Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)

Director:

Norman Taurog

Writers:

Dan Greenburg (novel)
Michael A. Hoey (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

23 October 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

Watch Elvis click with all these chicks!

Plot:

Greg Nolan meets Bernice, and loses both his job and his apartment. However, Bernice manages to get him a new apartment...

Plot Keywords:

Repetition In Title | Beautiful Woman | Based On Novel

Cast

Elvis Presley	...	Greg Nolan
Michele Carey	...	Bernice / Betty / Suzie / Alice
Rudy Vallee	...	Louis Penlow
Don Porter	...	Mike Lansdown
Dick Sargent	...	Harry Baby
Sterling Holloway	...	Milkman
Celeste Yarnall	...	Ellen
Eddie Hodges	...	Woodrow (the delivery boy)
Joan Shawlee	...	Robbie's mother
Mary Grover	...	Miss Selfridge
Emily Banks	...	RKC&P receptionist
Michael Keller	...	Art director
Merri Ashley	...	Secretary #1
Phyllis Davis	...	Secretary #2
Ursula Menzel	...	Perfume model

Also Known As:

Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:12 | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:Btl | USA:M (original rating) | USA:PG (re-rating) (1997)

Filming Locations:

Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

The film's working title was "Kiss My Firm, But Pliant Lips" (the title of the novel by Dan Greenburg upon which it was based).

Quotes:

Bernice: You know it's very difficult being a beautiful woman, men just never leave you alone.
Greg Nolan: You won't believe this, but I'm leaving you alone.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Elvis in the Movies (1990)

Soundtrack:

A Little Less Conversation

Elvis' strangest film starts out great,but second half weak

This must be Elvis' strangest film. It starts off in high gear, throws in a lot of mysterious twists, features a beautiful and funny co-star (Michele Carey--where are you? We need you back!), and has an intriguing soundtrack which doesn't sound remotely like anything else Elvis ever recorded--it even has a freak-out sequence, with the King singing a psychedelic song! I'm guessing that the creators of this film wanted to make a "swinging sixties" version of a screwball comedy, and they almost succeeded. For the first half, I thought I'd discovered a lost classic...or at least a lost camp classic! However, about mid-way through, the breakneck pace slows down, the weirdness goes away, and the rest of the film stumbles along like a mediocre sitcom. Still, no one could accuse this oddity of being a "formula" film, at least the first half. And this Elvis fan would much rather watch this or the equally quirky THE TROUBLE WITH GIRLS than watch GI BLUES or BLUE HAWAII. TCM showed this letterboxed, the way it should be seen, so you might want to wait a year or two until a DVD comes out...or at least until TCM has another Elvis festival and shows the letterboxed version at 3 a.m...rather than watch it panned and scanned. I think that anyone with the least interest in Elvis would enjoy watching this film, if only for the freakout sequence with the song "Edge of Reality."