Jailhouse Rock (1957)
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Movie Highlights
Awards
Most Performed Feature Film Standards ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards [1991] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Plot Summary
One of the best of Elvis Presley`s pre-Army films, Jailhouse Rock offers us the sensual, "dangerous" Elvis that had won the hearts of the kids and earned the animosity of their elders. Presley plays a young buck who accidentally kills a man while pro...
Tagline
Elvis in Action as Never Before!
His first big dramatic singing role!
MGM Presents ELVIS PRESLEY at his greatest

Discography

Singles
(You`re So Square) Baby I Don`t Care
Jailhouse Rock
Treat Me Nice
Don`t Leave Me Now
I Want to Be Free
Young And Beautiful
One More Day
 

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posted by Rowena Jackson
Roger Hinesh just left my office. I ask why his name was not listed amongst the dancers in J.H.Rock and he had asked that too of the front office and it seems that because he was part time and a member of Screen Actor Guild he was not listed. He was in a total of at least 10 other movies during those years.
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posted by don rhodes
was there a dancer or an extra named roger hinesh? thanks
posted 243 days ago

 

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Quotes
  • Vince Everett: How`s your headache? Sherry Wilson: I`m coming all unglued. [they continue to kiss]
  • Vince Everett: [their first meeting, after she has criticized his dull singing style] Okay, you`re used to the top talent. What are you wasting your time working *me* over for? Peggy Van Alden: [softly] I like the way you swing a guitar. [they look at each other and start laughing] Vince Everett: Yeah, I guess I *did* get a lot of wrist action into it, didn`t I?
  • Sherry Wilson: I asked for nothing, I expected nothing and I got nothing. Vince Everett: Well, what`d you expect for nothing?
  • Peggy Van Alden: How dare you think such cheap tactics would work with me! Vince Everett: That ain`t tactics, honey. It`s just the beast in me.
  • Peggy Van Alden: I think I`m going to just hate you! Vince Everett: No, you ain`t gonna hate me. I ain`t gonna let you hate me.
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  • Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote 4 songs (`Jailhouse Rock`, `I Want to Be Free`, ` Treat Me Nice`, and `You`re So Square`) in 5 hours after their music publisher, under deadline, locked them in their hotel room.
  • The film was not actually shot in widescreen. It was converted to Cinemascope in the final print after having been shot in a standard Academy ratio, much like some films which are "matted" after having been filmed in a normal size.
  • Elvis`s band in the film is his real-life band including Scottie Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on stand-up bass. Both have been with Elvis since his beginnings in Memphis at Sun Records. In the recording studio scenes, the piano player is Mike Stoller of the Lieber and Stoller songwriting team who wrote many of the major hit rock songs of the 50`s.
  • In the lawn party scene, just after Vince embraces an unresponsive Peggy, the hired orchestra begins an instrumental number. The tune they`re playing is "All I Do Is Dream Of You", from the 1934 film "Sadie McKee". This same tune, with vocal accompaniment, was featured in a series of television commercials for Bell Canada during the mid-1970s.
  • Originally the choreographer, Alex Romero, created a dance for the song "Jailhouse Rock" that was in a style that was apropos for a more classically trained dancer than Elvis. When Mr. Romero realized that his plans for the number were never going to work, he asked Elvis how would he normally move to the song; thus, this is how Elvis became the uncredited choreographer for what could be considered his most famous dance number in all of his movies.
  • Gene Kelly was watching as Elvis Presley performed the "Jailhouse Rock" set-piece for the film.
  • In the listing of the American Film Institute`s "100 years, 100 Songs" the song "Jailhouse Rock" was voted #21.
  • One day, while filming a scene, Elvis Presley swallowed a tooth cap and had to be hospitalized to remove it.
  • The swank apartment for Elvis was a slightly redressed set previously used as Lauren Bacall`s in Designing Woman (1957).
  • Elvis Presley refused to watch this movie because of Judy Tyler`s tragic accidental death in a car wreck July 4, 1957, three days after filming was completed.
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