11th September 1956, Tuesday

[Graeme]

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[Alan]

      
NICK ADAMS: Nat and I went to see a private showing of my biggest part to date, The Last Wagon, at the Academy Theatre on Melrose Avenue. When my name came on the screen in large letters I started to cry because to me it was something I had worked eight hard years to achieve. Natalie leaned over and kissed me on the cheek because she knew how I felt. Then I felt someone touch me on the shoulder and, when I looked over and saw Elvis, he said, “I know how you feel, Nick.” That was one of the greatest nights of my life, to know that I had two such wonderful friends who really understood me. The next day the papers said that Nat and Elvis were necking in the show. Laugh? I thought I'd die. After the picture was over, Nat and Elvis told me that I was really on the way and it made me feel just great. They're like that. Theyre not always thinking about themselves.
      
Variety
By Army Archerd
September 14, 1956
      
Hollywood’s hottest threesome, Elvis Presley, Natalie Wood and Nick Adams, may be teamed in a pic — at least so Presley plans it for the future. They all attended the preview of The Last Wagon in which Adams has the best role of his career. And Presley and Wood were smooching when Adams wasn’t on screen. P.S. She should know better than to smoke in the theater, too.
      
Hollywood
By Harrison Carroll
The Evening Independent
September 18, 1956
      
It’s all over between Natalie Wood and actor Scott Marlowe, and the new man in her life is rock ’n’ roll Elvis Presley. She not only attended his CBS-TV appearance, but she dated him at the Friendly Persuasion preview at the Academy Theater. Though still so young, Natalie is learning to be as cryptic as a veteran Hollywood glamor queen about the break-up of her romance. Asked what happened with Marlowe, she shrugged and said, “Too many complications.” At Warner’s, where she was having lunch, Natalie was wearing pedal pushers with both her and Presley’s initials pencilled on one leg of the trousers. “Who wrote that?” she was asked. “He did, of course,” she replied.
      

Elvis wearing one of the shirts gifted to him by Natalie

8:38pm

      
This is not too far off what the theatre would have looked like in 1956. This is a photo from 1951.
      

      
This is what 4667 Melrose Avenue looks like these days. Kind of lost the glamour, romance and character of a time never to be seen again.
      

[Private Presley]

The guy seated behind Nick Adams looks like Troy Donahue, but most likely not him because he started acting in 1957.