oldfilmsflicker: YAM: You also played his mother in a film.Millie Perkins: Years later when P
oldfilmsflicker: YAM: You also played his mother in a film.Millie Perkins: Years later when Priscilla Presley was producing that miniseries called Elvis: The Early Years, I went in and read for it and Jerry Schilling, who was one of Elvis’s people, hired me to play his mother (Gladys Presley). Michael St. Gerard played Elvis and we shot it in Memphis. I met a lot of his relatives and I met two women, one was called Willie and the other Billie and they were two of Gladys’s best friends. Especially Willie. They would call me up and want to take me to lunch. They told me stories about Gladys that no one else had ever heard. She was wonderful. She was not this overbearing, alcoholic mother. Maybe in the later years she drank a bit, but she was a good mother. [click link to read more] YAM Magazine » Archive » Epidemic Film Festival 2012: Interviews -- source link