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Music History Events: Movies

April 23, 1964 The Beatles shoot the "Can't Buy Me Love" scene for their movie A Hard Day's Night on a south London athletic field augmented with a helipad.

January 15, 1964 The King and I soundtrack album is certified gold.

November 27, 1963 The Elvis Presley film Fun in Acapulco premieres. The soundtrack features the Top 10 hit "Bossa Nova Baby."

April 8, 1963 Patty Duke wins the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for The Miracle Worker.

November 21, 1962 Elvis Presley's 11th film, Girls! Girls! Girls!, opens in US theaters.

August 29, 1962 Elvis' 10th movie, Kid Galahad, opens in US theaters, featuring the King as an amateur boxer. Charles Bronson also stars.

April 9, 1962 Henry Mancini wins the Best Original Song Academy Award for "Moon River" from Breakfast At Tiffany's.

April 7, 1962 Bobby Rydell wins the role of Hugo in the movie version of Bye Bye Birdie.

November 22, 1961 The Elvis Presley film Blue Hawaii opens in theaters. In the film, Elvis plays an Army veteran (which he is in real life) returning home to Hawaii.

June 21, 1961 The Hayley Mills movie The Parent Trap (with her hit "Let's Get Together") opens in theaters.

June 8, 1961 Elvis Presley's seventh movie, Wild In The Country, premieres in his hometown of Memphis.

March 20, 1961 Elvis Presley begins filming his ninth movie, Blue Hawaii, on location.

November 23, 1960 Elvis Presley's first post-Army film, G.I. Blues, is released in theaters.

May 13, 1960 The juvenile delinquent movie Platinum High School, starring Conway Twitty, opens in New York.

May 2, 1960 Production begins on Elvis Presley's first post-Army movie, G.I. Blues.

March 18, 1960 The film Rio Bravo, starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan and John Wayne, premieres in New York City.

October 5, 1959 The famously bad movie Girls' Town, featuring Paul Anka and Mel Tormé, premieres in US theaters.

July 13, 1959 The movie Hound Dog Man, starring Fabian and Dodie Stevens, goes into production.

April 22, 1959 The Alan Freed "Rock and Roll movie" Go, Johnny, Go premieres in New York, featuring Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, The Cadillacs, and The Flamingos.

July 2, 1958 Elvis Presley's fourth movie, King Creole, opens while The King is serving in the Army. Elvis gets surprisingly good reviews for his acting.

June 7, 1958 The movie High School Confidential, featuring Jerry Lee Lewis, opens.

May 12, 1958 The movie Let's Rock, with Paul Anka, Danny & the Juniors and The Royal Teens, opens.

January 20, 1958 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice, which allows him a 60-day deferment to finish his film King Creole.

December 16, 1957 Pat Boone's "April Love" hits #1 in the US for the first of six weeks. The song is from the movie of the same name starring Boone and Shirley Jones.

December 7, 1957 The movie Jamboree, featuring a scene where Jerry Lee Lewis performs "Great Balls of Fire," debuts in theaters. Also appearing in the film are Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Frankie Avalon and Connie Francis.

November 8, 1957 Elvis Presley's third movie, Jailhouse Rock, opens nationally. It had a premiere a few weeks earlier at the Memphis theater where Elvis was once an usher.

October 17, 1957 The Elvis Presley film Jailhouse Rock premieres in Memphis, Tennessee.

September 24, 1957 The movie Mister Rock And Roll, starring the famous disc jockey Alan Freed, debuts in America. In the film, Freed tells the story of Rock and Roll, with performances by Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon and Brook Benton.

July 9, 1957 Elvis Presley's second film, Loving You, has its US premiere (Elvis does not attend since he got a special showing the night before).

February 22, 1957 Gladys and Vernon Presley, Elvis' parents, are filmed in the audience as their son performs "Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do" for Loving You. After his mother's death, Elvis will never watch the scene again.