Elvis and Priscilla have been left in tears after watching certainly one of his favorite movies | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Aside from being a music icon, Elvis Presley was additionally a film star who was an enormous fan of Hollywood movies.

According to his ex-wife Priscilla Presley, a few of his favorite films included It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on thirty fourth Street, Mr Skeffington, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Wuthering Heights and Fredric March’s Les Misérables.

Writing in her autobiography Elvis and Me, she additionally famous: “We cried ourselves to sleep over The Way of All Flesh, which concerns a banker who plans to carry a large sum of money out of state, only to discover upon awakening the following morning that he has been robbed.

“Stripped of everything, he takes to the streets, surviving among the derelicts, an outcast.

“Years later, one Christmas night, he wanders into his hometown and peers through the window to see his wife and children, now grown, opening their presents.”

Describing the movie’s devastating ending. Priscilla wrote: “Sensing his presence but never recognizing him, his wife takes pity on the lonely old man and invites him in to share the evening with her family. He declines, heading down the snowy street alone. Elvis identified so thoroughly with the story that he toyed with the idea of a remake. He intended to cast [his father] Vernon in the lead role.”

Elvis and Me was tailored right into a film final yr known as Priscilla.