Sixty years in the past on July 15, 1963, filming started on Viva Las Vegas and Elvis Presley began one of many defining relationships of his life.
He was already notorious for pursuing his main women, however this affair can be like no different, he had met his match.
Priscilla Beaulieu (later Presley) waited anxiously again at dwelling. They had began courting in Germany in September 1959, when she was simply 14, however she had solely simply moved completely into Graceland in May 1963.
Exotic international red-head Ann-Margret was the most popular property in Hollywood and when phrase of the affair reached Priscilla, she threw an enormous vase in opposition to the wall.
The Swedish star remained in Elvis' life till the tip. Loved by his father Vernon, she was invited to The King's funeral and spoke powerfully of him and the ache of shedding him.
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Elvis and Ann Margret had a passionate Viva Las Vegas affair (Image: GETTY)
Ann Margret turned an prompt intercourse image (Image: GETTY)
In her memoir, she confessed the ache of remembering their love: "It was extremely difficult for me to write and it's even harder for me to talk about.
"There's been a lot, for some cause, unfavourable conditions surrounding his title that I needed to point out the person that I knew – beneficiant, loving, humorous, gifted, gifted – and solely present full respect."
However, she has also spoken of their electrifying connection: "We each felt a present, an electrical energy that went straight via us. It would grow to be a pressure we could not management...
"Little did we know we shared a devil within. We were quiet, polite, careful. But I knew what was going to happen once we got to know each other. Elvis did, too."
Elvis dancing with Ann Margret in Viva Las Vegas (Image: GETTY)
Elvis was surprised and could not perceive the facility of it till one of many Memphis Mafia merely identified "She's the female you."
Ann-Margret did not simply have magnificence and display screen presence, she was a gifted singer and dancer. Already making a splash after State Fair, she turned an enormous star in 1963's Bye, Bye, Birdie. The movie was really primarily based on Elvis leaving early stardom behind for army service, and likewise featured Dick Van Dyke's silver display screen debut.
She was such sizzling property that she turned the one co-star to share equal billing with Elvis and excitingly proved to be his match off-screen.
Elvis and Ann Margret on the Viva Las Vegas set (Image: GETTY)
Ann Margret stated: "We experienced music in the same visceral way. Music ignited a fiery pent-up passion inside Elvis and inside me. It was an odd, embarrassing, funny, inspiring, and wonderful sensation.
"We checked out one another transfer and noticed digital mirror photographs.
“When Elvis thrust his pelvis, mine slammed forward, too. When his shoulder dropped, I was down there with him. When he whirled, I was already on my heel.”
This was dynamite on display screen and the pair couldn't include their ardour off display screen both.
Ann Margret cherished the color pink (Image: GETTY)
At non-public events, whereas Priscilla stewed again at Graceland, their attraction bubbled over.
They would cavort collectively, pretending to be cats and sexily dancing throughout the ground with Elvis teasing, "You've got me running," and Ann-Margret replying, "You've got me hiding."
They shared a love of motorbikes, Elvis referred to as her Thumper (and she or he would use the code title for years each time she referred to as Graceland) and she or he referred to as him EP.
Hot pink was her signature color and Elvis purchased her a spherical pink mattress and despatched her lavish preparations of pink flowers.
Ann Margret in a pink costume (Image: GETTY)
Viva Las Vegas was launched in March 1964 and Ann-Margret later revealed Elvis had needed to marry her: "his wish was that we could stay together." But the star was underneath immense strain from his supervisor and public opinion to marry his long-term girlfriend, Priscilla.
However, when the UK press began reporting that they have been planning to marry, Elvis accused Ann-Margret of leaking the story, which she denied.
He was underneath immense strain to marry Priscilla from supervisor Colonel Parker and Priscilla's dad and mom, all of whom additionally made it clear the potential profession scandal Elvis might face associated to her age once they had began and the very fact he had taken a minor throughout state traces with out permission from her dad and mom.
Elvis Ann Margret VIva Las Vegas kiss (Image: GETTY)
Elvis ended the affair however their love for one another remained and he continued to ship her guitar-shaped pink flower preparations in later years each time she opened a brand new present in Las Vegas.
In reality, when she opened on the Hilton on August 15, 1977, for the primary time in 10 years, no flowers got here and she or he later admitted she instantly knew one thing was flawed.
Worried, the subsequent day, Ann-Margret referred to as Graceland and discovered Elvis had died, earlier than the news was launched to the press.
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