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Pam was billed as Pamela
Kirk when she made her film debut as Selena (Sandy) Emerson, one of the
high school students in Blue Hawaii. On tour with their teacher,
Miss Prentiss (Nancy Walters),
they get the royal treatment, with Elvis as their guide. By the time of
her next film the following year, The Chapman Report, she was
being billed as Pamela Austin. in 1963, she appeared with Joby Baker,
Peter Breck and a cast of country-and-western and folk music stars in
the musical Hootenanny Hoot, which, by all accounts, is only
worth seeing for the musical scenes, but i need to check it out myself,
of course. it was produced by Sam Katzman, "king of the quickies", who
knew how to crank out a movie fast and on a cheap budget. Colonel
Parker, of course, saw this as the perfect match for an Elvis movie. Sam
would produce Kissin' Cousins, and later Harum Scarum.
in Kissin' Cousins,
Pam would again play a girl named Selena. This time, she's Selena Tatum,
sister of Azalea(Yvonne Craig).
Although Elvis can't make up his mind at first (decisions, decisions!),
he settles eventually on Azalea, so he then has to pawn Selena off on
Sgt. Bailey (Tommy Farrell). Poor guy!! |
