April 15th in Elvis History

It's April 15th, and on this day in 1965, *Girl Happy*, Elvis Presley’s seventeenth film, opened at five hundred theaters and drive-ins nationwide, breaking box-office records in many locations. Over the Easter weekend, the film grossed \$178,500 in Detroit alone. In Los Angeles, it was shown simultaneously in fifty-eight theaters. Within the first ten days of release, *Variety* reported that the film earned \$3.65 million. Reviews were glowing, with *Hollywood Reporter* noting that the movie would do “the customary brisk Presley business,” and *Variety* calling it another “winner” for Elvis, the kind of “pleasant fare” his fans had come to expect.