“My mom and dad took me to see ‘Blue Hawaii’ when I was just a little girl and I fell in love with him right then and there,” Butterworth said. “I couldn’t get enough Elvis.”
Butterworth recalls filming her first scene on the cliffs of Makapuu, on Oahu, running into Presley’s arms.
“I had only met him a few minutes before that,” she recalled. “So when the director called ‘action,’ I ran up and got in his arms, and his face was about 4 inches from my face. After all the anticipation of meeting Elvis Presley and working with him, I just froze. I couldn’t believe I was so close to this beautiful man. All the crew cracked up because they knew I was so enamored. In fact, Elvis laughed the hardest — he just loved to laugh.”
By Nick Thomas, For The Oklahoman
