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Danny Bonaduce is remembering Elvis Presley’s admiration for faucets.
While speaking to John Cato on That’s Classic! in a Sept. 24 podcast episode, the Partridge Family star reflected on the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s risqué dressing room decor.
Bonaduce, 66, and Presley, who died in 1977 at 42, were working together on the 1969 movie The Trouble with Girls, which Bonaduce said was “pretty damn cool.”
One day during production, the young actor and his mother met the “Burnin’ Love” singer in his dressing room, where Presley had a surprising reaction to the design of the faucet handles.
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“He was so excited about the handles to the faucets. And every handle in his dressing room was either 14 karat gold or looked like it. But they were all shaped like women’s legs. Every one of them,” Bonaduce recalled of Presley’s dressing room.
“You know, the thing on the back of tractors, mud flaps, that girl, they look a lot like those. But the legs of those for everything you could turn off or twist was shaped like a lady’s leg. And he was so proud.”
Bonaduce also mentioned the generous gift Presley gave the children working on the comedy: a Cadillac push car. “Elvis bought, I don’t know, a dozen of these little push cars and gave them out to the kids in the movie,” he added.
When asked if he had it, Bonaduce said, “No, but I wish I did.”
Presley starred as Walter Hale, the manager of a traveling entertainment troupe, while Bonaduce had an uncredited role as a one-man band at 12 years old for the 1969 comedy. It would be one of Elvis’ final film roles.
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At the time working on The Trouble with Girls, the former child star admitted that he “didn’t fully grasp” that he was in an “Elvis movie.” “I don’t think it occurred to me that I’m in a movie with Elvis Presley.”
“It was just a day at work and then when I’d mention it, people would flip out that I did a movie with Elvis Presley,” Bonaduce concluded.
“So then I started talking about it, but it was just a job to me at the time and I got a cool push car Cadillac out of it.”
