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In 1927, Walter Hale (Presley) becomes the new manager of a traveling Chautauqua company. As the company sets up shop in the sleepy town of Radford Center in Iowa, Walter is faced with the problem of his dissatisfied Story Lady, Charlene (Marlyn Mason), wanting to rally her colleagues into forming a union. Charlene is impressed with the talent of a local girl, Carol (Anissa Jones), whose mother, Nita (Sheree North), despairs of leaving Radford Center for greener pastures. Nita works for drugstore owner Harrison Wilby (Creator/DabneyColeman), whom she also sleeps with. Wilby then turns up dead and one of the Chautauqua members is accused of murder, creating another problem for Walter.
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In 1927, Walter Hale (Presley) becomes the new manager of a traveling Chautauqua company. As the company sets up shop in the sleepy town of Radford Center in Iowa, Walter is faced with the problem of his dissatisfied Story Lady, Charlene (Marlyn Mason), wanting to rally her colleagues into forming a union. Charlene is impressed with the talent of a local girl, Carol (Anissa Jones), (Creator/AnissaJones), whose mother, Nita (Sheree North), despairs of leaving Radford Center for greener pastures. Nita works for drugstore owner Harrison Wilby (Creator/DabneyColeman), whom she also sleeps with. Wilby then turns up dead and one of the Chautauqua members is accused of murder, creating another problem for Walter.
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* AuthorAppeal: Colonel Tom Parker had actually worked in a Chatauqua company in his youth, and that almost certainly played a big part in his agreeing to a deal for Elvis to star in the movie.
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* AuthorAppeal: Colonel Tom Parker UsefulNotes/ColonelTomParker had actually worked in a Chatauqua company in his youth, and that almost certainly played a big part in his agreeing to a deal for Elvis to star in the movie.
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* EitherOrTitle: The full title is ''The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)''.
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* NeverTrustATitle: ''The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)'' implies this is yet another wacky musical with Music/ElvisPresley singing countless songs while romancing a bunch of beauties, when it's actually a PeriodPiece drama that includes a MurderMystery element, and there are only a handful of Elvis songs, which are all done diegetically as part of the Chatauqua performances (or rehearsals).
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* NeverTrustATitle: ''The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)'' is sort of vaguely justified, since Charlene and Nita are the main complication drivers in the plot, but the title implies this is yet another wacky musical with Music/ElvisPresley singing countless songs while romancing a bunch of beauties, when it's actually a PeriodPiece drama that includes a MurderMystery element, and there are only a handful of Elvis songs, which are all done diegetically as part of the Chatauqua performances (or rehearsals).
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The story climaxes with Walter singing a song called "Clean Up Your Own Back Yard", chastising the people of Radford Center for their self-righteousness, with the "drugstore cowboy" verse specifically being a TheVillainSucksSong about the late Harrison Wilby.
-->Come closing time most every night\\
He locks up tight and out go the lights\\
And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife\\
With his employee
-->Come closing time most every night\\
He locks up tight and out go the lights\\
And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife\\
With his employee
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* NeverTrustATitle: ''The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)'' implies this is yet another wacky musical with Music/ElvisPresley singing countless songs while romancing a bunch of beauties, when it's actually a PeriodPiece drama that includes a MurderMystery element.
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* NeverTrustATitle: ''The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)'' implies this is yet another wacky musical with Music/ElvisPresley singing countless songs while romancing a bunch of beauties, when it's actually a PeriodPiece drama that includes a MurderMystery element.element, and there are only a handful of Elvis songs, which are all done diegetically as part of the Chatauqua performances (or rehearsals).
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* TheCameo: Creator/VincentPrice and Creator/JohnCarradine as two of the Chatauqua lecturers.
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* TheCameo: Among the Chatauqua headliners are Creator/VincentPrice and Creator/JohnCarradine as two of the Chatauqua lecturers.lecturers and UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball legend Duke Snider as a [[CastTheExpert baseball star]].
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* AssholeVictim: Wilby is a thoroughly repugnant SmugSnake and womanizer. While everyone is up in arms over a murder happening in their town, not many tears are shed for Wilby in particular.
* AuthorAppeal: Colonel Tom Parker had actually worked in a Chatauqua company in his youth, which no doubt played a big part in Elvis agreeing to do this film.
* AuthorAppeal: Colonel Tom Parker had actually worked in a Chatauqua company in his youth, which no doubt played a big part in Elvis agreeing to do this film.
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* AssholeVictim: Wilby is a thoroughly repugnant SmugSnake and womanizer.lecherous SmugSnake, whose relationship with his employee Nita borders on QuestionableConsent. While everyone is up in arms over a murder happening in their town, not many tears are shed for Wilby in particular.
* AuthorAppeal: Colonel Tom Parker had actually worked in a Chatauqua company in his youth,which no doubt and that almost certainly played a big part in Elvis his agreeing to do this film.a deal for Elvis to star in the movie.
* AuthorAppeal: Colonel Tom Parker had actually worked in a Chatauqua company in his youth,
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In 1927, Walter Hale (Presley) becomes the new manager of a traveling Chautauqua company. As the company sets up shop in the sleepy town of Radford Center in Iowa, Walter is faced with the problem of his dissatisfied Story Lady, Charlene (Marlyn Mason), wanting to rally her colleagues into forming a union. Charlene is impressed with the talent of a local girl, Carol (Anissa Jones), whose mother, Nita (Sheree North), despairs of leaving Radford Center for greener pastures. Nita works for drugstore owner Harrison Wilby (Dabney Coleman), whom she also sleeps with. Wilby then turns up dead and one of the Chautauqua members is accused of murder, creating another problem for Walter.
