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Music/ElvisPresley's 28th feature film, ''Live a Little, Love a Little'' is a 1968 {{Screwball|Comedy}} RomanticComedy directed by Creator/NormanTaurog.
Creator/NormanTaurog, adapted from the 1965 novel ''Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips'' by humorist Dan Greenburg.[[note]]Greenburg was married to Creator/NoraEphron when this movie came out[[/note]]
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* POVCam: When Greg realizes Bernice got him fired and evicted, he drives to her house and the camera shifts to his perspective as he walks up to her door and barges through it to confront her.
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* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Bernice offers to scrub Greg's back while he's in the shower, which he declines. She suggests he's afraid of losing control and "attacking" her, to which Greg replies he never loses control and lets her scrub his back to prove it. He has enough of it when she messes with him by scrubbing his ass and tells her to get out.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Watch Elvis click with all these chicks!]]'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Watch Elvis click with all these chicks!]]'']]
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* CastingGag: Elvis appearing alongside Rudy Vallee, who as a massively popular pop music idol was basically the Elvis of TheRoaringTwenties.
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* GenreRoulette: The soundtrack is very interesting, consisting of four songs performed in a variety of styles, none of which really fit into the usual Presley musical formula. "A Little Less Conversation" is uptempo {{Soul}}, "Wonderful World" is a vaguely European-sounding pop tune (it in fact had originally been written as a possible Series/EurovisionSongContest entry), "Almost in Love" is a BossaNova-tinged ballad, and "Edge of Reality" is the only real attempt at PsychedelicRock that Elvis ever tried (though it would be a stretch to call it "rock").
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* GenreRoulette: The soundtrack is very interesting, consisting of four songs performed in a variety of styles, none of which really fit into the usual Presley musical formula. "A Little Less Conversation" is uptempo {{Soul}}, "Wonderful World" is a vaguely European-sounding pop tune waltz (it in fact had originally been written as a possible Series/EurovisionSongContest entry), "Almost in Love" is a BossaNova-tinged ballad, and "Edge of Reality" is the only real attempt at PsychedelicRock that Elvis ever tried (though it would be a stretch to call it "rock").
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* HotterAndSexier: Easily the raciest Elvis movie, with the implied sexual encounter and the PlayboyParody arguably making it a very mild SexComedy.
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* HotterAndSexier: Easily the raciest Elvis movie, with the implied sexual encounter sex-related themes and the PlayboyParody arguably making it a very mild SexComedy.
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Nowadays it's best known as the origin of "A Little Less Conversation".
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* GenreRoulette: The soundtrack is very interesting, consisting of four songs performed in a variety of styles, none of which really fit into the usual Presley musical formula. "A Little Less Conversation" is uptempo {{Soul}}, "Wonderful World" is a vaguely European-sounding pop tune (it in fact had originally been written as a possible Series/EurovisionSongContest entry), "Almost in Love" is a BossaNova-tinged ballad, and "Edge of Reality" is the only real attempt at PsychedelicRock that Elvis ever tried (though it would be a stretch to call it "rock").
* HotterAndSexier: Easily the raciest Elvis movie, with the implied sexual encounter and the PlayboyParody arguably making it a very mild SexComedy.
* HotterAndSexier: Easily the raciest Elvis movie, with the implied sexual encounter and the PlayboyParody arguably making it a very mild SexComedy.
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* PlayboyParody: The magazine run by Mike Lansdown prizes itself on its naughty pictures. His female employees dress up in PlayboyBunny-like outfits, except they're cat-themed.
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* PlayboyParody: The magazine run by Mike Lansdown prizes prides itself on its naughty pictures. His female employees dress up in PlayboyBunny-like outfits, except they're cat-themed.
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* PlayboyParody: The magazine run by Mike Lansdown prizes itself on its naughty pictures. His female employees dress up in PlayboyBunny-like outfits, except they're cat-themed.
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* {{Bookends}}: At the beginning of the story, Greg and Bernice meet on the beach and kiss, with Bernice siccing Albert on Greg when he tells her he didn't feel anything from the kiss. At the end, they're back on the beach, declare their feelings for each other and kiss, and Bernice teases Greg by saying she didn't feel anything, so Greg sics Albert on her as revenge.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Rare female version; the reason for Bernice's weird behavior, as explained by Harry, is that she is desperate for a guy to have satisfying sex with; all previous attempts with other guys ended in her interrupting the process before going all the way. Greg in the end manages to give her what she wants.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Rare female version; the reason for Bernice's weird behavior, as explained by Harry, is that she is desperate for a guy to she can have satisfying sex with; all previous attempts with other guys ended in her interrupting the process before going all the way. Greg in the end manages at first resists her, but gradually grows more attracted to give her what she wants.and eventually they sleep together, with Bernice thanking him for making her a woman.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In the "Edge of Reality" sequence, Bernice changes into three women; one is a blonde, one is a brunette and one is a redhead.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In the "Edge of Reality" sequence, Bernice changes into three women; one is a blonde, one is a brunette and one is a redhead. They are metaphors for the different identities she gives to men.
