Anne Helm with Elvis in jeans. She kindly replied to a letter from me and sent us a similiar photo to this one from the movie "Follow That Dream",along with a nice letter.
"Follow That Dream" was the song played on RTE1 radio Ireland announcing our trip to Memphis in August 1997. Elvis expert Joe Jackson of "The Irish Times" accompanied us with a lady from BMG Records, Ireland. A documentary of our trip was broadcast on radio May 1998.
To the left, middle photo shows Elvis as a fifteen year old wearing denim jeans with an early girfriend, Betty McMahon.
A new find of Elvis in jeans.
A painting of Elvis in the National Portrait Gallery Washington DC.
There are those that would say Elvis Presley did not like wearing Denim jeans because they were supposed to remind him of his childhood poverty.
Yet the two movies stars he most admired, Marlon Brando and James Dean, were rarely out of them in the 1950s. Elvis is often seen wearing not only jeans in his movies but also matching denim jackets. Famously so in the 1957 movie, "Loving You".
It doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to work out the, Elvis didn't like Jeans, story is another of those myths circulated by a few mislead fans.