Elvis and the Beauty Queen (1981)
Drama · Music · TV Movie
Overview
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.
Cast
- Don Johnson as Elvis Presley
- Stephanie Zimbalist as Linda Thompson
- Ann Dusenberry as Jeannie LeMay
- Rick Lenz as David Briggs
- Ann Wedgeworth as Aunt Betty
- Richard Herd as Sanford Thompson
- Jay W. MacIntosh as Marge Thompson
- Ruta Lee as Su-Su
- Edward Edwards as Sam Thompson
- John Crawford as Vernon Presley