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It Happened at the World's Fair
Directed by Norman Taurog
Produced by Ted Richmond
Written by Si Rose
Seaman Jacobs
Starring Elvis Presley
Joan O'Brien
Gary Lockwood
Vicky Tiu
Music by Leith Stevens
Cinematography Joseph Ruttenberg, ASC
Editing by Fredric Steinkamp
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) April 3, 1963
Running time 105 min.
Language English
Preceded by Girls! Girls! Girls!
Followed by Fun in Acapulco

It Happened at the World's Fair is a 1963 musical film starring Elvis Presley as a cropdusting pilot.

The motion picture was filmed in Seattle, Washington, site of the Century 21 Exposition, the 1962 World's Fair. The governor of Washington at the time, Albert Rosellini, suggested the setting to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives.

The Seattle Center, including the Seattle Center Monorail and the Space Needle, serve as backdrops for several scenes in the film. Security officers pursue Presley and the girl through the fountains at what is now the Pacific Science Center. The truck drives by the largest wooden trestle in the Pacific Northwest, the Wilburton Trestle, which is located in Bellevue.

Contents

Plot

Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose uncle has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.

Primary cast

  • Elvis Presley: Mike Edwards, cropduster pilot
  • Joan O'Brien: Diane Warren, World's Fair nurse and eventual love interest of Edwards
  • Gary Lockwood: Danny Burke, Mike's gambling-addicted business partner
  • Vicky Tiu: Sue-Lin, a young girl befriended by Edwards
  • Yvonne Craig: Dorothy Johnson, a love interest of Mike's
  • H. M. Wynant: Vince Bradley, crooked associate of Danny's
  • Kam Tong: Walter Ling, Sue-Lin's uncle

Kurt Russell had an uncredited speaking role as a boy who Mike Edwards pays 25¢ to kick him, thus giving him a chance to visit Nurse Warren. Coincidentally, Russell would play or appear as Presley three additional times: The first was in the made for TV film, Elvis. The second was to provide the voice for Elvis in Forrest Gump. And the third was in 3000 Miles to Graceland, where he portrayed an Elvis impersonator.

Vicky Tiu, sister of entertainer Ginny Tiu, later grew up to be the first lady of Hawaiʻi when she married Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano.

Diane (O'Donnell) Patelli had an uncredited role as the Space Needle elevator operator.

Soundtrack

It Happened at the World's Fair
Soundtrack by Elvis Presley
Released April 10, 1963
Genre Rock and roll
Rock music
Elvis Presley chronology
Girls! Girls! Girls!
(1962)		 It Happened at the World's Fair
(1963)		 Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3
(1963)

The soundtrack was recorded at Radio Recorders studios in Hollywood, California in September 1962 and released as a music album in April 1963 with the same title as the movie.

The song "One Broken Heart For Sale" has an additional verse in the movie. This verse was cut from album and single release. The verse is : "Hey Cupid, where are you? / My heart is growing sadder / That girl rejected me / Just when I thought I had her"

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Beyond the Bend" (Ben Weisman, Dolores Fuller, Fred Wise)
  2. "Relax" (Roy C. Bennett, Sid Tepper)
  3. "Take Me to the Fair" (Roy C. Bennett, Sid Tepper)
  4. "They Remind Me Too Much of You" (Don Robertson)
  5. "One Broken Heart for Sale" (Otis Blackwell, Winfield Scott)

Side 2

  1. "I'm Falling in Love Tonight" (Otis Blackwell, Winfield Scott)
  2. "Cotton Candy Land" (Bob Roberts, Ruth Bachelor)
  3. "World of Our Own" (Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye)
  4. "How Would You Like to Be" (Ben Raleigh, Mark Barkan)
  5. "Happy Ending" (Ben Weisman, Sid Wayne)

Recording musicians

See also

External links

DVD Reviews

The films of Norman Taurog
1920s
Lucky Boy • The Diplomats • In Holland • The Medicine Men
1930s
Troopers Three (with B. Reeves Eason) • Sunny Skies • Hot Curves • Follow the Leader • Finn and Hattie • Skippy • Newly Rich • Huckleberry Finn • Sooky • Hold 'Em Jail • The Phantom President • If I Had a Million (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue") • A Bedtime Story • The Way to Love • We're Not Dressing • Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • College Rhythm • The Big Broadcast of 1936 • Strike Me Pink • Rhythm on the Range • Reunion • Fifty Roads to Town • You Can't Have Everything • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Mad About Music • Boys Town • The Girl Downstairs • Lucky Night
1940s
Broadway Melody of 1940 • Young Tom Edison • Little Nellie Kelly • Men of Boys Town • Design for Scandal • Are Husbands Necessary? • A Yank at Eton • Presenting Lily Mars • Girl Crazy (with Busby Berkley) • The Hoodlum Saint • The Beginning or the End • The Bride Goes Wild • Big City • Words and Music • That Midnight Kiss
1950s
1960s
Television
Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) (with Alan Handley, Christian Nyby, Roy Rowland, King Vidor, William A. Wellman and Bud Yorkin)







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