Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [388]
370 “the fact that”: Elvis Presley to Lloyd Shearer, August 1962, “Face to Face with Elvis,” CD.
370 “At first I said no”: Ann Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
370 “I want to drive her through the gates”: Patsy Presley quoting Elvis Presley in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
371 “When we drove though those gates”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
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373 “The first time I saw Priscilla”: Patsy Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
373 “Someone’s waiting to see you”: Priscilla Presley quoting Elvis Presley in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
373 “I feel like I can confide in you”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
373 “These pills will relax you”: Priscilla Presley quoting Elvis Presley in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
373 “It scared the hell”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
374 “You haven’t missed anything”: Priscilla Presley quoting Elvis Presley in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
374 “More and more”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
374 “You got the idea she was his one true love”: Patsy Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
374 “Here she comes”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
374 “like a fifteen-year-old kid”: Ricky Stanley, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
374 “We sat and talked”: Marty Lacker to author, 1994.
375 “He’d accuse me”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
375 “You’ll finish your senior year”: Priscilla Presley quoting Elvis Presley in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
376 “I’ve been talking with my dad”: Letter, Priscilla Beaulieu to Elvis Presley, reproduced as illustration in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
376 “I was enormously resistant”: Paul Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
376 “You hear about people”: Ann Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
376 “Elvis pledged to care for her”: Paul Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
377 “I kissed my father good-bye”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
377 “sent her ahead”: Commercial Appeal, April 2, 1963.
377 “My boss called him Joe”: Phillip Barber to author, 2009.
378 “My feelings were mixed”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
378 “Her mom more or less”: Jamie Lindberg, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
379 “I come from a background”: Jackie DeShannon in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
379 “No chips, no dips”: Garr, Teri, and Mantel, Henriette, Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood.
380 “I was embarrassed”: Alan Fortas to author, 1989.
380 “He didn’t think”: Mindi Miller to author, 2009. All Mindi Miller quotes come from this interview.
380 “The only way”: Ursula Andress, quoted in “El’s Leading Ladies,” by Gerry McLafferty, Elvis: The Man and His Music, issue 83, 2009.
380 “She went after him”: “Interview with Sonny West,” by Scott Jenkins, on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 13, 2005.
380 “We had to do”: Allan Weiss to author, 2001.
380 “worthless movies”: “Nashville Skyline: Elvis, Hank, Michael: Killed by Fame,” by Chet Flippo, the Web site CMT, July 2, 2009.
380 “That kid”: Anne Fulchino to author, 1998.
381 “She had jet-black hair”: e-mail, Jacque Carter Parsley to author, 2009.
381 “Elvis expected her to be totally loyal”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
381 “Somebody said, ‘Jim Morrison’ ”: Siouxzan Perry to author, 2009. Seventeen-year-old actress Lori Williams, another of the Russ Meyer girls, was one who dated him. She says their “courtship was not some bizarre story. It was very sweet and Elvis was the perfect gentleman.” See Lisanti, Tom, Drive-In Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties, 2003.
381 “He did not want me in Hollywood”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by