Celebrate Elvis Presley s 86th birthday with five movies fit for the King Elvis Presley would have been 86 Friday, so celebrate with the best of his films.
By Maren Longbella Star Tribune January 11, 2021 9:26pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Whether you believe Elvis Presley died in 1977 or that he s alive and comes out of hiding from time to time like a rock n roll Big Foot, the King s birthday is still Jan. 8. The hip swiveler would have been 86 Friday, and what better way to celebrate than to round up five of his best movies.
Choosing five is no easy task. Elvis made 31 movies from 1956 to 1969, and many are terrible (looking at you, Charro! ).
Merry Melodies ×
Celebrating Hollywood’s Top Movie Musicals Of The 1950s.
By David Cohea, ReMIND Magazine
It was the decade of the American dream. World war and the Depression were fading in the rearview mirror. The future looked bright. The age of television was just dawning, but there was still something special about movies that kept theaters filled: singing and dancing and a good time for all, in Technicolor and VistaVision.
Hollywood movie musicals promised a vintage world of imagination, magic and toe-tapping pizzazz.
Sometimes there was polish to these movie musicals: tuxedoes and ball gowns, shiny shoes dancing on glittery floors. Other times they took us to distant places like Paris or the South Pacific, or into the golden past, be it a frontier farm out West, an old South riverboat floating down the Mississippi or a cab up Broadway in the Roaring ’20s.
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Netflix
The holidays are upon us, which means it s time to listen to Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber s All I Want for Christmas Is You on repeat, deck yourself out in tinsel, and, of course, settle down with some Netflix. The streaming giant is a go-to destination for anyone itching to have a holiday movie night, thanks to its growing stable of Christmas #content. From family-friendly fare like
The Christmas Chronicles and
A Christmas Prince (and its sequels,
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding and
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby, of course), the platform has something amazing for everyone