(275) AHNA CAPRI

I met Ahna Capri around town, at Elvis', and in Pat Boone's office. (She was in a movie with him!)

There were so many beautiful women with great personalities and Ahna was one of those. She also had a good sense of humor about herself.

Christine White, Anne Helm, and Tuesday Weld; this generation of actresses were hard working, often hired actresses, who started in television and made films too.

Some of them were famous in their time. By that I mean they were making it into the fan magazines early in their careers and then as the years went by they began to do "character" roles.

Ahna's IMDB database resume is our link here: you'll wonder if you haven't seen her work on Baretta with Robert Blake or another show.

(130) TUESDAY WELD INGENUE

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.

(129) WILD IN THE COUNTRY WITH ELVIS

Also in 1961 Elvis made the film "Wild In The Country." The script was based on a novel by the famous playright Clifford Odets, "The Lost Country."

Link above to the IMDb database for Wild In The Country

(We've posted links to a number of films though this database. It's not complete by any means and is deficit photos of many actors and actresses but one of the best movie databases going on the Internet. We like the link feature which you can use to follow the careers.)

Here's a YouTube presentation of Elvis singing to Tuesday Weld's character in the film, the song "In My Way."

Elvis had numerous co-stars on this film but the people I remember seeing socially with Elvis and his friends were Tuesday Weld, Gary Lockwood, and Christina Crawford.

Tuesday and Gary were dating for a while so they were a couple, and they showed up to play football (Gary had started out as a pro football player, Tuesday was on the side lines cheering Elvis' team on.) To my knowledge Elvis was not involved romantically with any of his co-stars on this film.