Tickle Me (Allied Artists) (1965)

IT’S ALL OVER OR NOT AT ALL Elvis Presley, currently cavorting in Allied Artists’ “Tickle Me,” at WEEE. Sis seo elegy alae theatre, gratefully attributes his success to natural rhythm. “You either have it or you don’t have it,” he says, “and if you have it, you have it all over.” Watching Elvis listen to a record is to see what he means. Though he is sitting in a chair, his whole body is visibly alive with the beat of the music. But Sterling Smith, “still” photographer on “Tickle Me,’ contends there doesn’t even have to be any music that any one @lse can hear. “Elvis,” he declares, “carries the beat with him. He’s moving with it all the time. And the only way to photograph him is with a fast lens —or you get a blur.” The star sings nine songs and reprises two of them in “Tickle Me,” which teams him romantically with Jocelyn Lane. IT’S ALL HERE! EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET YOU THAT EXTRA’ SPACE! HEY GALS! ELVIS IS LOOKING! Elvis Presley wants to get married. “I haven’t found the right girl yet, that’s all,” shrugged Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor, currently starTIN GEatethen cn ccs theatre in Allied Artists “Tickle Me.” “But when I do get married, it will be for just that one time. That’s why I’ve got to be sure. So right now I’m looking real hard. I want to get married and have a family. Hollywood has linked Elvis with half a dozen girls, including AnnMargaret and Juliet Prowse, and his home town of Memphis has linked him with local beauties. His current romance, as reported by the columnists, is with Jocelyn Lane, the petite new glamour import from England, who plays opposite him in “Tickle Me.” An amateur astrologer, the tawny haired nymphet whose features resemble Brigitte Bardot’s doesn’t want to get married, though. “I’m having too much fun,” she says. Elvis and Jocelyn are teamed as singing wrangler and physical instructor, respectively, on an exclusive dude ranch in “Tickle Me,” which co-stars Julie Adams, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders and Bill Williams. Norman Taurog directed for producer Ben Schwalb. WORKING ON A BEAUTY DUDE RANCH te TM-3A Elvis Presley stars as a singing, swinging wrangler on a beauty spa dude ranch handily stocked with girls in Allied Artists “Tickle Me,” a romantic comedy in color and Panavision, co-starring Julie Adams, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders, Bill Williams and, in the feminie romantic role, English nymphet Jocelyn Lane. Norman Taurog directed for producer Ben Schwalb. After Darts, Bowling —=Then Women! Jocelyn Lane, the tawny English girl who won the romantic role opposite Elvis Presley in Allied Artists “Tickle Me,’ now at the ..«....... theatre, is sorry but she doesn’t like English men. “T think it’s because English men really don’t like women much,” she explains. “They’re polite and all that, and they can be very gallant at times, but I’m sure that in their secret opinion women rank somewhere after darts and bowling. “Tl take American men any time.” Equipped with a 36-20-36 figure, a satin tan, silken hair falling to her shoulders, and features reminiscent of Brigitte Bardot’s, Jocelyn became one of Hollywood’s most envied glamour girls when producer Ben Schwalb and director Norman Taurog cast her vis-a-vis as physical instructor to the patrons of an exclusive beauty-spa dude ranch in “Tickle Me,” a widescreen color film also co-starring Julie Adams, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders and Bill Williams. ELVIS MEETS BRITAIN'S “B.B.” TM-2A_ English nymphet, Jocelyn Lane has the feminine romantic lead opposite Elvis Presley in his newest film “Tickle Me;” an Allied Artists release, which stars Elvis as a singing, swinging wrangler on a beauty spa dude ranch handily stocked with girls. Film was produced by Ben Schwalb and directed by Norman Taurog. RESPECT FOR HIS ELDERS “Mr. Taurog?” inuired the young man, looking through the office doorway. “Come right in, Mr. Presley.” “Please call me Elvis, sir.” “Fine. And just call me Norman.” “T’m sorry, but I couldn’t do that, Mr. Taurog. “Why not?” “Well, I was brought up to call any man who’s older than I am ‘mister,’ and that’s the way it’s got to be. It was the first meeting between Elvis Presley and the veteran director who guided him through “Tickle Me,” the Allied Artists tunefilm comTTC Ae to thescne.: Theatre. It happened five pictures ago and the two have become good friends, but it’s still “Elvis” and “Mr. Taurog.” Even the workmen on the set are “mister” or “sir” to the star if he’s their junior. “It’s not an act,” Taurog explains. “Elvis'is one of the friendliest and warmest young men I know, but that respect for his elders is in-bred in him. In fact if those legions of young fans around the world who practically worship him would try to emulate his conduct, this world would be a whole lot better place. And just print that, will you?” So here it is. The idol of the bobby-sox millions plays a singing, swinging broncobuster in “Tickle Me,” a wide-screen color production which has England’s Jocelyn Lane in the feminine romantic role. Julie Adams, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders and Bill Williams costar. BEST OF ELVIS IN ‘TICKLE ME’ The globe-girdling young fans of Elvis Presley themselves chose the songs he sings in Allied Artists’ “Tickle Me,” which is scheduled to open at the theatre on Popular demand customarily calls forth ‘single’ records of hits that the star has recorded only in RCAVictor album collections. Many of them have taken their places among his dozens of “golden records,” cocalled because they have topped the million mark in individual sales. Now nine such songs for which the “single” demand has been particularly heavy come out together in a movie instead. They constitute the recent “best of Elvis,’ with the star eeceevne LEICALIC OL «ee eneve doing them visually for the first time in the physical style that is half his appeal and that is completely lost in sound-only renditions. They are: “Night Rider,’ “I’m Yours,” “I Feel I’ve Known You Forever,” “It’s a Long, Lonely Highway,” “It Feels So Right,” “Dirty, Dirty Feeling,” “Put The Blame On Me,” “Easy Question,” and “Slowly But Surely.” Elvis plays a rambling rodeo rider who becomes a singing wrangler on an expensively beauty-spa dude ranch catering to wealthy women in the wide-screen color film. Julie Adams plays the beautiful sophisticate who owns the spread, with the feminine romantic role opposite the star falling to English glamour girl, Joselyn Lane. Norman Taurog directed for producer Ben Schwalb, with Jack Mullaney, of TV’s “My Living Doll” series; Merry Anders and Bill Wil liams also co-starred. NOW A SPLIT LEVEL GARAGE Jack Mallaney, co-starred as Elvis Presley’s two-left-footed pal in “Tickle*Me;? now at the... ss... theatre, took the first check he received for working in the Allied Arists production znd made two down payments, one on a $7,000 foreign car, the other on a four-car garage. Then he moved into the garage. The car lives in the driveway. But Mullaney, featured in TV’s “My Living Doll” series, has converted the garage into a miniature showplace, liv ing-dining room at ground level, bed room three steps up. “I’ve got,” he boasts, “the only split-level garage in Hollywood.” He explained that he got tired of apartment living. “All the apartments in town look pretty much the same in their price ranges,” he says. “At least ‘Mullaney Mews’ is different.” He plays the handyman on an exclusive beauty-spa dude ranch in “Tickle Me,” with Elvis as singing wrangler and Jocelyn Lane in the feminine romantic role. Julie Adams, Merry Anders, and Bill Williams also co-star. TM-2B Jean Ingram appears to have the upper hand with Elvis Presley while Joceyn Lane is the curious bystander in this scene from Allied Artists ‘“Tickle Me,” a romantic comedy in color and Panavision, which stars Elvis as a singing, swinging wrangler on a beauty spa dude ranch handily stocked with girls. Film was produced by Ben Schwalb and directed by Norman Taurog.