Surviving Elvis Co-Stars

[John]

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Sexy body but I really do not like her face.

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[Colin B]

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[HillbillyCat]

Here's a nice promo shot from Tuesday Weld, who lives nowadays in Montauk NY (according to this site). I recently found out it's not for the movie "Wild In The Country" - as stated by EPSS - but for the movie "The Private Lives Of Adam And Eve (1960)".


(source: facebook)

[AndresVanKujik]

Here's a nice promo shot from Tuesday Weld, who lives nowadays in Montauk NY (according to this site). I recently found out it's not for the movie "Wild In The Country" - as stated by EPSS - but for the movie "The Private Lives Of Adam And Eve (1960)".


(source: facebook)

There are two reasons why I like that photograph.

[Colin B]

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She is strikingly good looking...

[HillbillyCat]

I'd like to know the story behind Teri Garr's autograph on this picture, and who titled it as Teri Garr in Easy Come, Easy Go?

Neither of those two ladies are Teri.
One is Elaine Beckett and the other is Pat Priest.

Here's Elaine's story from the great EIN website :

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/interview_E ... sy-Go.html

As far as I'm aware Teri wasn't in ECEG.

I reckon someone thought it was her & offered the photo for her to sign !

She then signed it, not realising it was a photo & a film she wasn't in !

I accepted it in good faith, & added it to my post, as she wasn't always credited with her little roles !

I wonder if it's this picture you were talking about back then? It is currently listed for $162 on historyforsale.com:
(source: https://www.historyforsale.com/teri-gar ... /dc294132#)

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If anyone is wondering who the third blonde girl in the EIN photo is, that's Shari Nims (who plays Mary, and is also known for her guest role in the "Star Trek" episode "The Apple"):
(source: https://www.elvisinfonet.com/interview_ ... sy-Go.html)

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Here's another picture of all three "surviving co-stars":
(source: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ ... ikini-orig)

1966 Easy Come Easy Go Elaine Beckett, Pat Priest and Shari Nims 002.jpg

And here is an excerpt from an interview startrek.com did with Shari Nims:

If our research is correct, you appeared with Elvis in Easy Come, Easy Go, in Star Trek, and then in an episode of The Wild Wild West. First, is that accurate? And, if so, why did you leave the business after those jobs?

Easy Come Easy Go was a first bit part. I spent a week on a boat on Catalina Island. Everyone got sea legs. Elvis was sweet, soft-spoken and very polite. He rowed me out in a dinghy to show me his compound. I didn't want to get out and meet his posse; not sure why. He was quite a bit older than I at that time and I was not star-struck. But he was sooo sweet. When we were in the boat, I had to lean in in order to hear him because he was so soft-spoken. I was so sad to learn of his struggles later on.

[...]

If someone is only going to have three Hollywood credits, she or he could do a lot worse than an Elvis movie and Star Trek. What does it mean to you to be connected with not one, but two pop culture phenomena: Elvis and Star Trek?

I am extremely grateful and happy to be a part of Star Trek, as well as meeting Elvis and the other various actors, and for the opportunities and jobs I was given. Not to mention, it was the most money I had ever received for a day’s work. Had I known then what I know now.
(source: https://intl.startrek.com/article/catch ... shari-nims)

[HillbillyCat]

No.7
Debra Paget - 84

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Debra Paget is a US actor and entertainer.
She is perhaps best known for her performance in The Ten Commandments [1956]
& she is currently the last surviving major actor from that film & is seen below with Edward G Robinson:
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She co-starred with Elvis in his first film Love Me Tender:
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And on the Milton Berle Show on 5th June, 1956 - seen here rehearsing:
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She performed a risque snake dance scene in The Indian Tomb [1959]:
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Today is her 89th birthday!

