One of Elvis Presley’s post-military films in the early 1960s was Follow That Dream, which has been in cinemas for 61 years today. Anne Helm played The King’s love interest, alongside the King’s cousin who made her big screen debut in a Hollywood movie. Memphis Mafia member Billy Smith shared how he doubled down on Anne while wearing a hat, wig, and balloon breasts in one scene.
Billy, who knew Elvis before he became famous, said: “I went out with him [Elvis] Since I was a little kid. When I first started working with him it was 1961, August. It was in Follow That Dream…my first movie that I’m actually in. Boy, it was such a cool thing to have that experience at that time.” While working on the set of Follow That Dream, Billy said: “My mom and dad had to come down too and my brother, to watch the whole thing shoot, that was another treat.”
And after his son Danny pushed him, Cousin Elvis shared how he ended up doubling up on Anne Helm. The Memphis Mafia member said Hollywood films usually have to announce extras and multiples, but they don’t want to slow down production. So director Gordon Douglas pointed to Billy and told Elvis, “He’s just the right size and I think we can make him back enough to look like Ann so he can double up.” [her]. “
Follow That Dream was originally slated to be called Pioneer, Go Home! , based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Richard Powell. However, producer Walter Mirisch renamed the film after his song Follow That Dream.
The synopsis for the 1962 film reads: “Bob Quimble (Arthur O’Connell), his son Toby (Elvis Presley) and their scattering clan of adopted orphans end up stranded on the side of a road in Florida, so they set up a temporary home on the beach. They are soon ordered off the land by uptight local bureaucrat H. Arthur King (Alan Hewitt), but the state government does not support him. An angry King then proceeds to get his way, using manipulative social worker Alisha Claypole (Joanna Moore) as part of his scheme to evict the Kwimpels.”
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