The proposed contract remains in the Graceland archives to this day and would have asked a lot of The King who had not made a movie in several years, including $1,000 a week in Elvis expenses including first-class transportation. Not only that, but it’s a requirement that his name be in first place, with 100 percent of the title above the title on the label.
Elvis’ manager also didn’t want his client to be portrayed as having a career in entertainment, even though The King’s concert tours continued to pack up spots. Additionally, Ernest Jorgensen said in Elvis Day By Day that Parker demanded a million dollar salary for King, even though the last time he worked on a movie was A Change of Habit in 1969.
Negotiations with The Colonel failed and Elvis was unable to act again in A Star is Born, though he may not have been able to afford being second billing to Barbara. Memphis Mafia member Jerry Schilling later said, “There was no way a movie budget could afford my two star salaries and Elvis didn’t care about money. He was smart enough to know that kind of supporting role could be his way back into cinema.”
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