He's played a water ski instructor, a ghetto doctor, a lifeguard, an underwater demolitions expert, a tuna fisherman and on at least three occasions, a race car driver so why shouldn't Elvis get to add another occupational hazard to his list of screen characters? In It Happened at the World's Fair (1963), he plays a freelance charter airplane pilot named Mike Edwards who travels to Seattle with his buddy Danny (Gary Lockwood) to check out the action. In no time flat, Danny's gambling debts force the duo to relinquish their plane and come up with another game plan - smuggling. Of course, the plot is secondary to the sights and sounds of the World's Fair. After all, who can compete with the Space Needle, the Skyride, the "Dream Car" exhibit, and the Floating City of Tomorrow? Elvis, that's who. He serenades his fans with "Cotton Candy Land," "Happy Ending," and "I'm Falling in Love Tonight." He also shares a duet - "How Would You Like to Be" - with tiny Vicky Tiu in her screen debut as Sue-Ling and if that number doesn't give you diabetes, nothing will.
› During the filming of It Happened at the World's Fair in Seattle, MGM executives took extra security precautions and made sure the king was surrounded at all times off-camera by a group of Pinkerton plainclothes detectives.
› Recognize that little boy who kicks Elvis in the film? Yes, that's Kurt Russell in his first film appearance. His first screen role, however, was in the television series “Sugarfoot.” Russell would go on to play the Tupelo wonderboy in John Carpenter's made-for-TV biopic, Elvis in 1979.
› It Happened at the World’s Fair was Elvis’s most expensive movie to date and included an extensive wardrobe of ten suits, four sports jackets, thirty shirts, two cashmere coats, fifteen pairs of slacks and countless ties.
› Elvis’s co-star in the film, Gary Lockwood began his film career as John Yusolfsky but was encouraged to change it to his current name after director Josh Logan suggested it during the making of Tall Story (1960). Lockwood had already appeared with Elvis in Wild in the Country in 1961 and is probably best known for his role as the ill-fated astronaut Frank in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
› Some of the initial working titles for It Happened at the World’s Fair were Mister, Will You Marry Me, Take Me Out to the Fair and Take Me to the Fair.
› The only song from the film to crack the top forty was the tune, “One Broken Heart for Sale,” which peaked at number twenty-one. The soundtrack LP remained on the charts for seventeen weeks and peaked at number fifteen.
› The World’s Fair depicted in It Happened at the World’s Fair was more famously known as the Century 21 Exposition and was held from April 21, 1962 to October 21, 1962. Seattle’s famous Space Needle and the Alweg monorail were constructed for the event and have since become popular tourist attractions.
› Seattle officials originally had wanted to premiere the World’s Fair in 1955 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition but the project was too ambitious to complete in time.
› Among the many venues featured at the fair were the World of Commerce and Industry (which included domestic and international exhibits such as a 40 foot fountain made to resemble a hydroelectric dam), Boulevards of the World (a shopping area), Gayway (a small amusement park that was later renamed the Fun Forest), and the World of Science which featured a Spacearium that offered a simulated voyage through the Milky Way and beyond.
› The midway attraction World of Entertainment showcased numerous performers, dance troupes and specialty acts such as blues singer Josh White, pianist Victor Borge, folk singer Theodore Bikel, Dunninger the Mentalist, the New York City Ballet, the Bayanihan Dancers of the Philippines, conductor Igor Stravinsky, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans’s Western Show, Hal Holbrook’s one-man Mark Twain show, and in Show Street, the adult entertainment section of the fair, Sid and Marty Krofft presented an adults-only puppet show.
STATE FAIR (1945)
Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews star in a musical romance about a farm family’s adventures at the Iowa state fair. The disc also includes the 1962 musical remake starring Ann-Margret and Pat Boone.
CATCH US IF YOU CAN (1964)
In the wake of The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night," fellow Britpop combo The Dave Clark Five hit the big screen with this bouncy musical in which pop singer/film stuntman Clark and his bandmates leave Swinging London behind for a remote island getaway.
OVERBOARD (1989)
When snooty socialite Goldie Hawn takes a tumble off her yacht and wakes up with amnesia, grubby carpenter Kurt Russell convinces her they're married and takes her home to meet their four "children" in this modern day screwball comedy.
FOLLOW THAT DREAM (1962)
Backwoods crooner Elvis Presley and his father set up housekeeping with three ophan kids on unclaimed government land in Florida in this lighthearted musical drama featuring several songs.
It Happened at the World's Fair - (Original Trailer)
It Happened at the World's Fair -- (Movie Cip) One Broken Heart
It Happened at the World's Fair -- (Movie Clip) Open, Beyond the Bend
It Happened at the World's Fair -- (Movie Clip) Relax
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› The World’s Fair depicted in
