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Elvis and the Beauty Queen

22 %|Mar 1, 1981|Drama, Music, TV Movie

Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.

Featured Crew

Gus Trikonis
Director
Julia Cameron
Writer
David Gerber
Executive Producer
Allyn Ferguson
Music
Thomas Del Ruth
Director of Photography
Fred A. Chulack
Editor
Michael Baugh
Production Design
Raphael Bretton
Set Decoration

Cast

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Don Johnson
Elvis Presley
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Stephanie Zimbalist
Linda Thompson
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Ann Dusenberry
Jeannie LeMay
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Rick Lenz
David Briggs (as Richard Lenz)
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Ann Wedgeworth
Aunt Betty
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Richard Herd
Sanford Thompson
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Jay W. MacIntosh
Marge Thompson
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Edward Edwards
Sam Thompson
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John Crawford
Vernon Presley
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Darrell Fetty
Pete Moore
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Bobbi Jordan
Pregnant Woman
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Tony Giorgio
Mob Figure
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Andre Tayir
Choreographer
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Cathy Foy
Miss Hawaii
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Ronnie McDowell
Elvis Presley (singing voice)