I watched the movie Viva Las Vegas. This movie stars Elvis Presley (Harum Scarum), Ann-Margret (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cesare Danova (Gidget Goes To Rome).
A race car driver preparing for the Grand Prix, wiles his time in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine. Soon, he strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman.
I give this movie 3 out of 5 stars.
This is one of my favorite Elvis movies.
Fun Facts:
- Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret started dating during pre-production but split up soon after filming.
- This is the shortest movie of Elvis's career.
- Over the decades, this film's title tune has become the "official/unofficial" theme song for the city of Las Vegas.
- Only 6 of the multiple casinos featured in the opening sequence are still in operation today.
- Unlike the female leads in his other movies, Ann-Margaret got billing of equal size with Elvis for this film.
- When the wedding scene was filmed, many tabloid magazines at the time published photos of the "wedding" and suggested that Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret really had gotten married.