June 22nd in Elvis History

It’s June twenty-second, and on this day in 1964… principal photography began on Elvis Presley’s film *Girl Happy*. The production drew high-profile visitors to the set, including actor George Hamilton and Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The visit added a touch of political and Hollywood prestige to the lighthearted beach movie, which would go on to become one of Elvis’s most commercially successful films of the 1960s.