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Elvis and the Beauty Queen

  • 1981
  • TMDB 3.9/10
  • 1h 40m

Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.

Overview

Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.

Cast

  • Don JohnsonElvis Presley
  • Stephanie ZimbalistLinda Thompson
  • Ann DusenberryJeannie LeMay
  • Rick LenzDavid Briggs
  • Ann WedgeworthAunt Betty
  • Richard HerdSanford Thompson
  • Jay W. MacIntoshMarge Thompson
  • Ruta LeeSu-Su

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