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Live A Little, Love A Little
NORMAN TAUROG
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"LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE" was Director Norman Taurog’s last Elvis Presley film he directed. Shortly after post-production, Taurog went blind. While legally blind, Taurog became increasingly reclusive. His health issues worsened not only with circulatory problems which resulted in the amputation of his toes, he also battled cancer until 1981 when he passed away at the age of eighty-two.
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"LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE" is based on the novel "KISS MY FIRM BUT PLIANT LIPS" by Dan Greenburg.
Two additional senseless working titles to this film were "BUMBLEBEE OH BUMBLEBEE" and "BORN RICH." Both would have worked considering the movie doesn’t make any sense either.
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"LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE" was filmed in and around Hollywood, along the Malibu Coast, Marineland, Hollywood Citizen-News building, and at the Los Angeles Music Center.
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MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) released the film on Wednesday, October 23, 1968. The movie did so poorly it wasn’t released in other countries. However, Elvis still got his contracted $850,000 plus 50% of the profits.
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Elvis Presley as Greg Nolan
Don Porter as Mike Lansdown
Michele Carey as Bernice
Dick Sargent as Harry
Rudy Vallee as Mr. Penlow
Celeste Yarnall as Ellen
Sterling Holloway as The Milkman
Joan Shawlee as Robbie's Mother
Eddie Hodges as The Delivery Boy
Emily Banks as RKC&P Receptionist
Mary Grover as Miss Selfridge
Vernon Presley as the distinguished gentleman model
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At the onset of "LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE," photographer, Greg Nolan (played by Elvis Presley), drives to the beach and lays down a towel to relax. A Great Dane named Albert comes out of nowhere and takes his spot on the beach. While Greg is attempting to get the dog off of his towel, a lunatic named Bernice (played by Michele Carey), tells him her name is Alice, asks Greg if he would like to make love to her. They start kissing and when she feels insulted because Greg didn’t say the kiss was mind-blowing, she orders her dog to chase Greg into the ocean. The sun sets before Bernice calls her dog off and allows Greg to get out of the water.
Ignoring the fact that this woman is completely loco, Greg accepts her invitation to go home with her. Bernice takes Greg’s clothes to dry and makes a pass at him, but he turns her down. When her efforts don’t pan out, she gets her dog to hold Greg hostage in the house.
Next, a delivery boy shows up and calls Bernice by the name of Suzy. After the delivery boy leaves she goes back into the room with Greg, checks his temperature, and tells him he has a fever. She gives him a pill and forces him to take it by punching him in the stomach.
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In the next scene, Greg awakens with quite a bit of facial hair making it obvious he’s been drugged and has slept for several days. Bernice tells him he’s been asleep for three days.
Next, the milkman shows up and calls Bernice by the name of Betty. When Greg inquiries about her name, she drags out some tale about and her dead husband and that her name is Mrs. Baby. She gives Greg more pills which he tries to hide under his pillow, but this time the dog forces him to take them. Bernice gets Greg some clothing to wear while he’s shaving, and tells him her many names are for whatever mood she’s in. She makes another pass at Greg and he refuses saying he has to know the name of the woman he’s involved with.
Supposedly, Mr. Harry Baby (played by Dick Sergent), the supposed dead husband who is not dead and was never her husband appears. He makes himself comfortable by donning a robe and pipe. It’s obvious Harry is in love with Bernice. In a small fit of jealousy, Greg demands to know how Harry got in the house. Bernice tells Greg he has a key. Greg decides to leave, Bernice tells her dog to attack Greg again, but he gets away this time.
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Because Greg hadn’t been to work or called to work for several days, his boss fires him. Then Greg gets into a fight with two guys.
When Greg makes it home, his landlord has moved him out and moved another tenant into his apartment. The landlord tells Greg his sister, Miss Baby (Bernice), paid his back rent and had his belongings moved to a new location. Greg goes to find Bernice to get an explanation. She doesn’t give him one and tells him he can stay in the new place by himself for the night. The new place is a house Bernice has replaced his old apartment with. Greg agrees. Then he opens up her mink coat seeing she’s completely nude underneath. Greg decides not to sleep with her and seeks another place to sleep in the same house.
At dinner, Greg eats dog food laced with garlic. Then Mr. Harry Baby joins them for dinner and tries to convince Greg that it is in his best interest not to get involved with Bernice. However, Greg sticks around but instead of sleeping with Bernice, he sleeps on the couch. Greg experienced a dream with the Great Dane upright like a human and people dancing around to the song "THE EDGE OF REALITY."
Greg finds he has to increase his income when the rent on the new place turns out to be too expensive. So he applies and acquires two photography jobs in the same building. One is CLASSIC CAT MAGAZINE (or CLASSY CAT MAGAZINE) for a type of Hugh Hefner Playboy company and the other is a well-respected conservative firm.
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Greg informs Bernice that he can pay her back the back rent she paid to his landlord. Strangely, Greg asks Bernice out to dinner, but when he goes to pick her up, the dog gives him a letter with a different address. When Greg gets in the car to leave, the dog jumps in the car.
Greg shows up at the new address only to find Harry’s there and they’re having hot dogs and egg rolls. At this point, Harry has given up trying to get back with Bernice and leaves. When a kiss ensues between Greg and Bernice, Harry comes back saying he forgot to take Bernice with him.
Back at work the next day, Greg runs back and forth from each job, making sure his bosses don’t find out he’s working for the both of them.
Instead of Greg trying to get a new place to live, he goes back to the house Bernice acquired for him. There she’s in the arms of Harry, angering Greg enough to punch him. Greg kicks Bernice out and she starts whining about how Harry owns the other house where they stayed and that he’s going to sell it; how she’s going to be homeless. Greg kicks her and her dog out.
Greg attends the Playboy boss’s party. Bernice is at the party, but Greg makes the moves on a different woman he meets there. (Then finally some relief from this ludicrous plot) Greg (Elvis) sings "A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION." Greg gets the girl to go home with him, but Bernice is there and interferes with this booty call.
In a scene with Celest Yarnell and Michele Carey.
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The next day Greg is at work and is still playing the dual role of making sure his bosses don’t find out he’s working for the both of them.
When Greg goes home to the house he kicked Bernice out of, he bumps into Harry leaving. When he enters the house, Bernice is playing possum so he takes a shower. Bernice enters the bathroom to make another play for Greg while he’s in the shower, but he throws her out of the bathroom. Then Greg, in his own house, sleeps on the couch again.
At work the next day, Greg is late for a photoshoot of a distinguished-looking man (who in real life is Elvis’s father, Vernon Presley).
When Greg gets back home, he sleeps in his bed with Bernice, nothing happens because they put a wooden board between them.
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At work the next day, Greg’s bosses find out he works for both of them and he loses both jobs. However, the Playboy boss hires him back.
Greg arrives back home and makes love to Bernice. Well, we are meant to believe they made love.
The next morning Bernice leaves a note telling Greg not to look for her. Greg goes back to her beach house where he’s confronted by Harry. Greg gets punched by Harry then goes looking for Bernice. They kiss and this time she does not acknowledge that the kiss was anything special. So this time Greg tells the dog to chase her into the water. The dog actually does it. Then Greg joins her in the water.
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