The Trouble with Girls (1969) on Netflix
A traveling Chautauqua troupe arrives in a small Iowa town in 1927. Manager Walter Hale tries to hold the company together while Charlene, the Story Lady, recruits performers into a union.
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Plot summary
A traveling Chautauqua company that mixes education with entertainment brings its speakers, musicians and actors to a small Iowa town and pitches its tents there in 1927. Internal squabbles divide the performers. Walter Hale, the new manager, contends with the town's prejudice and politics, with nepotism, and with union troubles, while Charlene, the company's Story Lady, recruits the troupe to form a union. The town has a scandal after the murder of Wilby, the local pharmacist.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Trouble with Girls (1969)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Colonel Tom Parker wanted actress Jean Hale for the female lead, but director Peter Tewksbury insisted on Marlyn Mason; Hale's husband, Dabney Coleman, was cast in the film anyway.
- Elvis Presley had Vincent Price and John Carradine cast because they were his two favorite horror-movie stars and he wanted to appear in a film with them.
- Elvis Presley was paid $850,000 plus 50% of the profits for The Trouble with Girls, which shot from October 28 to December 18, 1968.
- The Trouble with Girls is the only film Elvis Presley starred in that has no fight scene featuring him.
- MGM was ready to make Chautauqua with Glenn Ford in 1960, and Hollywood rumored Presley would co-star with Ford, Hope Lange and Arthur O'Connell, but the film was shelved.
- Anissa Jones, best known for playing Buffy on the television program Family Affair, made her only film appearance in The Trouble with Girls.
- Nicole Jaffe and Frank Welker went from the film to the regular voice cast of Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, which debuted on CBS ten days after The Trouble with Girls was released.
- A football scene was written into The Trouble with Girls because Elvis Presley, a big football fan, longed to play a quarterback in a football movie.
