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Acting 101: What is the name of the horse that was in Elvis' film Love Me Tender?


  Elvis Presley                                                                        (Photo/wiki)

Elvis Presley was born in East Tupelo, Mississippi.

Presley, the King of Rock, loved animals, and had many at Graceland in Memphis, TN. 

Not unlike Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, they both also had chimps.

Elvis' first horse was named Rising Sun.  And that horse was in his film Love Me Tender.

Another horse, was Domino.  That  horse was given to Priscilla by Elvis.

Priscilla continues to enjoy horses as Elvis did.  She has even adopted horses to live in the stables at Graceland. 

She has also helped horses that were to be destroyed.  Two of them were adopted by Priscilla and are currently living at Graceland's stables.  Max and Merlin are their names, and they are brothers.



Elvis' home he grew up in (Photo/wiki)

Elvis gave Priscilla two pet great danes in the 60s named Snoopy & Brutus. The Presley family was surrounded by pets - horses, dogs, cats, a chimp...

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Comments

  • giny 2 years ago

    I ove Elvis for his great loves for children and animals

  • veghead 2 years ago

    Wild animals are not pets, and having a chimp for a pet is simply wrong, I don't care if you're Elvis, Michael Jackson or just the average uninformed American. It's terribly cruel for the chimp, who is a wild animal and will inevitably be dumped when it becomes a dangerous adult. An adult chimp is about ten times as strong as an adult human male.

  • Emily 2 years ago

    The diference with the suicidical wacko jacko if that Elvis Presley really loved animals but many bad persons that beated his career and personal life wanted a crazy love for animals in front of the public like "scratter" but Elvis Presley really love animals I many pictures with animals but I have an adorable pitures of the adorable Elvis Presley with a cute little donkey.

  • Emily 2 years ago

    Veghead is the perfect morbid curiosity for EPE about Elvis Presley and the animals. A history: When Elvis Presley received an wallaby of the fans of Australia he sent the cute quickly the wallaby to the zoo of Memphis with the acceptance of the memphis maphia because was difficult to raise to a wild animal calmed. And to control to blows to a human Being that wanted to be free and that a lot of money produced them. the owner of "scratter" was memphis maphia and the pet of "scrattter" was Elvis Presley. wacko jacko was a suicidical mad person. If Elvis Presley was now free of slavery he would and active in peta and a quote from Elvis Presley: "“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
    — Elvis Presley

  • Emily 2 years ago

    "“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
    "
    — Elvis Presley

  • jenny 2 years ago

    “Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
    — Elvis Presley

    Veghead is the perfect morbid curiosity for EPE about Elvis Presley and the animals. A history: When Elvis Presley received an wallaby of the fans of Australia he sent very quickly the cute wallaby to the zoo of Memphis with the acceptance of the memphis maphia because was difficult to raise to a wild wallaby calmed. And to control to blows to a human Being that wanted to be free and that a lot of money produced them. the owner of "scratter" was memphis maphia and the pet of "scrattter" was Elvis Presley. wacko jacko was a suicidical mad person. If Elvis Presley was now free of slavery he would and active in peta and greenpeace.

  • jenny 2 years ago

    And the owner of the zoo of Graceland, graceland and the Elvis Presley fortune was memphis memphis. Elvis Presley was the pet of memphis maphia and the animals too :´(

  • jenny 2 years ago

    Elvis Presley forever I love you :*

  • marie 2 years ago

    i love the Elvis Presley quote:

    “Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
    — Elvis Presley

  • valeria 2 years ago

    ti adoro Elvis,
    sei entrato nella mia vita quasi trentanni fa, quando ero ancora un bambina, l'età di tua figlia Lisa,e ci resterai fino alla fine dei miei giorni su questa terra, per poi rincontrarti in paradiso.
    I LOVE YOU FOREVER

  • anna 2 years ago

    Nice to know horses are still at Graceland. I wonder if any other pets are? Does someone live there? I would think there would be a caretaker.

  • Kristen Wilkerson - Lansing Interfaith Examiner 2 years ago

    Great idea for an article!

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