By 1966, Presley, having lost any real interest in the movies he was doing, had started to
get interested in philosophy, religion and books. During the filming of Frankie
and Johnny, he broke with tradition by not dating his co-star Donna
Douglas.
Instead, Presley took a genuine intellectual interest in her.
Sonny
recalls: “She was quite religious and
talked a lot of sense. Elvis would talk to her and
he started to get interested in books.
He was always quite self-conscious over the fact that he was not
well-read. From there on in, he really started getting into books, all kinds, religion, the occult, the meaning of words, everything. So instead
of dating, they just sort of talked books
and religion.
Text: Red West, Sonny West, Dave Hebler as told to
Steve Dunleavy, Elvis: What Happened?,
New York, Ballantine Books, 1977.
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