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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: After Bernice pretends to injure herself at Greg's house, she spends some time there sleeping in his bed as she "recovers", while he sleeps on the couch. She takes the couch apart so he is forced to sleep with her, but he puts a board between them so nothing happens. After he gets fired, Greg throws the board out the window in a rage and makes love to Bernice.
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Music/ElvisPresley's 29th feature film, ''Live a Little, Love a Little'' is a 1968 romantic comedy directed by Creator/NormanTaurog.
Presley is Greg Nolan, a photographer who has a fateful beachside encounter with a whimsical woman named Bernice (Creator/MicheleCarey). Greg spurns Bernice's advances, so she makes her Great Dane dog, Albert, chase Greg into the ocean. Bernice convinces Greg to dry himself at her house and drugs him into sleeping for days. Upon waking up, Greg discovers Bernice has turned his life upside down by getting him fired from his job and evicted. She buys him a larger house and Greg, as annoyed as he is at her, still feels compelled to repay her. To that end, he takes on two different jobs; one at a nude magazine run by Mike Lansdown (Creator/DonPorter) and one at a sophisticated advertising firm run by Mr. Penlow (Creator/RudyVallee). Greg has to juggle his two jobs, which are on the same building and have conflicting schedules, and tries to make sense of his relationship with Bernice.
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Bernice puts garlic in Albert's food, showing that she likes her beloved dog to have fancy meals. However, garlic in reality is toxic to dogs.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In the "Edge of Reality" sequence, Bernice changes into three women; one is a blonde, one is a brunette and one is a redhead.
* DisneyAcidSequence: Greg has a dream in which he dons a shiny blue suit, is in a vague place filled with changing blue, pink and yellow lights and is warned by apparitions of the various characters he has met to get away from Bernice. Then he sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Skrq8unUlE "Edge of Reality"]], where he dances with Bernice, who keeps changing into different women.
* IAteWhat: Bernice taste-tests some food she's making on Greg. Once he approves, Bernice calls for Albert saying that lunch is ready, revealing Greg just ate dog food. Cue Greg gagging and making a run for the sink.
* IHaveManyNames: Bernice capriciously uses different names with different men. When she first meets Greg, she introduces herself as Alice. To the delivery boy, she is Susie, and to the milkman, she is Betty. Bernice is the one that Greg settles on because that's what her friendly ex, Harry, who recurs most frequently throughout the film, calls her.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: The things Bernice does to keep Greg around (drugging him, making him lose his job and house while he sleeps for days, threatening to sic her dog on him if he displeases her) would be intensely creepy if the genders were reversed. As it is, they are only presented as the absurd antics of a desperate {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and Greg is, at worst, annoyed.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Bernice claims that she is a widow and was known as Mrs. Baby, and Greg reacts with disbelief at the name. As it turns out, her "husband" Harry Baby is very much real and alive, but he's just an ex that Bernice is still close to.
Presley is Greg Nolan, a photographer who has a fateful beachside encounter with a whimsical woman named Bernice (Creator/MicheleCarey). Greg spurns Bernice's advances, so she makes her Great Dane dog, Albert, chase Greg into the ocean. Bernice convinces Greg to dry himself at her house and drugs him into sleeping for days. Upon waking up, Greg discovers Bernice has turned his life upside down by getting him fired from his job and evicted. She buys him a larger house and Greg, as annoyed as he is at her, still feels compelled to repay her. To that end, he takes on two different jobs; one at a nude magazine run by Mike Lansdown (Creator/DonPorter) and one at a sophisticated advertising firm run by Mr. Penlow (Creator/RudyVallee). Greg has to juggle his two jobs, which are on the same building and have conflicting schedules, and tries to make sense of his relationship with Bernice.
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Bernice puts garlic in Albert's food, showing that she likes her beloved dog to have fancy meals. However, garlic in reality is toxic to dogs.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In the "Edge of Reality" sequence, Bernice changes into three women; one is a blonde, one is a brunette and one is a redhead.
* DisneyAcidSequence: Greg has a dream in which he dons a shiny blue suit, is in a vague place filled with changing blue, pink and yellow lights and is warned by apparitions of the various characters he has met to get away from Bernice. Then he sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Skrq8unUlE "Edge of Reality"]], where he dances with Bernice, who keeps changing into different women.
* IAteWhat: Bernice taste-tests some food she's making on Greg. Once he approves, Bernice calls for Albert saying that lunch is ready, revealing Greg just ate dog food. Cue Greg gagging and making a run for the sink.
* IHaveManyNames: Bernice capriciously uses different names with different men. When she first meets Greg, she introduces herself as Alice. To the delivery boy, she is Susie, and to the milkman, she is Betty. Bernice is the one that Greg settles on because that's what her friendly ex, Harry, who recurs most frequently throughout the film, calls her.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: The things Bernice does to keep Greg around (drugging him, making him lose his job and house while he sleeps for days, threatening to sic her dog on him if he displeases her) would be intensely creepy if the genders were reversed. As it is, they are only presented as the absurd antics of a desperate {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and Greg is, at worst, annoyed.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Bernice claims that she is a widow and was known as Mrs. Baby, and Greg reacts with disbelief at the name. As it turns out, her "husband" Harry Baby is very much real and alive, but he's just an ex that Bernice is still close to.
