What Happened to Barbara Hearn

[Tommy]

Hello TCB Friends,

Does anybody have information as to what happened to Barbara Hearn, Elvis' love in the 50's? I know that she was from Memphis, a model and was writing advertising copy for a jewelry firm. She had known Elvis since 1953.

Thanks in return,(y)

Tommy:D

[graceland123]

all i knoww is she does not talk about elvis

[Tommy]

Thank you(y)

[0349054]

Speaking of women in Elvis's life:

01. Carol Ballard - In Tupelo, Elvis was nine
02. Eloise Bedford - Childhood girlfriend
03. Magdelen Morgan - In Tupelo
04. Betty McMann - 1950-51
05. Billie Wardlaw - Lauderdale Courts girlfriend 06. Regis Wilson
Vaughan - Prom date - 1953
07. Tammy Young - High School
08. Dixie Locke - Elvis' Memphis sweetheart
09. Patty Philpot - Memphis, mid 1950's
10. Anita Carter - Singer with the Carter Sisters
11. Barbara Pittman - recorded at Sun Records
12. Sharon Wiley - mid 1950's
13. Carolyn Bradshaw - Hayride Folk singer
14. June Juanico - serious early girlfriend.
15. Wanda Jackson - Decca recording artist
16. Marilyn Evans - Las Vegas showgirl
17. Judy Spreckles - spring 1957
18. Andrea June Stevens - Won a date
19. Joan Blackman - Blue Hawaii / Kid Galahad 20. Diana Dors - British
sex kitten
21. Natalie Wood - Actress
22. Kate Wheeler - 1956
23. Joan Brasher - former miss Nevada
24. Kitty Dolan - Tropicana singer
25. Sandy Preston - Dated Elvis In Vegas
26. Jayne Mansfield - actress - fall 1956
27. Yvonne Lime - actress - 1956-57
28. Anita Wood - Serious Memphis girlfriend
29. Rita Moreno - actress - 1957
30. Venetia Stevenson - dated In 1957-58
31. Mamie Van Doren - 1957
32. Tempest Storm - stripper - 1957
33. Dottie Harmony - Las Vegas showgirl
34. Anne Neyland - Dated - Jailhouse Rock
35. Sherry Jackson - Actress
36. June Wilbank - 1958
37. Lillian Portnoy - She kissed Elvis
38. Barbara Hearn - Memphis
39. Dolores Hart - Loving You / King Creole
40. Jeanne Carmen - Actress - 1958
41. Carol Connors - Singer
42. Bobbie Gentry - Singer
43. Heli Priemel - Dated In Germany
44. Siegrid Schutz - Germany In 1959
45. Vera Tschechowa - Dated In Munich
46. Margrit Buergin - Secretary In Germany
47. Anjelika Zehetbauer - Nightclub dancer
48. Jane Clarke - Lido Club dancer
49. Nancy Parker - Lido Club dancer
50. Sue Anderson - Germany
51. Patti Parry - Memphis Mafia member
52. Kathy Gabriel - Miss Ohio - 1958
53. Hannah Melcher - Miss Austria
54. Carolyn Frazer - girlfriend - march 1960
55. Juliet Prowse - GI Blues co-star
56. Bonnie Bunkley - Dated In spring 1960
57. Nancy Sharp - Flaming Star assistant
58. Sandy Ferra - Dated In 1960
59. Connie Stevens - Actress - 1961
60. Hope Hathaway - Chorus girl, 1961
61. Yvonne Craig - Kissin Cousin co-star
62. Cheryl Holfridge - Starlet
63. Sharon Hugueny - Dated In 1963
64. Shelley Fabares - co-starred In 3 films
65. Vicky Meyerlink - Dated during Clamake
66. Jackie Deshannon - singer songwriter
67. Barbara Bonner - Dated In the 1960's
68. Ann Margret - Viva Las Vegas co-star
69. Deborah Walley - Spinout co-star
70. Cybill Shepherd - Actress
71. Joyce Bova - met In 1969
72. Barbara Leigh - 1970
73. Vicki Peters - Dated In 1971
74. Carol Connor - songwriter
75. Sandra Zancan - Las Vegas showgirl
76. Linda Thompson - long time girlfriend
77. Ann Pennington - 1974
78. Diane Goodman - Miss Georgia, 1972
79. Mindi Miller - model - 1975-76
80. Jo Cathy Brownlee - Footbal team hostess
81. Mallessa Blackwood - dated
82. Ann Helm - Follow That Dream co-star
83. Nancy Sinatra - Speedway co-star
84. Tina Louise - Actress
85. Sheila Ryan - Dated Elvis In 1974
86. Piper Laurie - Actress
87. Tuesday Weld - Co-star romance
88. KathyWestmoreland - Toured with Elvis
89. Aicia Kerwin - 1977 - Bank teller
90. Lisa Watts, Memphis bank teller, May-August 1977
91. Ginger Alden - Elvis' last girlfriend.
92. Priscilla Presley - first met while In Germany, and later Elvis'
wife.

As for Barbara Hearn she worked as a staff aid to Sen. Estes Kefauver. She can be seen in "Elvis '56," the 1979 photo journal by Al Wertheimer. She also made the gold lame vest Elvis wore on his Jan'57 Ed Sullivan appearance.

