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They never met but Elvis did meet people who knew Dean to ask them about him. Two of them were Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper.

Elvis had seen RWAC and he was obsessed with the movie. He also had a high opinion of JD. He met Nick Ray in MGM and got down on his knees and began vehemently to recite the dialogues from the film mostly JD’s lines. After JD’s death he wanted to play Dean’s role in „The James Dean Story”. They never met because JD died before Elvis really took off in 1956. Elvis didn’t get the part in the documentary but got the lead role in King Creole (1958) which was written originally for JD... 😢

Never before or since... that's James Dean. 

Ok thanks for that. Oh what I wouldn't give for a pic of these 2 together. Photoshop here i come...

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J. Robards sings:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xS7s6YkV KEI

Yes, Elvis did seek out people who knew his idol to find out everything he could. This was a time when that was the only way to gind out about Dean. After Dennis Hopper talked with Elvis about Dean, Elvis surprised Hopper by telling him he did not think he would have liked Dean personally. Ironic, to say the least, especially considering Elvis continued to idolize Dean for the rest of his life.

King Creole was by far the best film Elvis ever made. It had a first class cast and director. It is a shame Elvis's selfish crooked manager kept putting him in fluf films that just exploited his fame as a singer. King Creole was freely adapted from the novel A Stone For Danny Fisher set in the depression era about an impoverished Jewish boy who becomes a boxer to lift himself out of poverty. Had Dean lived to play the role, it would have been closer to the original character. However, the adaptation was still basically the same plot and worked very well for Elvis.

just wanted to add another name, besides Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper, Elvis also became very close with Dean's friend Nick Adams, whose career was in a steep decline in the early 60s. Adams ended up becoming part of the circle of people around Elvis, and eventually his unpredictable behavior and alcoholism led to his being exiled from the King's inner circle, but for a while Adams was basically living on Elvis' ranch.

Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'