Episode 56 – Elvis Presley’s CHANGE OF HABIT w/guest Cindy Rogers
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You just watched 31 Elvis movies and you’re looking forward to seeing more? I guess that tells you something about the appeal of the man.
Great discussion and guest! I always enjoy hearing about movies on your podcast, including learning about ones I’ve never seen. I haven’t seen Change of Habit yet, but it sounds like Elvis’s film career ended on a positive note. I’m a fan of the Mary Tyler Moore show, so that’s cool to hear she and Ed Asner were both in the film (although they had no scenes together). Kind of like how Jamie Farr and William Christopher were in a movie together before MASH.
By the way, Jane Elliot, who was in Change of Habit as you noted, went on to become a soap opera star, and she was a guest on the October 11, 2025, episode of a podcast called “That’s Awesome with Steve Burton and Bradford Anderson.” Starting at around the 15-minute mark, she talks for 10 minutes about making Change of Habit, including some really nice stories about her interactions with both Elvis and Mary Tyler Moore.
I’m a HUGE Elvis fan…maybe you should have put out a few feelers before you watched all of Elvis’ fictional films. We could have probably helped you avoid a few stinkers.
Elvis is my one fandom where I don’t have a starting point. My mom was a huge fan and so I don’t remember I time when I wasn’t one. My parents saw Elvis in concert in 1971.
I’m surprised Cindy could narrow down her favorite Elvis song down to one. I’ve only been able to whittle it down to about 25.
A few years ago, Flashback cinema showed the 2000s special edition of Elvis : That’s the Way It Is at theatres. I highly recommend watching it if you get the chance. I always loved the movie but seeing it on the big screen is probably as close to seeing him in concert as I’ll get. Some of the group I went with weren’t even big Elvis fans…before they watched it. They were afterwards.
Since you mentioned Roustabout, did you notice that the two girls Elvis flirted with at the tea house were Raquel Welch and Lynn “Frogs” Borden?
31 Elvis movies over two months! TCM shows at least a few on his birthday since, like, forever. In that time I’ve managed to get in… nine. Fairly random selection, too.
Inside joke by Shelley Fabares on the ’90s sitcom Coach: in a conversation with the coach’s college-aged daughter, her character admitted to falling in with the wildest, rowdiest band of her own youth. She wouldn’t name names. Just saying it was the biggest Rocky Mountain high of her life. As the capper, the young woman shouts out. “It’s killing me you won’t tell me who it is!”