Elvis and the Beauty Queen

Elvis and the Beauty Queen

100 mins | Drama, TV Movie | March 1, 1981

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.

Elvis and the Beauty Queen

100 mins | Drama, TV Movie | March 1, 1981

Elvis and the Beauty Queen
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.
IMDb rating 4.4
Producers Columbia Pictures Television, David Gerber Productions
Original title Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Directors Gus Trikonis
Writers Julia Cameron

Cast

Don Johnson

as Elvis Presley

Stephanie Zimbalist

as Linda Thompson

Ann Dusenberry

as Jeannie

Rick Lenz

as David Briggs (as Richard Lenz)

Ann Wedgeworth

as Aunt Betty

Richard Herd

as Thompson

Jay W. MacIntosh

as Mrs. Thompson

Ruta Lee

as Su-Su

Edward Edwards

as Sam Thompson

John Crawford

as Vernon Presley

Darrell Fetty

as Pete Moore

Richard Winterstein

as Bobby Farr

John Ashton

as Jake

Bobbi Jordan

as Pregnant Woman