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CAN’T GET ENOUGH lvis

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om Hanks and Austin Butler star in the Baz Luhrmann–directed biopic Elvis (in theaters June 24), about Elvis Presley’s rise to fame and complicate­d relationsh­ip with his manipulati­ve manager (Hanks). Inspired by Butler (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), who plays the titular role, we looked at other actors who have donned those blue suede shoes. —Megan O’Neill Melle

KURT RUSSELL Lucky Russell got to borrow Presley’s 1

dazzling White Comet jumpsuit (named the Adonis suit) for the 1979 ABC television movie Elvis. Years later, an uncredited Russell voiced Presley’s short scene in Forrest Gump (1994), when a young Forrest learns those pelvis-shaking dance moves.

JACK WHITE In 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox 2

Story, a spoof on music biopics, White Stripes musician White plays Presley (alongside other celeb cameos, including Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Justin Long and Jason Schwartzma­n as the Beatles).

MICHAEL SHANNON Based on an untold true story 3

(and one of the most requested photograph­s in the National Archives), 2016’s Elvis & Nixon stars Shannon as Presley, who meets with Kevin Spacey’s President Nixon at the White House.

DAVID KEITH In 1988’s Heartbreak Hotel, a teenage

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boy and his rock ’n’ roll band plot to kidnap Elvis, played by Keith, to cheer up the teen’s ailing mom.

DON JOHNSON The 1981 TV movie Elvis and the Beauty 5

Queen, about the rocker’s love affair with a pageant contestant `uring the final years of his life, features Johnson as Presley.

TYLER HILTON A young Elvis, played by Hilton, 6

records in front of Johnny Cash at the famous Sun Studio in the 2005 film Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoo­n.

THARVEY KEITEL In the

7 quirky road trip drama Finding Graceland (1998), Keitel plays a wisdom-yielding hitchhiker claiming to be Elvis on a journey to Memphis.

VAL KILMER In Quentin

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Tarantino’s True Romance (1993), Kilmer makes an appearance as an apparition of the jailhouse rocker. BRUCE CAMPBELL Now a 9 resident in a nursing home, Elvis (Campbell) joins forces with a Black “John F. Kennedy” (Ossie Davis) to combat an ancient evil in the 2002 come`y-horror flick Bubba Ho-Tep.

Go to Parade.com/elvis for movie streaming info.

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