On November 15, 1956, Love Me Tender, featuring the singer
Elvis Presley in his big-screen debut, premiered in New York
City at the Paramount Theater. Set in Texas following the
American Civil War, the film, which co-starred Richard Egan
and Debra Paget, featured Elvis as Clint Reno, the younger
brother of a Confederate soldier.

Originally titled The Reno Brothers, the movie was renamed
Love Me Tender before its release, after a song of the same
name that Reno sings during the film.

Anthony Tiran "Tony" Todd (1954 – 1924)

(AP) — Actor Tony Todd, known for his haunting portrayal of
a killer in the horror film “Candyman” (1992) and roles in many
other films and television shows, is dead. He was 69.

Todd’s films include Platoon (1986)
as Sergeant Warren.

On November 4, 1990, Dances with Wolves, a film about an
American Civil War–era soldier and a group of Sioux Native
Americans that stars Kevin Costner and also marks his
directorial debut, premieres in Los Angeles.

Dances with Wolves took home seven Oscars, including Best
Picture and Best Director, and solidified Costner’s place on
Hollywood’s A-list.

Ronald Pierce Ely
(June 21, 1938 – September 29, 2024)

Ron Ely died at the home of one of his daughters in
Santa Barbara on September 29, 2024. His death
was not made public until his daughter Kristen
revealed it today.

Ely is best known for having portrayed Tarzan in the
1966–1968 NBC series Tarzan and for playing the
lead role in the film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
(1975). He hosted the Miss America pageant telecast
in 1980 and 1981.

He already had a few TV credits to his name at the time, the
first being an episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1959
on CBS, a 31- year – old Robert Duvall introduced himself
to many audiences in 1962 with a silent and inscrutable 
stare with his film debut as Boo Radley, the harmless
oddball neighbor in the Robert Mulligan-directed, Horton
Foote-written adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a
Mockingbird.
 

 

Robert Selden Duvall will be 94 on January
5, 2025.