Clambake

Clambake is a 1967 musical film starring Elvis Presley.

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1967 - Musical film - Elvis Presley

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In her 1985 book, Elvis and Me, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley wrote that by the time filming was to begin on Clambake, Presley's growing distress with the quality of his films led to a despondency accompanied by overeating that saw his normal 170 pound (77 kg) weight balloon to 200 lb (91 kg). The movie studio executive ordered him to lose the weight in a hurry, marking the introduction of diet pills to his already excessive regimen of placidyls and Dexedrine that would eventually kill him.

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Elvis and Me - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley - Movie studio - Diet pill - Placidyl - Dexedrine

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