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Another photo of Linda Williams and Elvis, MGM Studios. 13th June 1957.
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'(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care' production number, 13th June 1957.
Script Supervisor Grace Dubray is sat foreground, Director Richard Thorpe, Elvis and Assistant Director Robert Relyea.
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Judy Tyler and Elvis, GM Studios 13th June 1957. Scene Garden Party
Jennifer Holden
"Elvis saved my life." After the pool scene, we went in our dressing rooms, I unplugged the heater in my room and the electric cord broke, flames were shooting out of the wall plug and set the room on fire. I was screaming: "Elvis, Elvis...", he called for help and came back with the set man. I had locked the door when I went in so couldn't get out. Together they broke down the door
Elvis, MGM Studios 13th June 1957.
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Judy Tyler and Elvis have a 'Cup of tea' for a publicity shot taken on lot 2, MGM Studios. The scene being shot is Scene 46 in the area of Exterior of the Peggy Van Alden Parents home when Vince and Peggy arrive at the house.
Date 31st May 1957.
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Two shots of Anne Neyland, Elvis, and Judy Tyler taken by the portable dressing rooms on either the 6th/7th June 1957, MGM studios. The stars are in costume for scene 91, in which Vince gives a party in his hotel room. The scene was scheduled to be shot on Thursday the 6th of June, but had to be finished on the morning of 7th of June, (hence the difficulty in pinpointing the dates for the two photos above)
Elvis and Anne Neyland, 6th/7th June 1957
Elvis at the same location as above, 7th June 1957
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Director Richard Thorpe, looks on as Elvis get his 'haircut'. (Elvis had two wigs, an Intermediate haircut and a Butch haircut) MGM stage 23, Scene 11, Interior Prison Barber shop. 20th May 1957.
Scene 11A take 2 can be seen in 'Elvis In Hollywood'.
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Director Richard Thorpe, Elvis and Jennifer Holden. Scene 119, lot 2 MGM, 12th June 1957
Housing Project scene, Director Richard Thorpe in conversation with Elvis on the morning of Wednesday 15th of May 1957.
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Dean Jones, Judy Tyler and Elvis. The scene being shot at this time was Scene 84, Peggy’s Hotel room on the 5th June 1957. This image was featured in 'Inside Jailhouse Rock' book page 106, but is uncropped here.
Don Burnett played the part of popular singer Mickey Alba (seen in some posters)
Missing scenes/parts of scenes
Scene 20: Theatre Prison broadcast - when Elvis performs 'I Want To Be Free’, there was also a section where Hunk sings before Vince, and a Harmonica player enters the stage after Vince. Filmed on 23rd of May 1957
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Scene 26: Warden's Office - after the riot in the prison dining room, the Warden reads Vince the rules and then asks him who he wants with him at the whipping.
Scene 35: Florita Club: Vince watches as Sam does number - Although this scene exists in the finished movie, it appears that it may have been shortened in the cutting room. Gloria Pall who played a stripper in this sequence had this to say “I think it was just one day, I did a whole dance for him with bumps and grinds and I told him, this reminds me of what you do, but they cut it, they cut my whole dance". Filmed on Tuesday 28th of May 1957.
Scene 86: Night club - Vince and trio do new number, this can be seen in the finished movie very briefly as the camera tracks into Elvis who is singing a slow number. The shooting script mentions playback was required. Are we looking at small segment of a full music number that remains in the vaults?
Filmed on the 3rd of June 1957.****
Scotty Moore Wardrobe photo for the scene described above.
Scene 110: Vince’s Beverly Hills Mansion - Vince and gang get out of cars, enter house. This includes Vince, Hunk, Musicians, extras and three cars. The intention was to have Mr.Shores voice over this segment. Filmed on the 6th of June 1957.
Scene 110x1: Vince's Beverly Hills Mansion - Vince and his group enter. Man tells Vince Peggy did not call. This scene included Vince, Hunk, Trio, Dogs, extras. Filmed on the 7th of June 1957, stage 26, MGM Studios.
