The “Hound Dog” performer was not put off when she informed him that she was in the ninth grade. On the fateful November night, Priscilla entered Elvis’s home in Bad Nauheim, wearing a navy-and-white sailor dress. Her stepfather Paul, after talking to this man’s commanding officer, gave permission. While out with her brother, another service member had invited her to accompany him and his wife to meet Elvis. The couple reportedly first set eyes on each other at a party in 1959. 'Three years later and 5,500 miles away I would meet him,' Priscilla wrote in an essay for People in 1985. She already knew all about the musician, as she had listened to his first record at 11 years old, while her family was stationed at a base in Austin, Texas. Army in Wiesbaden, West Germany, at the time, while Priscilla’s stepfather, who was in the Air Force, had been transferred to the base there. Specifically, Elvis was serving in the U.S. How did Elvis and Priscilla meet?Įlvis and Priscilla Presley (née Beauliu Wagner) met in the most unlikely of places: 1950s Germany.

How did the courtship between Elvis and Priscilla, wildly inappropriate by today’s standards, actually unfold in those days? What kind of spin does Coppola give their tumultuous six-year marriage? And why does Priscilla still talk fondly of her ex? Here all your pressing Elvis-and-Priscilla questions, based on interviews and other writing and reporting about their romance, answered. They started living together soon after, though it would be years before they married and had their only child, Lisa Marie Presley, who died earlier this year. The movie is already inviting renewed skepticism about the central relationship: Priscilla met Elvis when she was 14, and Elvis was 24 and already one of the most famous singers in the world. Cailee Spaeny stars in the title role, while Jacob Elordi plays the hunky, magnetic, controlling, and extremely complicated superstar.

Now director Sofia Coppola ( Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette) has entered with what could be called a corrective, or at least a counterpoint, to that film’s glossy excesses: Her Priscilla (now playing in theaters across the country) is almost exclusively told from the point of view of his first and only wife.Īdapted from Priscilla Presley’s 1985 book Elvis and Me, Priscilla tends to focus on hushed conversations, with no arena set pieces (the company that owns the majority of Elvis’s assets denied music rights). It was only last year that Elvis, the spectacle-driven biopic from director Baz Luhrmann, gave the King of Rock and Roll his biggest spotlight in decades. IF ADS FOR the new movie Priscilla give you a sense of déjà vu, you're not alone.

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