5th October 1956, Friday

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Post Reply
Graeme
Site Admin
Posts: 9463
Joined: Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:34 pm
Been thanked: 57 times

5th October 1956, Friday

Post by Graeme » Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:20 pm

Day number 7942Site Date Map
Yesterday << 5th October 1956, Friday >> Tomorrow
      
Billboard Magazine staff award Elvis with a triple Crown award for the single Don't Be Cruel which topped all three sales charts, Pop, Country and RnB at the 20th Century Fox commissary. Robert Wagner is on Elvis' right, followed by Gilligans Island star Alan Hale jr. Is that Brian Dennehy sitting out front looking the same in 1956 as he did in 1986?
19561005_01.jpg
19561005_02.jpg

Private Presley
Posts: 1237
Joined: Mon Apr 06, 2020 9:30 pm
Has thanked: 201 times
Been thanked: 1129 times

Re: 5th October 1956, Friday

Post by Private Presley » Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:09 pm

Since Graeme is no longer around, was he referring to the left photo? If so, that burly fellow sitting in front is Alan Hale Jr.

Alan
Site Admin
Posts: 1380
Joined: Wed Apr 05, 2017 2:30 pm
Has thanked: 1108 times
Been thanked: 596 times

Re: 5th October 1956, Friday

Post by Alan » Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:02 pm

Private Presley wrote:
Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:09 pm
Since Graeme is no longer around, was he referring to the left photo? If so, that burly fellow sitting in front is Alan Hale Jr.
Yeah, I guess he was. I thought it was Brian, but that's the art of suggestion. But he's already referred to Alan Hale Jr.
I admit he didn't say it was Brian he just asked the question - but that might have been a joke, just meaning that is looked like Brian from 1986 had been planted in a photo from 30 years earlier.

I just believed it :oops:

Edit: No one else in the world has fallen for it either. There is no connection whatsoever on the www between Elvis and Brian Dennehy according to google.
Bloody sod lol it was a bloody joke.
I feel a right muppet.
I think I've repeated it in other places - mind you, no one I recall pulled me up on it. :D
15562days.com - Build it and they will come...

User avatar
ColinB
Posts: 534
Joined: Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:13 pm
Location: UK
Has thanked: 1034 times
Been thanked: 325 times

Re: 5th October 1956, Friday

Post by ColinB » Sat Apr 24, 2021 4:19 pm

The man on the front-right of the first photo is Alan Hale.

He does look a lot like the Brian Dennehy of more recent times !

Must have been Graeme's little joke !

Brian died last year.
Brian Dennehy.JPG
Brian Dennehy
"I don't sound like nobody !" - Elvis 1953

Private Presley
Posts: 1237
Joined: Mon Apr 06, 2020 9:30 pm
Has thanked: 201 times
Been thanked: 1129 times

Re: 5th October 1956, Friday

Post by Private Presley » Wed Oct 06, 2021 2:42 am

Marie Parker, tom, Elvis and Billboard execs
      
1956 Oct 5_Billboard Triple Crown Award 01.jpg
1956 Oct 5_Billboard Triple Crown Award 02.jpg
1956 Oct 5_Billboard Triple Crown Award 03.jpg
1956 Oct 5_Billboard Triple Crown Award 04.jpg
Movie director Nicholas Ray, 2nd fr left, Robert Wagner and Aln Hale Jr on the foreground
      
1956 Oct 5_Billboard Triple Crown Award 05.jpg

Alan
Site Admin
Posts: 1380
Joined: Wed Apr 05, 2017 2:30 pm
Has thanked: 1108 times
Been thanked: 596 times

Re: 5th October 1956, Friday

Post by Alan » Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:37 pm




1956_oct_05_01.jpg
Buddy Adler, head of production at
Twentieth Century-Fox with Elvis.
1956_oct_05_02.jpg
Buddy Adler with Elvis and Parker
      
Buddy Adler: It sounds incredible, but Love Me Tender did more in its first week west of the Mississippi than did The Robe (1953), one
of our biggest money-makers to date. After the first week it slackened off considerably. Even so it will show a very handsome profit.
      


      
BONNIE BRAJEVIEH: It was
at Twentieth Century-Fox Studios
that I met Elvis, on October 5,
1956, the day he finished filming
his first picture, Love Me Tender. I
was frightened and worried; didn’t
know what to expect.

I was trying so hard not to believe
all the awful things I had read
about him, and five minutes after
I had met and talked with him 1
realized that he was exactly what
I had hoped he would be and so
much more. We had our pictures
taken and talked a little longer.
And as | said goodbye to him he
kissed me very softly.

A month later I received a phone
call from Mr. Roy Croft, Elvis’
press agent while at 20th who had
introduced us. He told me I was
chosen to dedicate a giant 20-feet
picture of Elvis at the Los Angeles
theater before the release of Love
Me Tender.

A week later,* I found myself in
the lobby of the theater behind a
microphone giving a speech and
pulling the curtain from a giant
picture, with flash bulbs flashing,
girls screaming. I was so thrilled
and pleased I thought, “If I never
see Elvis again I can’t complain.”

* It was not a week later but actually
November 21, 1956.
1956_oct_05_03.jpg
1956_oct_05_04.jpg
1956_oct_05_05.jpg
1956_oct_05_06.jpg
1956_oct_05_07.jpg
1956_oct_05_08.jpg
      


1956_oct_05_10.jpg
L-R Band leader Lester Lanin, Elvis, and composer / arranger Victor Young. Just over a month after this photo was taken, Victor
Young travelled to Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and died of a heart attack at his home on November 10, 1956.
      


15562days.com - Build it and they will come...

Post Reply

Return to “October 1956”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest