Elvis Presley, the King of rock'n'roll, had a string of romantic liaisons with movie stars, beauty queens, and girls next door. Ahead of the release of a new Elvis biopic, we look at the women who left him all shook up.
One of Hollywood's biggest stars, Rita Moreno, was in an eight-year romance with Marlon Brando in the 1950s. When she found lingerie that was not hers at Brando's home, she went home to find a message from Elvis asking for a date. She agreed because "no one could possibly make Marlon more jealous." The pair dated, but it fizzled out. Rita wrote: "Whatever put the brakes on that famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point and that was it."
Gael Greene was a reporter aged 21 when she caught the randy singer's eye when he arrived for two shows in Detroit. She said: "Elvis came up to me, stuck his knee between my legs, and told me to come upstairs." She remembered thinking, "Oh my God, this is Elvis. I'm about to do it with Elvis!"
The King met singer and TV performer Anita Wood in 1957. Elvis persuaded her to rip up a seven-year Paramount movie deal by coming home with him to his Memphis estate, Graceland. Shortly after, he was drafted into the army and stationed in West Germany, where he met Priscilla, 14. For a year, Elvis stayed with Anita while secretly romancing Priscilla.
The only woman Elvis married, Priscilla was 14 and he was 24 when they met during his 1959 stint in the army in Germany. After several years of letter-writing and phone calls, her father finally allowed her to move into Graceland during her senior year of high school. The couple tied the knot in 1967 and their only child, Lisa Marie, was born a year later. But their marriage didn't last, partly because Presley no longer wanted to be intimate with his wife after she had a child. Infidelity on both sides led to their divorce in 1973.
Elvis met actress Tuesday Weld, 17, while making the 1961 musical-drama film Wild in the Country. Elvis's road manager, Joe Esposito, said in his memoirs: "Tuesday was a free spirit; she would never have put up with Elvis, who liked to control his women… Tuesday would never fall in with that programme." The chemistry between Elvis and his Viva Las Vegas co-star Ann-Margret was not confined to the screen. The 1964 film was the start of what the Swedish actress called "a very strong, intense relationship" which lasted almost two years, even though he was engaged to Priscilla at the time.
