Just one month after Elvis stepped in front of a movie camera, filming for love me tender was largely complete.
Before its release, however, studio executives had to deal with the difficult issue of the finale-clints death.
Surely Elvis couldn't be killed at the End of his screen debut? Audience screen tests eventually sealed clints fate-he dies, but makes a ghostly reappearance as the credits roll, singing love me tender.
New York city's paramount theater was the venue for the films opening night, on November 15, 1956, and the movie was released nationally a few days later.
It was a massive success. The EP went on sale soon after the movie opened and sold over half a million copies. By the year end, the single had sold five times that number.
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