Scene 120: Studio Gates - Vince and caravan drive into studio past gateman. This scene included Vince, Hunk, Trio, Dogs, extras, 3 cars. Filmed on the 6th of June 1957, lot 1 MGM Studios.
Scene 127: Hollywood Street - Hunk walking dogs as Peggy drives in, she offers Hunk job with record company. Hunk and Peggy, two dogs and Peggy's car, and extras. Filmed on the 10th of June 1957
Alternative Angles/extra footage found in the Trailer
Riot Scene 24 -The Trailer shows a tighter version of the fight with Vince and an extra punch thrown by a prison guard. 24DD was used instead of 24F. Filmed on the 23rd of May 1957
An outtake of Scene 24F take 3 can be seen in the programme 'Elvis In Hollywood'
Whipping Post Scene 27 - The Trailer shows an extra shot of Vince being released after the whipping and throwing a punch towards to the Warder. Original description in the shooting schedule 'Vince whipped - he goes after warden - guard knocks him out'. Filmed 22nd May 1957.
Garden Party Scene 123-124 - The Trailer shows alternative angle of the 'Baby I Don't Care' production number .Originally the script had Vince knock Alba in the pool after the song. It also stated it was to be a night scene. Filmed 13th June
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Director Richard Thorpe talks to Judy Tyler, whilst Hairdresser Peggy Shannon attends to her hair on Tuesday 28th May 1957. The scene is no. 35 Club La Florita Night
"OK get on to the sad part" "A Women and a bank did it" Scene 15-16 Cell, stage 23, filmed on 21st May 1957.note the lack of false wall.
“When Alex Romero, who was the choreographer of Jailhouse Rock, first presented the dance sequence for Jailhouse Rock, Elvis shook his head and he said, ‘That’s not me. I can’t do that, Alex. I appreciate, you know, what you’ve done here.’ He wanted Elvis to do more of a Gene Nelson/Fred Astaire type. Elvis said, ‘It’s not me. I’ll try it.’ And Elvis being the cooperative guy, he got up and tried. He said, ‘See Alex, it’s not me.’ And that’s when Alex said, ‘Elvis, I’ll tell you what. Let me incorporate your stage act into what I wanna do, and let’s see if that’ll work.’ And he went home that night, came back the next day, and had taken Elvis’s stage act and incorporated that into a dance sequence. Elvis said, ‘Hey, I can do that. That’s me.’ And in one take, right there in the rehearsal hall at MGM, Elvis had it down. And of course it became historic in being Elvis’s best dance sequence in a motion-picture.”
Sharon Sheeley, songwriter and friend of Elvis, remembers coming home from that movie (Pajama Game). And it was very late at night, and there this little drizzles out. And “Jailhouse Rock” came on the radio. And I remember Elvis stopped the car, got out of the car. It was on Fountain Avenue. And he danced the whole scene he did in the movie, in the middle of the street on Fountain Avenue. And I kept thinking if people woke up right now and looked out their windows, they’d see Elvis Presley dancing in the streets like Gene Kelly.
*TCM Archives
**From the book 'Not So Quiet On The Set '
***Taken from Rijff 'n' Roy Present "Elvis Echoes Of The Past" - Part 1
**** From Inside King Creole
The good news is I have found/discovered some new photos from the Jailhouse rock sessions and one from the on set timeframe, the bad news is that they are really bad quality as they have originally come from the Warner Blu-Ray/DVD Jailhouse Rock making of documentary. I have simply taken the images with my camera phone - and hope that someone can grab some decent screen-grabs via a computer?
April 30th 1957, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
Unknown, Hoyt Hawkins, Elvis, Gordon Stoker, Hugh Jarrett with Dudley Brooks at the piano.
April 30th 1957, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
Elvis stood with Bill Black behind him sat on chair with electric bass, unknown by door, Neil Matthews on upright Bass, Dudley Brooks on piano, with Scotty Moore sat with guitar and headphones on.
