Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla falls in love - with her hairdresser". Newspapers.com. August 29, 1976. Presley began studying acting while she was married to Elvis, and after a few TV appearances, she joined the cast of the hugely popular night-time soap opera Dallas in 1983. The next year, she won a Soap Opera Digest Award for her role as Jenna Wade Krebbs. Presley left the show after five seasons. Her journey with Elvis began when she was just 14 years old, meeting him at a party during his military service in Germany. Despite early opposition from her parents, their relationship flourished leading to their eventual marriage. Even after their divorce, they remained close friends until Elvis's death. Campione, Katie (January 2021). "Liam Neeson Says He Will Soon Retire from Action Movies: 'There's a Couple in the Pipeline' ". People . Retrieved February 8, 2022.

But as the title makes clear, this is not his story. Priscilla stays true to the facts, as its namesake remembers them, to offer an absorbing look at one of pop culture’s most famous couples. How did Elvis meet Priscilla? Presley then starred in three Naked Gun movies with Leslie Nielsen between 1988 and 1994. Also in 1988, she produced a TV movie based on her best-selling memoir Elvis and Me.

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Presley had originally been offered a role as one of the angels on Charlie's Angels. She turned down the role because she disliked the show. [82] Presley made her television debut as co-host of Those Amazing Animals in 1980. [71] [83] In 1983, she had her first professional acting role on a season 2 episode of The Fall Guy titled "Manhunter". [18] She then went on to play in a television film titled Love is Forever, starring alongside Michael Landon. [84] Although she was treated well by most of the cast and crew, and her acting was praised by several of her co-stars, she found Landon difficult to work with on set. After the television film aired, Presley took on the role of Jenna Wade in the soap opera Dallas. As the third actor portraying Jenna, she played the role for the longest of the three. In 1988 after five years, Presley left the show. Also during her tenure on the series, she was offered the role of Bond girl Stacey Sutton in A View to a Kill (1985), but due to scheduling conflicts, she had to decline the role. [85] Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)". Metacritic. CBS Interactive . Retrieved August 3, 2019. An empty, dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film, or that the character's official presence has not yet been confirmed. Russo, Gus (December 12, 2008). Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781596918986 . Retrieved July 14, 2023– via Google Books. In her book and in other public forums, Priscilla, perpetuating the myth, would say that her first night of marriage in the upstairs master bedroom of the Palm Springs house was the moment when she lost her virginity – conveniently overlooking her previous sexual relationships with ... Tommy Stewart, Peter von Wechmar, Jamie Lindberg, and possibly Ron Tapp." Yet "Priscilla's tale of being a virgin bride until her wedding night, after having lived with Elvis for over four years, was given a patina of credibility by the birth of Lisa Marie, uncannily, nine months later." See Finstad, p. 211.

For much of his career, Elvis took sleeping pills and diet pills, but Priscilla writes that his addiction worsened in the years before his death when he started taking more “powerful, unnecessary prescribed drugs to raise his spirits and ward off boredom.” But there was also a period in his life with Priscilla when he was “seeking a higher state of consciousness,” dabbling in psychedelics. In Elvis and Me, she describes a LSD trip in which she “found [herself] in Elvis’s huge walk-in closet, purring like a kitten.” This freak-out inspires one of the funniest moments in Priscilla — and is by far the trippiest scene in any Sofia Coppola film. Did Elvis take up with a spiritual guru? Soon after, Priscilla found out that she was pregnant. She was upset at such an early pregnancy, certain that it would destroy the closeness she had finally found with Elvis. [31] She had asked him, earlier, if she could take birth control pills, but Elvis had insisted they were not perfected yet. She considered an abortion and even discussed it with Elvis, at one point, but both decided they could not live with themselves if they had gone through with it. Their only child, Lisa Marie, was born exactly nine months after their wedding, on February 1, 1968. [31]

Oppenheimer, Jerry (September 19, 2017). The Kardashians: An American Drama. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 9781250087164 . Retrieved July 14, 2023– via Google Books.

She starred alongside Leslie Neilsen in three Naked Gun films. Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, and Navarone Garibaldi were also Her acquaintances.Obituary for Thomas David BEAULIEU, 1962-2013". Los Angeles Times. February 17, 2013. p.32 . Retrieved July 14, 2023– via Newspapers.com. Throughout Coppola’s movie, Priscilla wants to believe Elvis when he tells her the rumors of his affairs with countless Hollywood starlets, including Nancy Sinatra, are not true. But when she sees a magazine photo spread of Elvis and his Viva Las Vegas co-star Ann-Marget looking rather cozy, she can no longer ignore the gossip.