<p id=”par-1_53″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/elvis-presley/”>Elvis Presley</a> began to act in <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/movies/”>films</a> in 1956 and would go on to fall for a significant number of his co-stars. He reportedly claimed that he slept with <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-reportedly-claimed-slept-leading-ladies.html/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>all his leading ladies</a> but one. He struck out with his first co-star, though. While Elvis adored her, she wanted nothing romantic to do with him.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-elvis-fell-for-a-co-star-on-the-set-of-his-first-movie”>Elvis fell for a co-star on the set of his first movie</h2>
<p id=”par-2_33″>In 1956, Elvis made his film debut in<em> <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-presleys-love-me-tender-written-munchkin-the-wizard-of-oz.html/”>Love Me Tender</a></em>. He acted alongside Debra Paget, who transfixed Elvis. His bodyguard, Sonny West, even believed that Elvis tried to model Priscilla Presley after Paget.</p>
<p id=”par-3_64″>“If you look at her in those earlier pictures, you will see she had a decided likeness to Priscilla Presley, whom he was soon to meet,” Sonny West said in the book <em>Elvis: What Happened?</em> by Steve Dunleavy. “She had black hair. When Elvis first met Priscilla he got her to dye her hair black. I think it’s significant that his mother had black hair, too.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_34″>Elvis and Paget bonded on set, but his feelings for her went further than friendship. He had a passionate crush on her and reportedly even proposed to her. Paget did not reciprocate the feeling. </p>
<p id=”par-5_29″>“I guess the way it went was that Debra really thought Elvis was just a nice handsome kid,” Sonny West said. “She wasn’t the least bit interested in him.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-another-one-of-elvis-co-stars-had-no-interest-in-him”>Another one of Elvis’ co-stars had no interest in him</h2>
<p id=”par-6_30″>Elvis’ final leading lady also did not fall for his charm. Mary Tyler Moore, with whom he starred in <em>Change of Habit</em>, discovered that Elvis had a shy crush on her.</p>
<p id=”par-7_20″>“[Elvis] confessed right from the start that he’d had a crush on me <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dick-van-dyke-never-appeared-mary-tyler-moore-show-brother.html/”>since <em>The Dick Van Dyke Show</em>,</a>” Moore wrote, per <a href=”https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1403987/elvis-presley-mary-tyler-moore-affair-romance-crush-change-of-habit-movies-films-interview” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Express</a>. </p>
<p id=”par-8_17″>He seemed timid and starstruck around her. While she liked him, she said he wasn’t her type.</p>
<p id=”par-9_53″>“I was his last leading lady,” she told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.abilitymagazine.com/moore_interview.html” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Ability Magazine</a>. “And it was funny because not that many years after the film was finished, he was quoted as saying, ‘I’ve slept with every one of my leading ladies except one.’ I don’t want to bust anyone’s cover, but I know who the one is.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-priscilla-presley-grew-exhausted-of-the-affairs-he-had-with-other-actors”>Priscilla Presley grew exhausted of the affairs he had with other actors</h2>
<p id=”par-10_66″>Elvis had not yet met Priscilla Presley while he was chasing Paget. They were a couple, however, for many of the other films Elvis shot. Often, Elvis would be away on set while Priscilla read gossip columns detailing his flirtations with his co-stars. This grew taxing after a while. Priscilla finally snapped when she read that Elvis had proposed to his <em>Viva Las Vegas</em> co-star Ann-Margret.</p>
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<p id=”par-11_39″>“I picked up a flower vase and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-affair-ann-margret-priscilla-presley-throw-vase.html/”>hurled it across the room</a>, shattering it against the wall,” she wrote in her book <em>Elvis and Me</em>. “‘I hate her!’ I shouted. ‘Why doesn’t she keep her a** in Sweden where she belongs?’”</p>
<p id=”par-12_22″>Though Elvis continually denied these rumors, he told Priscilla he wanted a partner who would understand that things like this could happen.</p>