Series

Elvis and The Beauty Queen

Creator

Gus Trikonis

Year

1981

He was "The King." She was Miss Tennessee. Her love inspired him... but couldn't protect him from the drugs that would destroy him!

Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.