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Elvis on location during the filming of "TICKLE ME."
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ELVIS WON A 1966 GOLDEN LAUREL AWARD AS BEST MALE ACTOR IN A MUSICAL FILM FOR THIS ROLE.
The screenplay for "TICKLE ME" was written by Elwood Ullman and Edward Bernds.
Elvis in the role of Lonnie Beale and the Panhandle Kid.
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The original title of the film was called "ISLE OF PARADISE."
Elvis in the role of Lonnie Beale.
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"TICKLE ME" is the only Elvis film released by Allied Artists Pictures. "TICKLE ME" literally kept Allied Artists Pictures from bankruptcy due to a song from its recycled soundtrack, "(SUCH AN) EASY QUESTION" which was a Top 40 hit in the United States. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and reached #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart in July 1965.
Elvis was paid $600,000 plus $150,000 in expenses and 50% of the profits. The below-the-line costs were estimated at $399,750; it went $6,650 over budget and finished at $406,400. This made it the cheapest movie Elvis made to date. Costs were minimized because the soundtrack consisted of unreleased songs, so no new music needed to be recorded.
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Even though "TICKLE ME" was produced by Allied Artists the movie was filmed in whole at Paramount Pictures Studios. It was shot in 23 days with an additional two days for second unit photography.
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The film was released in the United States on Wednesday, June 30, 1965. It grossed $3.0 million in the United States and $4.7 million cumulative worldwide.
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Julie Adams as Vera Radford
Jack Mullaney as Stanley Potter
Jocelyn Lane as Pamela Meritt
Connie Gilchrist as Hilda
Merry Anders as Estelle Penfield
Edward Faulkner as Brad Bentley
Barbara Werle as Barbara
Bill Williams as Deputy Sturdivant
Allison Hayes as Mabel
Elvis Presley as Lonnie Beale
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Barbara Werle as Barbara
John Dennis as Adolph
Connie Gilchrist as Hilda
Allison Hayes as Mabel
Grady Sutton as Mr. Dabney
Lilyan Chauvin as Ronnie
Ines Pedroza as Ophelia
Dorian Brown as Polly
Angela Greene as Donna
Edward Faulkner as Brad Bentley
Eve Bruce as Pat
Laurie Burton as Janet
Jean Ingram as Evelyn
Dorothy Konrad as Mrs. Dabney
Ann Morell as Sibyl
Richard Reeves as Jim the bartender
Linda Rogers as Clair Kincannon
Jackie Russell as Gloria
Charles Sherlock as Croupier
Peggy Ward as Dot
Red West as Mabel's Boyfriend
Francine York as Mildred
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Lonnie Beale (played by Elvis Presley), is an out-of-work singing rodeo star who gets a job at, Yogurt Gulch, an exclusive all-women dude ranch and beauty spa. He falls for fitness trainer, Pam Merritt (played by Jocelyn Lane). Pam is under constant threat by a gang who wants to find the location of her late grandfather's cache of gold. A relationship develops when Lonnie comes to Pam's rescue on more than one occasion.