May 3rd 1957, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
Elvis leans over to Hoyt Hawkins at the piano with Hugh Jarrett behind Elvis
May 3rd 1957, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
Arthur Hooton?*, Neil Matthews, Hoyt Hawkins at the piano with George Klein behind him. Elvis, D.J. Fontana, Hugh Jarrett and Scotty Moore with Guitar, and unknown (suggestion by drjohncarpenter that it’s MGM musical supervisor Jeff Alexander)
Waiting for image to be updated
Judy Tyler with cowboy hat, unknown and Dean Jones, and Elvis. Dean Jones and Judy Tyler are in costume for Scene 84, Peggy's Hotel room, which could make it the 5th June 1957, MGM studios
See The Jailhouse Rock Sessions topic for the other photos from this time.
CAR CRASH KILLS ACTRESS, MATE.
JUDY TYLER, 24, RIDGEFIELD, HUSBAND DIE IN WYOMING.
Ridgefield, July 5. -- Services for JUDY TYLER, 24-year-old screen star who, with her actor-husband, was killed yesterday in an auto accident near the tourist resort of Billy the Kid, Wyo., will take place Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in the FRANK CAMPBELL funeral home, 81st street and Madison avenue. MISS TYLER, who was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist, will be cremated at Ferncliff, N.Y.
The daughter of MR. and MRS. JULIAN S. HESS, of Nutmeg ridge, MISS TYLER, with her husband of less than four months, GREGORY LAFAYETTE, was scheduled to have appeared on Pantomime Quiz, which will be inaugurated tonight on CBS. MR. and MRS. HESS, who have resided the past five years in Ridgefield where MR. HESS is a building contractor, are MISS TYLER'S only survivors.
She had just completed her first starring dramatic role, playing opposite ELVIS PRESLEY in "Jailhouse Rock," and a musical "Bop Girl Goes Calypso," is scheduled for July 15 release. MISS TYLER co-starred in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Pipe Dream" with BILL JOHNSON, who died five months ago of a heart ailment. She had appeared on numerous TV shows and recently completed a series of melodramas, "Perry Mason, Detective."
Born Oct. 9, 1932, in New York City, MISS TYLER attended schools in Teaneck, N.J., and studied in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. The brown eyed, raven haired actress won the title of "Miss Stardust," a nationwide beauty contest, in 1948.
MISS TYLER and MR. LAFAYETTE, of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., were married March 17 in Miami, Fla. The young couple had been living at 158 West 44th street, New York City.
The LAFAYETTES were motoring east from Hollywood. Police said MR. LAFAYETTE apparently swung into the lane of oncoming traffic to avoid hitting a car which was pulling onto U.S. Highway 30 from a tourist curio shop.
The LAFAYETTES' car smashed head-on into a westbound car occupied by DONALD J. JONES, 23, of Hanna, Wyo., and PAUL L. REED, 32, also of Hanna. MR. JONES was killed and MR. REED injured. A dog and cat in the LAFAYETTES' car also were killed.
Reported from the Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Barring a last-minute change in plans, Elvis Presley will not go to New York for Tuesday's funeral of the starlet who co-starred with him in his latest movie, "Jailhouse Rock." Judy Tyler and her husband, Gregory Lafayette, a television actor, were killed Wednesday in an automobile accident near Billy the Kid, Wyo. Tentative plans call for a double funeral Tuesday afternoon in New York. Mrs. Vernon Presley, mother of the rock and roll star, said last night the family had "talked it over and decided it was best for Elvis not to go." It was their feeling Elvis should remember her as she was before death. "He'll just send flowers," Mrs. Presley added, "unless Elvis takes a notion at the last minute.
