Elvis Blue Hawaii co-star Angela Lansbury thought King ‘caring and candy’ on set

Blue Hawaii was considered one of Elvis Presley’s post-army films of the early sixties alongside GI Blues, each of that are on BBC 2 this afternoon.

The musical, which featured his hit music Can’t Help Falling in Love, noticed The King play Chadwick Gates, who returned house to the Pacific US islands after serving within the armed forces.

Incredibly, Elvis’ mom Sarah Lee Gates was performed by Angela Lansbury, regardless of being simply 9 years older than him.

In an unearthed interview from a number of years in the past, the late Dame shared her reminiscences of working with Elvis on Blue Hawaii.

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In the video under, the Hollywood star who acquired her first Oscar nomination in 1944, stated: “Well obviously I was awed by being in the presence, but he was an awfully nice young man in those days. He always was a wonderfully nice young man, a very caring person. He had terrible problems of a very personal nature, but in those days he’d just come out of the army.”

Remembering Elvis being in higher form than he was in his later years, Lansbury stated: “He was fit, he was slender and he was top of his form. And he couldn’t have been nicer to me. We had a lovely time, it was a wonderful location. We were on Kauai in the Hawaiian islands. I’ll never forget it, it was really wonderful.”

Asked if she spent a lot time hanging out on set with The King, Lansbury stated: “Yes, we sat around and I had some wonderful scenes with the man who played my husband [Roland Winters] and the three of us together. And she was such a funny character! Her whole reaction to her son who she didn’t understand at all. [Elvis] loved it, he thought it was terribly funny. He was very sweet.”

Ahead of taking pictures Blue Hawaii in 1961, Elvis was flown out to the islands early to carry out a profit present. During the assault on Pearl Harbour 20 years beforehand, the USS Arizona battleship was sunk with 1177 shedding their lives.

To this present day the ship stays submerged with a memorial excessive that Elvis’ live performance helped elevate cash for. The King’s ticket gross sales made $64,000 in direction of the challenge and the efficiency befell on March 25, 1961.