Michael Hoey who became a screenwriter, director and producer, working on six of Elvis Presley's films which included Live A Little, Love A Little , has written a book about his Hollywood upbringing and career "Elvis, Sherlock and Me: How I Survived Growing Up in Hollywood"

 

As an associate producer, Hoey met director Norman Taurog, who worked on nine films starring Elvis Presley. Hoey eventually become a screenwriter for six Presley films, and his book is filled with stories about working with The King, who he found to be a vivacious prankster. He loved jokes, especially practical jokes. On more than one occasion Presley and his entourage, known as The Memphis Mafia, ran through a movie set hurling water balloons at each other.

 

Hoey added that Presley had an appetite to match his personality: He'd send someone for a box of doughnuts and eat the entire thing himself.

 

That said, it wasn't easy getting close to The King. Presley often appeared to be aloof; in time, Hoey realized he was terribly shy. He thinks that's why the Memphis Mafia – made up of relatives and Army and school buddies – followed him wherever he'd go.

 

"Between takes, he wouldn't hang around on set. He'd go hang with the guys," Hoey said.

 

In his book, Hoey writes that Presley would sometimes mistreat his entourage, but he had a softer side, too. Shortly after the birth of his daughter, Lisa Marie, Presley spied Hoey on the set of a film and waved him over. They walked to another set, decorated as a bedroom. Presley laid out five or six photographs of his daughter on the bed, beaming over them and saying "That's my little girl."

 

Hoey worked with Presley until 1968. Shortly afterward, Presley returned to a hard-living life on tour, taking diet pills to keep his weight down, and downers to sleep after taking diet pills, Hoey said. The combined addiction is what Hoey believes led to his early death.

 

Source /ocregister.com.

 

Here’s some pics of Michael Hoey on the set with Elvis

 

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/mhoey1.jpg

 

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/mhoey.jpg

 

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Interview on EIN with Michael Hoey B)

 

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/interview_michaelhoey.html

 

Thanks for posting that carole, i love to read all these articles you put up, and some great pics too

 

Elvis was a little minx wasn't he? :yahoo: