Aside from being a music icon, Elvis Presley was also a movie star who was a big fan of Hollywood films.
According to his ex-wife Priscilla Presley, some of his favourite movies included It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, Mr Skeffington, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Wuthering Heights and Fredric March’s Les Misérables.
Writing in her autobiography Elvis and Me, she also noted: “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 film’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 adapted into a movie last year called Priscilla.