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[HillbillyCat]

No.50 -
Irene Tsu (> 78)

(Source: https://www.amazon.com/Irene-Original-A ... B07L9JLGNN)

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Adapted from Wikipedia:

Irene Tsu was born in Shanghai, China. The date of birth seems to be ambiguous: Several different dates can be found on the Internet: November 4, 1942 (glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com), April 5, 1943 (Wikipedia/en), November 4, 1944 (Wikipedia/de) and November 4, 1945 (IMDb & Wikipedia/fr). She herself stated in a 2014 interview that she was born in 1944.

She, her sister and her mother emigrated to Larchmont, New York in 1957. She attended Mamaroneck Elementary School in Mamaroneck, New York and studied ballet.

In early 1961 she won the Miss Chinatown beauty contest in San Francisco, according to the reporter she was 18 years old at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOqaqhpBXAs

She made her film debut as a teenage dancer in the film Flower Drum Song (1961). Two years later she got her first speaking role in Take Her, She's Mine (1963) starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee. To list a few other movies in which she can also be seen: Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966), Caprice (1967), The Green Berets (1968) and Airport 1975 (1974). She also made guest appearances on many popular TV series such as The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, Wonder Woman, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O, Trapper John, M.D., Star Trek: Voyager and Cold Case.

She dated Frank Sinatra for over two years - they met in Miami, Florida where she was filming the "Chevron Island" commercials as their "Wiki Wiki Girl".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZdAqiWbAew

(Source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/ ... 3ef487d946)

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And of course, she played Pua in Paradise Hawaiian Style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyYuXUKkDEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7OBbOaMO14

(Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/644718502885937236/)

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(Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059563/me ... 651659776/)

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(Source: https://www.pinterest.co.kr/pin/351632683385574211/)

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(Source: https://www.facebook.com/50004904672456 ... 126583096/)

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(Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/11610911531554807/)

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(Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/paradis-h ... 750470980/)

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Her autobiography is titled: "A Water Color Dream - The Many Lives Of Irene Tsu" (2020). To promote it, she was interviewed by Fox News in 2020 - excerptes below:

"It was the very first day on set and I was so nervous. [...] Everyone was having lunch and I really didn’t feel like eating because I was that nervous. So I decided to go take a nap and if I was needed on set, they would call me. I went to my trailer and the air conditioner wasn’t working. I was just hysterical -- really hysterical. I thought, ‘Oh no, this isn’t happening.’ You could only imagine how hot it was. And there was no one around because everyone was having lunch."

"I started walking around and I suddenly found this big hut. [...] I thought, ‘There must be an air conditioner there.’ All of a sudden, there was a hand stopping me. I immediately apologize without even looking up. And I was told, ‘That’s Elvis’ dressing room. You can’t just go in. I’m going to have to ask if you’re allowed.'"

At that moment, Tsu didn’t see Presley, but she was given the green light to hang out in his room. Upon entering, she immediately felt the relief of a running air conditioner and collapsed on a nearby couch.

Tsu said the man who initially stopped her suddenly rushed in.

"Elvis had told him I could stay for as long as I liked and not to worry about it. [...] So I fell asleep."

Tsu claimed that when she opened her eyes after a restful sleep, she saw Presley’s face closely staring right back at her.

“He was putting a cold compress on my face.” [...] "He thought I must have passed out or something."

The starlet admitted she was stunned.

“He was absolutely beautiful. I mean, people with great voices are attractive to me, but this was something else. I didn’t even know what to say because I was so shocked. And then he went, ‘Don’t worry about it. I just want you to feel good. Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat? Are you thirsty?’ I couldn’t even talk!”

“I was overwhelmed by everything I was experiencing. [...] He smelled like baby powder and milk. But he just kept insisting if I needed or wanted anything.”

After Presley left, Tsu eventually got up and stepped, outside where she saw Presley surrounded by his entourage.

“The Colonel [...] was there and he just gave me bad vibes immediately. [...] He was not a kind man.”

Tsu claimed she and Presley quickly became friends on set. At the time, the singer was fascinated by martial arts and he learned that Tsu knew Bruce Lee. But there was another reason they bonded easily.

“He was a Southern Baptist and my family was very Christian. [...] So we connected from that alone. He was very spiritual.”