Bop girl Judy Tyler was born Judith Mae Hess on October 9, 1933, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The daughter of a big band trumpeter and a former Ziegfeld girl, she got her show business break at the age of 13 playing Princess Summerfall Winterspring on The Howdy Doody Show. During a brief marriage to composer/lyricist Colin Romoff, Tyler was whisked out of the Broadway chorus line to star in the Rogers and Hammerstein musical Pipedream, based on a novel by John Steinbeck. Playing a vaguely defined Cannery Row prostitute (a role for which Julie Andrews had auditioned unsuccessfully), Tyler was nominated for a Tony award but Pipe Dreams failed to catch fire. Nonetheless, when Life magazine put the beauty on the cover of its December 26, 1955 issue in the company of other “shining young Broadway stars” Diane Cilento, Susan Strasberg, Lois Smith and Jayne Mansfield, Tyler’s stock began to rise. Granted a divorce from her first husband, Tyler married actor Gregory LaFayette in 1957. That same year, she played the eponymous chanteuse of Bop Girl Goes Calypso and was chosen to star in a film opposite the King of Rock himself, Elvis Presley. Three days after completing her work on Jailhouse Rock (1957), Tyler and LaFayette were killed i
A Milwaukee detective returned home today with the personal belongings of movie starlet Judy Tyler which were recovered from the wreckage of a head-on Wyoming highway crash that killed Miss Tyler and her husband last Wednesday
Gregory Lafayette and Judy Tyler Lafayette were involved in an auto accident on
July 3rd, 1957. The accident occurred on US-287/30 three miles north of Rock River, Wyoming in the northbound lane of US-287/30. At 5:50 PM a '54 Chevy driven by Paul Reed broadsided the '57 Chevy of the Lafayettes, which had swerved into the northbound lane to avoid colliding with a car towing a trailer
That had just pulled into the southbound lane in front of them.
The collision was so violent that all the window glass in both cars was reduced to powder. The '54 Chevy penetrated the Lafayette's car by 3 feet,
Cutting Judy Tyler in half. A passenger in Reed's car was nearly decapitated.
Greg Lafayette was taken to Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie with a broken back and a fractured leg. He died there July 4th.
The site of the accident was directly in front of a popular convenience store and petting zoo called "Wild Bill's", erroneously reported as "Billy The Kid",
Wyoming. There is no such town; it was a convenience stop.
Robert E. Relyea (First assistant director on Jailhouse Rock): "Elvis loved women - all women. He wasn't just out to conquer them, he truly cherished them, and I believe, without doubt, that the woman he loved more than any other in his life was Judy Tyler his co-star in Jailhouse.
We tested four actresses for the role of Peggy, the beautiful businesswoman who tries to teach the brash young singer about love and responsibility. Judy won the audition, despite interference from her annoying husband, the French ballet dancer Gregory Lafayette. Richard Thorpe had enough of Lafayette's meddling after ten minutes and had him physically thrown off the lot, telling Hollywood the guard at the Thalberg gate, “If you ever see this man again, shoot him!" So the husband wasn't seen at the studio after that, and the romance between Elvis and Judy developed quickly. It was an intense affair, Elvis grew to love her deeply, about the second week of shooting, and the leads were ten minutes late returning from lunch-Richard Thorpe said to Elvis
"Let me explain something to you, as long as I am directing this picture, when we go to lunch from one o'clock to two o'clock we will start shooting at two o'clock" "Yes sir” Elvis said "Now, what an actor and actress do with each other away from the camera, I couldn't care less, but I won't let it interfere with our work" said Thorpe - "it was totally my fault, It won't happen again" said Elvis and it didn't
Many of us believed that once the filming of the movie ended, Elvis and Judy would go public with their love for each other, however Judy was sent on a short publicity tour when the picture wrapped without Elvis, if Judy was going to leave her husband , it would have to wait a few more weeks.*
Elvis and Judy Tyler on set. This has been taken from a magazine, and though of poor quality has the original background (this image is most often found with the background removed)
*Extracted from the book ‘Not so quiet on the set' by Robert E. Relyea
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