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In 1927, Walter Hale (Presley) becomes the new manager of a traveling Chautauqua company. As the company sets up shop in the sleepy town of Radford Center in Iowa, Walter is faced with the problem of his dissatisfied Story Lady, Charlene (Marlyn Mason), wanting to rally her colleagues into forming a union. Charlene is impressed with the talent of a local girl, Carol (Anissa Jones), whose mother, Nita (Sheree North), despairs of leaving Radford Center for greener pastures. Nita works for drugstore owner Harrison Wilby (Dabney Coleman), (Creator/DabneyColeman), whom she also sleeps with. Wilby then turns up dead and one of the Chautauqua members is accused of murder, creating another problem for Walter.
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* TheCameo: Creator/VincentPrice and Creator/JohnCarradine as two of the Chatauqua lecturers.
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* NeverTrustATitle: ''The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get In It)'' implies this is yet another wacky musical with Music/ElvisPresley singing countless songs while romancing a bunch of beauties, when it's actually a PeriodPiece drama that includes a MurderMystery element.
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* NeverTrustATitle: ''The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get In Into It)'' implies this is yet another wacky musical with Music/ElvisPresley singing countless songs while romancing a bunch of beauties, when it's actually a PeriodPiece drama that includes a MurderMystery element.
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* AnachronismStew: Most of the music seems in line with the 1927 setting, but the centerpiece song "Clean Up Your Own Back Yard" is very much a 1969 {{Blues}}[=/=]{{Rock}}[=/=]CountryMusic piece. Also, it contains the phrase "armchair quarterback", which didn't originate until the rise of UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball on television in TheFifties (though the similar "Monday morning quarterback" was around in TheThirties).
* AssholeVictim: Wilby is a thoroughly repugnant SmugSnake and womanizer. While everyone is up in arms over a murder happening in their town, not many tears are shed for Wilby in particular.
* AuthorAppeal: Colonel Tom Parker had actually worked in a Chatauqua company in his youth, which no doubt played a big part in Elvis agreeing to do this film.
* ContinuityNod: The medley of college songs Walter takes part in includes "Violet (Flower of NYU)", which is sung to the tune of "Aura Lee", which famously is also the melody source of the earlier Elvis hit "Love Me Tender".
* AssholeVictim: Wilby is a thoroughly repugnant SmugSnake and womanizer. While everyone is up in arms over a murder happening in their town, not many tears are shed for Wilby in particular.
* AuthorAppeal: Colonel Tom Parker had actually worked in a Chatauqua company in his youth, which no doubt played a big part in Elvis agreeing to do this film.
* ContinuityNod: The medley of college songs Walter takes part in includes "Violet (Flower of NYU)", which is sung to the tune of "Aura Lee", which famously is also the melody source of the earlier Elvis hit "Love Me Tender".
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Music/ElvisPresley's 30th feature film, ''The Trouble with Girls'' is a 1969 comedy musical directed by Peter Tewksbury.
In 1927, Walter Hale (Presley) becomes the new manager of a traveling Chautauqua company. As the company sets up shop in the sleepy town of Radford Center in Iowa, Walter is faced with the problem of his dissatisfied Story Lady, Charlene (Marlyn Mason), wanting to rally her colleagues into forming a union. Charlene is impressed with the talent of a local girl, Carol (Anissa Jones), whose mother, Nita (Sheree North), despairs of leaving Radford Center for greener pastures. Nita works for drugstore owner Harrison Wilby (Dabney Coleman), whom she also sleeps with. Wilby then turns up dead and one of the Chautauqua members is accused of murder, creating another problem for Walter.
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* FireworksOfLove: Played for laughs when Carol and Willy leave a box of fireworks near a tent where Walter and Charlene try to hash things out. Walter accidentally chucks a cigarette into the box and when he tries to seduce Charlene (to which she responds violently), the fireworks go off. Outside, his coworkers think they are getting down and dirty and when they see the fireworks, wonder what exactly he is doing to her.
* MisterSandmanSequence: The film opens with a narrator who references various things (such as the possibility of UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge running for president again) to signify that the story takes place in 1927.
* MonochromeToColor: The film opens in black-and-white and changes to color when Walter makes his entrance.
* SmallTownBoredom: Nita is depressed with living in a town as sleepy as Radford Center and gets her hopes up very high when Charlene tells her Carol has a talent for showbiz, fantasizing about moving to New York and Paris and such.
In 1927, Walter Hale (Presley) becomes the new manager of a traveling Chautauqua company. As the company sets up shop in the sleepy town of Radford Center in Iowa, Walter is faced with the problem of his dissatisfied Story Lady, Charlene (Marlyn Mason), wanting to rally her colleagues into forming a union. Charlene is impressed with the talent of a local girl, Carol (Anissa Jones), whose mother, Nita (Sheree North), despairs of leaving Radford Center for greener pastures. Nita works for drugstore owner Harrison Wilby (Dabney Coleman), whom she also sleeps with. Wilby then turns up dead and one of the Chautauqua members is accused of murder, creating another problem for Walter.
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!!Tropes:
* FireworksOfLove: Played for laughs when Carol and Willy leave a box of fireworks near a tent where Walter and Charlene try to hash things out. Walter accidentally chucks a cigarette into the box and when he tries to seduce Charlene (to which she responds violently), the fireworks go off. Outside, his coworkers think they are getting down and dirty and when they see the fireworks, wonder what exactly he is doing to her.
* MisterSandmanSequence: The film opens with a narrator who references various things (such as the possibility of UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge running for president again) to signify that the story takes place in 1927.
* MonochromeToColor: The film opens in black-and-white and changes to color when Walter makes his entrance.
* SmallTownBoredom: Nita is depressed with living in a town as sleepy as Radford Center and gets her hopes up very high when Charlene tells her Carol has a talent for showbiz, fantasizing about moving to New York and Paris and such.