Tsu stressed that they were never lovers. And while they became pals, their friendship would ultimately be brief.

“I remember the last time we spoke, we were hanging out in his trailer. [...] He just looked at me and said, ‘Keep that light burning baby.’ And that was it. I guess he lost his light. Couldn’t find his way home, you know? I truly feel he just worked himself to death. It was very tragic.”

Tsu said she still remembers her time with Presley fondly.

“He was filled with so much light. [...] He was very generous and caring. He was always surrounded by people wherever he went. But if you just sat down with him, he was simply a good friend.”
(Source: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/e ... tsu-memoir)

Today a vacation video was uploaded on her YouTube channel. It is dated April 5, 2023, what according to wikipedia would be her 80th birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IguNv7QsaZY

I'm glad to see she is still with us today!

[HillbillyCat]

Update for No.3
Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden is 92 today !

From Forbes' actual tribute article:
(Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman ... nnie-star/)

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[AndresVanKujik]

Update for No.3
Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden is 92 today !

From Forbes' actual tribute article:
(Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman ... nnie-star/)
1960-10 Flaming Star Promo Shot with Barbara Eden.jpg

And the day you posted this "Flaming Star" was on TV here in the UK. It has been shown several times on 5Select.

[John]

Update for No.3
Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden is 92 today !

From Forbes' actual tribute article:
(Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman ... nnie-star/)
1960-10 Flaming Star Promo Shot with Barbara Eden.jpg

And the day you posted this "Flaming Star" was on TV here in the UK. It has been shown several times on 5Select.

Was it the version Colin saw, or the one everyone else saw?

[Colin B]

And the day you posted this "Flaming Star" was on TV here in the UK.
It has been shown several times on 5Select.

Was it the version Colin saw, or the one everyone else saw?

Stop it.

Not my fault if everybody else here is too young to remember the uncut cinema version...

[HillbillyCat]

No.51 -
Nicole Jaffe (83)

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She played the cheeky and cheerful Betty Smith in "The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)", whose over-excited attempts at flirting with Walter Hale, played by Elvis, remain fruitless...

Adapted from Wikipedia:

Nicole Cowgill Jaffe was born on May 23, 1941 in Montreal, Canada. She is best known as the original voice actress for Velma in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1973. Until 2003, she occasionally stood in front of the microphone for spin-offs of the cartoon series.

Appearances in front of the camera, however, remained rare. She could only be seen in small supporting roles in the films "The Love Bug" (1968) and "Marlow" (1969). She also appeared as a guest in episodes of the television series "Room 2022" (1969/70) and "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors" (1971).

Incidentally, in the original trailer for "The Trouble With Girls" she is captioned with the wrong name:

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=710EGWfPckI)

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Joyce van Patten played the long-distance swimmer Maude in this movie... By the way: van Patten is also one of the "Surviving Co-Stars"! Just like Frank Welker (he played one of the college boys), who stood in front of the microphone with Jaffe for "Scooby Doo".

But back to Nicole!

According to an interview from 2011, she realized during the filming of "The Trouble With Girls" that she didn't really like acting:

I wasn’t very good and wasn’t interested in being good but I was interested in helping people that were good. Someone suggested I agent [which I did] and I loved it.
(Source: https://www.noblemania.com/2011/10/supe ... re_10.html)

She founded a very successful talent agency, sold it to the William Morris Agency in 1992 and worked for William Morris until 2013. She was one of the most influential agents in Hollywood - her clients include names such as John Travolta, Whitney Houston and Elijah Wood.

The following link contains a longer interview with her from 1976 about her job as an agent:
https://mediaburn.org/video/making-it-i ... od-raw-38/

She continues to be active in the charity sector, for example for the "High School Yearbook" cancer project:
http://hsyearbook.org/team/nicole-david/

The most recent thing I could find about her is a TikTok video from August 2023:
https://www.tiktok.com/@fannygrande5/vi ... 8444672299

I'm glad she is still with us today!
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Nicole Jaffe David!