"Live a Little, Love a Little"

Elvis is late for work at his job as a photographer at the Hollywood Citizen-News in Norman Taurog's "Live a Little, Love a Little" (MGM, 1968). Up the street on Hollywood Blvd. we get a view of the towers atop the Warner Hollywood, 6433 Hollywood Blvd.

The film also features Michele Carey, Don Porter, Rudy Vallee, Dick Sargent, Sterling Holloway and Celeste Yarnall. The cinematography was by Fred J. Koenekamp.

See the pages on the Los Angeles Theatres site about the Warner Hollywood for a history of the theatre, opened in 1928. By the time of the Spring 1968 shoot for this film it had been renamed the Hollywood Pacific. Elvis loses his job but we get a fine tour of the press room and a fistfight as well.

The Hollywood Citizen-News building on the left has been rebuilt as restaurant, Mother Wolf. The hotel building beyond is now called Mama Shelter. Thanks to Adam Taylor for calling attention to the appearance of this Wilcox Ave. shot in a post on the Facebook group Lost Angeles.

 

Elvis later heads up to the Music Center for another photo assignment. That's the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the background.

 

An obnoxious assistant to the photo subjects insists that the light is no longer good. Elvis gives him a reflector to hold. 

 

 It's the old "back up a little more" gag with the guy being ending up in the pool in front of the Mark Taper Forum. 

See the pages about the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Mark Taper Forum on the Los Angeles Theatres site for more about these theatres.

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