{"id":138843,"date":"2025-08-16T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=138843"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:12:44","slug":"i-had-never-seen-anything-like-him-i-vowed-nothing-would-stop-me-from-signing-this-boy-for-films-producer-hal-wallis-on-elvis-presley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=138843","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I had never seen anything like him . . . I vowed nothing would stop me from signing this boy for films.&#8221; &#8211; producer Hal Wallis on Elvis Presley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/giphy.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138844\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nPublished during Elvis Week in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/blog\/tcm-diary-elvis-actor\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s my piece for <i>Film Comment<\/i> on Elvis as an actor<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=141090\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the talk I gave at The Memphian in Memphis<\/a>, on Elvis&#8217; acting career. <\/p>\n<p>And finally: the piece I just wrote for Criterion on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/8221-elviss-adventures-in-hollywood\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elvis&#8217;s Adventures in Hollywood<\/a>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p>And of course here: I wrote about Elvis non-stop for about three years and continue to do so. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published during Elvis Week in 2017, here&#8217;s my piece for Film Comment on Elvis as an actor. And here&#8217;s the talk I gave at The Memphian in Memphis, on Elvis&#8217; acting career. And finally: the piece I just wrote for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=138843\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,17,39],"tags":[2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138843"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200717,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138843\/revisions\/200717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}