Aside from being a Hollywood star himself, Elvis Presley was a huge movie fan who had 14 TVs set up around Graceland. The King would obsess over certain films and rewatch them endlessly ...
The Catholic Church takes up the criticism in its weekly organ in a piece headlined "Beware Elvis Presley ... orchestrated by Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in order to provoke publicity.
[And the films] were fun and light. It complemented the first residencies that any artist was doing in Las Vegas… Elvis, I think, was one of the first people to do that." WATCH: ELVIS PRESLEY ...