SanteeFats
Another pretty enjoyable Elvis movie. Good music, good looking girls/women, decent humor, and of course the bad fight scenes. Elvis and his band are tasked by Big Frank to watch over his daughter, played by the very cute Shelley Fabares. Mary Ann Mobley starts out as Elvis's love interest but fades out as he stars to fall for the daughter. There is a scene where Mary Ann and Shelley are both in Elvis's room, one on the patio and the other in the room. It is funny to watch him trying to keep one from seeing the other. There is the Italian gigolo who sets is sights for Shelley and it takes all four of the band members to keep him away and out of the picture. After a riot at a club a whole bunch of kids are arrested and ailed. One turns out to be Shelley. When Elvis finds out he gets a group of guys to tunnel into the jail so he can reach her. He gets in to the women's jail cell only to find that Big Frank has shown up and freed her. The girls are released but before they leave the cell they huddle around Elvis and dress him as a woman so he can leave with them. After talking to her dad Shelley finds out that while Elvis was paid to watch her he was not paid to take her out, kiss her or otherwise get involved with her. So she realizes she loves Elvis as he does her and they apparently will live happily ever after.
babeth_jr
This fun 1965 movie starring Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares should be put in a time capsule for a movie representing the carefree mid-1960's in America. Kids were still fairly innocent, the Vietnam War hadn't jaded the country and the drugs that pervaded the late 1960's weren't as prevalent the time this movie was made.Elvis plays Rusty Wells, a musician hired by a mobster Big Frank (Harold Stone) to guard his daughter Valerie (the lovely Miss Fabares) who has gone with some girlfriends to Ft. Lauderdale on Spring break. Valerie doesn't know her overprotective father has hired Rusty and his group of rag tag musicians to watch her, and of course, she and Elvis fall in love.The movie is similar in some ways to "Where the Boys Are", but is not as serious. Of course, with it being an Elvis picture, we have to have the Pelvis sing in several cheesy but fun song and dance numbers. The songs "Girl Happy" and "Do the Clam" are classic cornball songs, but fun to watch. This movie was one of my favorites from my childhood and it is amazing to me how I can still remember the lyrics to these songs after all these years! Elvis never was a great actor, and over the years his movie roles kept getting sillier and sillier, but this movie, silly as parts of it are, is still a lot of fun to watch. And boy was Elvis hot when he was young!
Tonci Pivac
To me GIRL HAPPY was one of the best Elvis films ever, great acting, great music, great fun to watch. This is a film that no Elvis fan should miss. Go to your local video shop and rent this film if you haven't already seen it, its good stuff. 9/10
kwbucsfan
This was a decent movie, but it was not in the caliber of some of his earlier movies. Like Kissin' Cousins the soundtrack was great. But unlike Kissin' Cousins the plot made sense. Shelly Fabres did a great job as Elvis's interest. The title suggests that it gould be Girls! Girls! Girls! II, but that's not the case, while this movie is not in the same caliber, it is a good movie in its own right. I used to live in West Palm Beach area, so Ft Lauderdale is just a stone throw away for me. Definately a watchable movie.
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