Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [384]
319 “It was literally the smoking gun”: Suzanne Finstad to author, 2009.
CHAPTER TWENTY
322 “Have two years of sobering army life”: press conference, Fort Dix, New Jersey, March 3, 1960.
322 “Are you leaving any special girl”: press conference, Brooklyn, New York, September 22, 1958.
322 “It was a very difficult parting”: Priscilla Presley, “An Interview with Priscilla,” by Bill E. Burk, Elvis World magazine, no. 23, based on the RUR show on Veronica TV in Amsterdam, Holland, probably 1992.
322 “Now, gentlemen”: Elvis Presley, press conference, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, March 7, 1960.
323 “He was standing right there”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
324 “I want you to do it”: Rex Mansfield, quoting Minnie Mae Presley in “Rex and Elisabeth Mansfield,” by Piers Beagley, on the Web site Elvis Information Network, August 2002.
324 “I was directly behind him”: Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
325 “Daddy, . . . are you sure you want to do this?”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
325 “She seems pretty nice”: Elvis Presley, quoted in the Memphis Press-Scimitar, July 17, 1960.
325 “He kept asking me”: Leticia Roman, from the Web site Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen.
325 “Man, I’ll tell you”: Sonny West quoting Elvis Presley in West, Sonny, and Terrill, Marshall, Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business.
326 “You don’t have to put”: Norman Taurog, quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1965.
326 “A few days being around him”: “Interview with Sonny West,” by Scott Jenkins, on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 13, 2005.
326 “Elvis would open that door”: Sonny West in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
326 “He said Juliet”: Lamar Fike to author, 1993.
326 “He’s really”: Juliet Prowse, quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1965.
326 “He had a wonderful sense of humor”: Juliet Prowse in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
327 “Man, you gotta meet Marilyn Monroe”: Byron Raphael quoting Gene Smith to author, 2005. Portions of the Byron Raphael material originally appeared in the Playboy magazine article “In Bed with Elvis,” by Byron Raphael and Alanna Nash, November 2005.
328 “No . . . I’ve got to go to sleep”: Sandy Ferra Martindale, quoted in People magazine, August 18, 1997.
328 “I said, ‘Elvis, she is only fourteen’ ”: Mary Lou Ferra in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
329 “In school the next day”: Sandy Ferra Martindale, quoted in People magazine, August 18, 1997.
329 “He loved my mom”: Sandy Ferra Martindale in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
329 “I want to ask you something”: Mary Lou Ferra quoting Elvis Presley in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
329 “Elvis was quite surprised”: Sandy Ferra Martindale, quoted in Elvis World, no. 44.
329 “I was making $100”: Ibid.
329 “What a great life”: Sandy Ferra Martindale in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
329 “We would kiss for hours”: Ibid.
329 “There were no expectations”: Sandy Ferra Martindale, quoted in Elvis World, no. 44.
329 “Don’t ever wear pants again!”: Ibid.
330 “He pulled this article out”: Sandy Ferra Martindale in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
330 “Forget him, honey”: Ann Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
330 “he was not afraid”: Tom Muldoon, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
330 “She and Tom Stewart”: Suzanne Finstad to author, 2009.
330 “this child”: Suzanne Finstad to author, 2009.
331 “The parents would say”: Al Corey, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
331 “I stayed with Grandma a lot when he was gone”: Anita Wood to author, 2009.
331 “There was a lot to go around”: Lamar Fike to Larry King, CNN, December