Live a Little, Love a Little
| Live A Little, Love A Little | |
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| Directed by | Norman Taurog |
| Produced by | Douglas Laurence |
| Screenplay by | Michael A. Hoey |
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Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips by Dan Greenburg |
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| Music by | Billy Strange |
| Cinematography | Fred J. Koenekamp |
| Edited by | John McSweeney, Jr. |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Live A Little, Love A Little is a 1968 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was directed by Norman Taurog, who had directed several previous Presley films. This was to be Taurog's final film. (Shortly thereafter, he went blind.) The film introduced the song "A Little Less Conversation"; an alternate take of which would form the basis of a remix that returned Presley to international music sales charts in 2002. This film had Presley sharing the screen with another legendary singing idol, Rudy Vallee, whose career dated to the 1920s. But Vallee, then in his late 60s, did not sing in this movie.
Greg Nolan (Elvis) is a newspaper photographer who lives a carefree life — that is, until he encounters an eccentric, lovelorn woman named Bernice (Michele Carey) on the beach. Bernice assumes different names and personalities whenever the mood hits her. (She introduces herself to Greg as "Alice" but she's known to the delivery boy as "Susie" and to the milkman as "Betty.")
After having her Great Dane dog, Albert (which was reportedly Presley's real-life dog Brutus, although Priscilla Presley has stated that it was a trained dog used for the film), chase Greg into the water when he insults her after a kiss, Bernice invites him to stay at her beachfront home. She later manages to make him lose his job and apartment after drugging him, which leaves him in a deep sleep for days.
However, Bernice also manages to find Greg another home. He wants to repay her so he gets two full-time photographer jobs: one for a Playboy-like magazine owned by Mike Lansdown (Don Porter), the other for a very conservative advertising firm co-owned by Mr. Penlow (Rudy Vallee). The two jobs are in the same building, forcing Greg to run from one to the other (up and down the stairwell) without being detected. He also must deal with Bernice and her eccentric ways.
Based on the 1965 novel Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips by Dan Greenburg, and with a screenplay co-written by Greenburg, Live a Little, Love a Little was a departure from the standard Presley film of the period. It had a more mature tone than other Presley musicals with strong language, drug references, and an implied sexual encounter.
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