A TRUE ELVIS PHOTO TAKEN ON LOCATION DURING THE FILMING OF
Stay Away, Joe
Circa 1968
Why Elvis's authentic photographs are such a problem for some, is truly a mystery. Every time a fake photo gets debunked, a new fake photograph is discovered online. The following pages show you just a few, but more will continue to be added.
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As we see here, ELVIS's head has been placed on the body of
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MONSTROUS
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Just when you thought you couldn't be more frightened by a fake Elvis photograph, another pops up. This one is really bad. Someone decided to dream up an age transformation on Elvis, but to keep history accurate it is necessary to show Elvis's new fans and some of his old fans the original photograph from 1969.
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THE ORIGINAL IS SO MUCH BETTER. WHY ANYONE WOULD CHANGE IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. COCA COLA AD
ELVIS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT CORNY SHIRT
THERE ARE SO MANY SPLENDID "REAL" PHOTOGRAPHS OF ELVIS AND PRISCILLA; THERE IS NO NEED TO CREATE NEW ONES. PLUS, IF THE CREATOR OF THIS FAKE PHOTOGRAPH HAD AN INKLING ABOUT ELVIS, THEY WOULD HAVE KNOWN HIS STYLE OF DRESS WAS CULTURALLY BLACK. THIS SHIRT IS NOT PART OF THAT CULTURE.
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PAUL NEWMAN
Photograph was taken on location during the filming of the 1958 Western
"THE LEFT HANDED GUN"
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A 1956 shot of Elvis's head was placed on Paul Newman's body.
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MARLON BRANDO
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A lot of the photos are blurred just enough to keep you from detecting that they are fake. For example like the one you see here, where Elvis's head was placed on . . .
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MARLON BRANDO
ORIGINAL
Marlon Brando's older body in 1953; the year Elvis graduated from high school.
Another photo where Elvis's head was placed on Marlon Brando's body. The person who altered this photograph should have researched how Elvis was not a cat person.
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NOT A CAT PERSON
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Here at home, Marlon Brando relaxes with his cat.
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BRANDO LOVED CATS
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An Elvis headshot has been strategically placed on Marlon Brando's body. The original photograph on the right is of Marlon Brando in 1955 at an Awards Ceremony with Katy Jurado. In 1955, Elvis was just starting out touring with the Blue Moon Boys. Therefore the headshot of Elvis is much older than a twenty-year-old Elvis in 1955.
ELVIS SUAVE
BRANDO SUAVE
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BRANDO AGAIN!
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BRANDO AGAIN!
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I don't know what the infatuation is with switching heads with Marlon Brando, but here is another one. This one isn't very good either; the photograph with Elvis's head is bitmapped and blurry.
A Love For Horses
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Both Dean and Elvis had a love for horses, but this love goes to Dean Martin. Shown here with his horse, TOPS. Martin on location during the filming of
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Elvis covered "MY WAY" and made it his own even though it had been popularized by Frank Sinatra. Maybe that's what gave someone the stupid idea to take Elvis's photograph as a youth and stick it under Sinatra's hat.
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FRANK SINATRA
TWO WAYS DONE "MY WAY"
MY WAY by Frank Sinatra - Video
"MY WAY" by Elvis Presley - Video
ELVIS NEVER PLAYED A VAMPIRE
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Elvis played a lot of different characters, but he never played a vampire.
THE REAL VAMPIRE
Ian Somerhalder played Damon Salvatore on . . .
. . . "THE VAMPIRE DIARIES"
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DEBRA PAGET
MARILYN MONROE DID NOT PLAY THE ROLE OF CATHY RENO IN "LOVE ME TENDER"
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This is another strange head switch. As you can see, Marilyn Monroe's head is awkwardly placed over Debra Paget's head. An easy detection that this was fake is because Marilyn's head is way too big and the shadows are all wrong.
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DOLORES HART
MARILYN MONROE DID NOT PLAY THE ROLE OF SUSAN JESSUP IN "LOVING YOU"
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Both Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley are American icons. However, there is no record of them actually meeting one another.
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"LOVING YOU"
This photograph of Elvis was taken from a scene with Dolores Hart in the 1957 movie:
Thursday, January 14, 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio were married at City Hall in San Francisco.
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Nice Try! Marilyn Monroe's head has been placed over Mary Ann Mobley's head. The scene is from the 1965 movie "GIRL HAPPY!"
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JAILHOUSE ROCK
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The photograph on the far right is poorly merged. Someone seems to not have been too skilled in Photoshop. Marilyn Monroe's 1951 publicity photograph is from the movie "LOVE NEST" with Jack Paar. The Elvis headshot is from the 1957 movie "JAILHOUSE ROCK" with Jennifer Holden who played the role of Sherry Wilson. Click on the movie names above to rent movies.
LOVE NEST
NEW YORK
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DEAN
LOS ANGELES
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Even though James Dean died in 1955, he was not in the photograph with Marilyn.
On Saturday, August 18, 1956, Elvis was photographed by Ed Braslaff at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood California. From this original photograph came two fakes.
Colorized and placed on top of this Jaguar XK120.
Original photograph of Marilyn Monroe in New York at her residence at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1955.
Elvis was placed in a photograph with Marilyn Monroe in New York.
On June 5, 1956, Elvis rocked the famous "HOUND DOG" performance. Critics were outraged, but the countrys' teenagers loved it.
MILTON BERLE SHOW
FAMOUS HOUND DOG PERFORMANCE
This is pretty clever. This woman's photo was strategically placed over Milton Berle in the picture. They also shifted the direction of Elvis's arm.
