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Allan Weiss Passed Away

March 28, 2017 | People

Allan Weiss, Writer on 6 Elvis Presley Movies, Died at 90. He was there in 1956 for the singer's first Hollywood screen test. Screenwriter Allan Weiss, who was on hand to witness Elvis Presley's first Hollywood screen test and worked on six of the singer's movies in the 1960s, has died. Weiss died Thursday at a nursing facility in Mission Viejo, Calif., his nephew, Ken Maas, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Weiss provided the story for Presley's Blue Hawaii (1961) and wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for the films Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Fun in Acapulco (1963), Roustabout (1964), Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) and Easy Come, Easy Go (1967).

Weiss once noted that to write a screenplay for an Elvis movie, "You had to make room for 12 songs, and they had to be integrated." He and Anthony Lawrence's script for Roustabout was nominated for a WGA award for best movie musical that year, losing out to Mary Poppins.

Source:Hollywood Reporter
dailyone wrote on March 30, 2017
hello there , a long and good innings rest in peace will remember him in the credits of the great films of elvis during the 60's . Script for Fun in Acapulco had everything in it singer , lifeguard and circus performer , good script .