Tuesday Weld had a wild unconventional reputation. To compare, maybe we could say sort of like the actress Drew Barrymore had early on; there were other similarities including growing up way too fast. She looked innocent and sexy and she had a quality to her of being very modern for the times. Elvis and his friends liked that quality in women.
I know a lot of information on the net says Tuesday and Elvis had an off screen romance but not to my knowledge. Let's just say that Tuesday showed up with Gary Lockwood for football games and that more than one member of the Entourage was interested in her, meaning, if you have read what I've said about Elvis and his policy about women, anything that happened between Elvis and Tuesday wasn't serious. And, the guys knew this because they didn't have to be hands-off, but that doesn't mean they got anywhere with her.
Gary would have been too respected by all of us to do that!
Now we looked at a lot of sites that mention Tuesday and declined to link to any of them. Let's say that she had longevity as an actress that was perhaps unexpected of someone early on assigned to be a "sex kitten," and at the same time her talent was rarely fully exposed in the roles she took. Like a lot of women who were as pretty as Tuesday she wasn't thought to be especially smart - but she was.
Earlier in this blog I talked about what it was to ever be taken seriously as an actor. Tuesday stayed in there and her nominations for an Emmy and an Acadamy Award recognized her talent.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
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