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JUNE JUANICO
Priscilla Beaulieu's head with a strange hairstyle and eye color was placed on top of another girl's body, creating this "weird fake" photograph on the right. The ORIGINAL photograph (shown on the left) is of Elvis and June Juanico, a girl he dated from Biloxi, Mississippi. June details her experience with Elvis in her book "Elvis in the Twilight of Memory."
WEIRD FAKE
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Why would this counterfeiter choose this smiling headshot of Elvis? Who smiles as if they are posing for a selfie while fighting on the front lines?
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Video Game
TOO SILLY EVEN FOR A VIDEO GAME
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Elvis and his car were cut out of the original photograph and placed on a photograph in front of the Memphis Recording Service.
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CLOTHING COLOR CHANGE!
A fooler of a color change, because someone took the time to do the Photoshop alteration properly.
"DIG MAGAZINE"
November 1956 Edition
This classic green Elvis jacket was purchased from Lansky Brothers located on Beale Street in Memphis. Elvis wore it on the cover of
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Elvis and his car were cut out of the original photograph and placed on a photograph in front of the Memphis Recording Service.
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BACKGROUND
On Thursday, September 9, 1954, Elvis and the Blue Moon Boys performed at the Katz-Drug Store Lamar-Airways Shopping Center. In this original photograph, Elvis is seen here in the Lamar Shopping Center parking lot.
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Elvis and his car were cut out of the original photograph and placed on a photograph in front of the Memphis Recording Service.
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ORIGINAL
BACKGROUND
On Thursday, September 9, 1954, Elvis and the Blue Moon Boys performed at the Katz-Drug Store Lamar-Airways Shopping Center. In this original photograph, Elvis is seen here in the Lamar Shopping Center parking lot.
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Elvis and his car were cut out of the original photograph and placed on a photograph in front of the Memphis Recording Service.
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BACKGROUND
On Thursday, September 9, 1954, Elvis and the Blue Moon Boys performed at the Katz-Drug Store Lamar-Airways Shopping Center. In this original photograph, Elvis is seen here in the Lamar Shopping Center parking lot.
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CLOTHING COLOR CHANGE!
A fooler of a color change, because someone took the time to do the Photoshop alteration properly.
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ORIGINAL JACKET COLOR
This classic green Elvis jacket was purchased from Lansky Brothers located on Beale Street in Memphis. Elvis wore it on the cover of "Dig Magazine."
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There are some fake photographs where they took the time to at least try and make it look convincing. This is one of those times. The head was taken from a screen shot from the 1957 movie "Loving You."
ELVIS LOVED CARS AND LEATHER
JUST NOT IN THESE PHOTOS
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FLUTIST
Website for Davide Formisano
DAVIDE FORMISANO (middle), is a flue concertists, professor at Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, and principla flutist at the Scala in Milano. This is the REAL photograph. The fake photograph (far right) is a mixture of Elvis's 1956 photo (far left) and Formisano's ear. This was found on bing.com/images. Unfortunately, someone didn't believe that Davide Formisano deserved a photograph of his own regardless of his talent and hard work.
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STRANGE COLORS
STRANGE COLORS
Needless to say, the original photograph isn't hard to detect. This 1956 photo of Elvis and his mother Gladys was taken in black and white. There have only been a few colorized photographs of the authentic Elvis photographs that were able to fool people, this isn't one of them.
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PARENT REPLACEMENT
This fake is weird because it attempts to turn Elvis into a middle-aged man. Though the original on the right of Elvis' parents, Vernon and Gladys Presley, look like middle-aged parents would look. This photograph was taken in Memphis, Tennessee in 1954 by photographer, William Speer.
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IF IT SAYS PIRETOS CREATIONS, YOU KNOW IT IS FAKE!
Slipping Elvis in the above photograph with Gladys Presley was pretty clever though looking closely you can see a few errors in his arms and shoulders. The true photograph is on the right.
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NOT EVEN CHEROKEE!
Click here for the actual Portrait (Front) of this Princess in Native Dress with Ornaments 1900.
Elvis's great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee.
Her name was Morning Dove.
THE PHOTO ON THE LEFT IS NOT HER.
However, all over the internet, this photograph is labeled as being such. FACT: This photograph was taken by photographer Lee Major Moorhouse. She was an Umatilla Indian from the Oregon and Washington Territories. The Cherokees were from the Southeastern regions. This is a glass negative and is contained in the Bureau of American Ethnology - 1850s-1930s.
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ADOPTED SON
DION ANTHONY FAY
The photo below was actually mislabeled on page 77 of . . .
. . . THE ELVIS ENCYCLOPEDIA
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This is not Elvis but a photograph of the adopted son of Barbara Stanwyck and her first husband, Frank Fay. Dion Anthony Fay was adopted in 1932. In later years, Dion was alienated from Stanwyck. In April 1960, he was arrested for selling pornographic materials (Congress didn't repeal the remaining 1873 Comstock Laws until 1965).
The real two year old Elvis Presley is shown below standing between his parents.
Circa 1937
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ARMY ISSUE
RUE MOUFFETARD: AN OBVIOUS CATCH
Army issue undershirts were and still are WHITE only. Someone didn't care for Army discipline and decided to turn Elvis's 1958 undershirt into a decade's later t-shirt.
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NEVER A PRISON STRIPE
On the internet, Elvis's MILITARY photo is placed among actual convict photographs and labeled as a criminal mug shot . . .
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