Elvis Presley | The Ed Sullivan Show Dress Rehearsals | October 28, 1956

Elvis attended a dress rehearsal for the show on the 28th.

Also a a big cut-out of him on the top of the Times Square Paramount Theater was unveilecd promoting the premiere of Love Me Tender. He also gave a press conference, which he handled in a 'polite, personable, quick-witted and charming' manner. About his influence on teenagers Elvis stated: 'My Bible tells me that what he sows he will also reap, and if I'm sowing evil and wickedness it will catch up with me.

If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this'. Elvis got inoculated with the new polio vaccine as part of a public service announcement for the March of Dimes.

'October 28, 1956: Droves of fans and curious Sunday afternoon strollers crowd outside the Paramount Theater where a 40-foot figure of rock 'n' roll idol Elvis Presley was unveiled earlier today'.

Crowds gather to see Elvis : October 28, 1956.
Crowds gather to see Elvis : October 28, 1956.

Crowds gather to see Elvis : October 28, 1956.
Crowds gather to see Elvis : October 28, 1956.

Below, Elvis signs some autographs with British comedienne Joyce Grenfell seen in the background, who starred in the same Ed Sullivan show. From Joyce Grenfell's autobiography 'In Pleasant Places', Joyce recalls that when she arrived at the CBS Studio at two o'clock that afternoon, there were barricades on West 56th Street to hold back the crowds of girls who had been there since early morning hoping to catch a glimpse of Elvis.

Elvis signs some autographs with British comedienne Joyce Grenfell seen in the background.
Elvis signs some autographs with British comedienne Joyce Grenfell seen in the background.

Diary entry 28th October 1956: Elvis is a pasty-faced plump boy of twenty one. At rehearsal he wore a navy blue sweater with red stripes round the yoke. His hair isn't long and his sideburns arn't that long either. For the show he wore a Kelly green jacket, grey pants and white buckskin desert boots. When he was introduced to me he said, as he looked away 'Nice to know you honey'. I asked him if all the adulation was very trying.

He called me ma'am and said. 'I don't want to brag, but I'm kinda used to it now. It's been goin' on a year' I thought he was pleasant, a bit of a roly-ploy boy, but a good singer of his sort of hillbilly songs. We were photographed together. He put his arm round my neck and breathed down my ear-hole.

Elvis signs some autographs with British comedienne Joyce Grenfell seen in the background.
Elvis signs some autographs with British comedienne Joyce Grenfell seen in the background.

Dress Rehearsals

Elvis Presley : The Dress Rehearsal : The Ed Sullivan Show : October 28, 1956.
Elvis Presley : The Dress Rehearsal : The Ed Sullivan Show : October 28, 1956.

Gordon Stoker : Ed Sullivan was a very warm person, extremely warm, Ed only came to the actual filming of the show, he didn't come to the dress rehearsal, and actually when Ed walked over to him, and shook his hands, it was the first time that the Jordanaires and Elvis, D.J. Fontana and Scotty Moore had met Mr Sullivan, and yet we didn't know what to expect, and neither did Elvis, but Elvis looked everything and did everything the best that he could do, when he was on the Sullivan he was determined to do a super job.

Elvis Presley : The Dress Rehearsal : The Ed Sullivan Show : October 28, 1956.
Elvis Presley : The Dress Rehearsal : The Ed Sullivan Show : October 28, 1956.

Elvis Presley : The Dress Rehearsal : The Ed Sullivan Show : October 28, 1956.
Elvis Presley : The Dress Rehearsal : The Ed Sullivan Show : October 28, 1956.

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January 1956

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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1957

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