Tim Maguire

LIFE Magazine – 1st Issue

The movie Girls! Girls! Girls! is a musical comedy starring Elvis Presley. The song 
"Return to Sender", which reached number-two on the Billboard pop singles chart,
is featured in the movie. It was the second of three films Presley shot on location
in Hawaii.

Elvis checking a shot behind the camera

Time magazine presented its cover in color for the first time. The
subject was Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

Time, founded in 1923, has the world’s largest circulation for a weekly news
magazine, and has a readership of 25 million, 20 million of which are based
in the United States.

The epic historical drama film Ben-Hur was directed by William Wyler,
produced by Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Charlton
Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith and Haya Harareet. It
is a remake of the 1925 silent film with the same name. The movie had the
largest budget ($15.175 million) as well as the largest sets built of any film
produced at the time.

Ben-Hur was photographed using MGM’s 65mm anamorphic
widescreen format, Camera 65 shown above with director
William Wyler.

"Boogie On Reggae Woman" continued Wonder’s successful Top Ten streak
on the pop charts, reaching number three and also spent two weeks at number
one on the soul charts. Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1975.

Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Judkins) turned 65 on May 13.