The photo below was taken in Tupelo in 1956. You can see Gladys and Barbra.

[amzietamzie]

Wow... thank you so much 0349054! :notworthy

He sure was busy... wish I was one of the lucky ladies... oops, I'm not only in the wrong continent but wasn't even alive then :lol: :blush:

Tommy I wish I could add more information but unfortunately I don't know any more...

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e359/amzietamzie/kissingbarbarahearn.jpg

[Tommy]

0349054,

Thank you for all the girlfriend's list!!:cool:

That man sure did know how to live it up!:lol:

Tommy:D

[Tommy]

Amzie ,

Thank you for your reply,(y)

Tommy:D

[0349054]

No problem Tommy - although its by no means a complete list!

[Unchained Melody]

0349054,
Thanks for the list (y)

[NEA]

Vicky Meyerlink...dated during 'Clambake'....:hmm:

Wasn't there a Victoria Meyerlink who played 'Ellie Esterlake' in "Speedway" - 'Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby' fame? :blush:

[franny]

Thanks, for that long list 0349054...:)

franny

[ForeverTheKing]

A very long list 0349054 !

Elvis really LOVED women!!!:lol: :blush:

I don't know anything about Barbara Hearn now...it's a pity she doesn't want to talk about him (as June Juanico did)...she spent a lot of time with Elvis so I'm sure she could share a lot of memories.

Thanks for all your posts...let's hope to have more informations about her!

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[Wendy56]

Thanks 0349054 for that long list. :clap: Do you know where can I find pics of all of those girls? I'm a bit curious... And like to find a pattern in all of them. Maybe Elvis found a particular "something" in each woman. Well, I hope you know what I mean... :P
And why Barbara does not talk about Elvis? :hmm: I'm curious about that too.

Thanks one more time. :flowers:

[Tommy]

Thank you everyone for all your information and comments.(y) I think Barbara didn't want to talk about Elvis because she just wants to keep her memories private.

[franny]

No problem Tommy - although its by no means a complete list!

0349054 can you tell us who is missing on this list? I'm curious...

franny

[0349054]

How long do you have!?! They are the ones I know Elvis saw. As for onight stands - not saying some of those listed were not, but, Elvis had a lot lot more.

[Elvis-fan]

Elvis and Barbara Hearn

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/elvis-fan/new%20one/Dancing3.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/elvis-fan/new%20one/Dancing2.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/elvis-fan/new%20one/Dancing.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/elvis-fan/elvis/Dancing_Elvisklein.gif Elvis-fan

[Tommy]

Thank you all for the photos!(y)

[P.S. Annie]

Great pictures, thanks:clap: Interesting list by the way.

[franny]

How long do you have!?! They are the ones I know Elvis saw. As for onight stands - not saying some of those listed were not, but, Elvis had a lot lot more.

I have all day! :lmfao:
I would be surprised there would be more than what's on that list...where would he find the time?

franny

[graceland123]

there s always time :D

[riley]

Barbare Hearn was a very pretty girl, would have been a beautiful Mrs Presley:)



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[franny]

Thanks, for posting the pics, Riley...:)

franny

[Sgt. Presley]

My great example :king:

[Sheila]

is she still alive? still living in Memphis?

[Tommy]

Does anyone know if Barbara is still going strong:hmm:

[TCE]

Elvis sure had a lot of girlfriends but I don't think it was always serious. Afterall there's a big difference between having a girlfriend or having a lover. Everybody has special friends, but it doesn't always mean that you sleep with them. I had to think of a remark Elvis ones made during an intervieuw (The one in the blue suite) He was asked how he felt that there was be said that he slept with so many women. Elvis laughed and said: If I had slept with everybody they are talkng about, I would be dead by now. I loved that remark.


Be safe and take care,

Christel (TCE)

[Elvisloverforever]

IT IS NOT TRUE, that Barbara Hearn doesn't talk about Elvis, she recently traveled to Denmark, with her husband, to a Elvis tribute show, and told us a lot about him, I got her autograph, she looked into my eyes, CAN U BELIEVE IT!! I LOOKED INTO THE SAME EYES ELVIS ONCE DID!!! i even talked to her!!!! :D amaaaaazing!! :)

But yeah, she said elvis was the best kisser, and that she never will forget him. But that back in the days it made her sad that she was not his nr. 1 girlfriend.

[Elvisloverforever]

she's still alive and going strong. :)

[hounddog]

as of the 5th Jan 2010 she was still alive here's an interview with her
http://www.knoxville.com/news/2010/jan/05/elvis-presley-girlfriend-barbara-hearn/http://au.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=barbara+hearn+elvis&sp=1&fr2=&SpellState=fr=yfp-t-501

http://au.images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fau.images.search.yahoo.com% 2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dbarbara%2Bhearn%2Belvis&w=449&h=270&imgurl=
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[Cliff]

Elvis sure had a lot of girlfriends but I don't think it was always serious. Afterall there's a big difference between having a girlfriend or having a lover. Everybody has special friends, but it doesn't always mean that you sleep with them. I had to think of a remark Elvis ones made during an intervieuw (The one in the blue suite) He was asked how he felt that there was be said that he slept with so many women.
Elvis laughed and said: If I had slept with everybody they are talkng about, I would be dead by now. I loved that remark.
Be safe and take care,

Christel (TCE)

Yeah, but what a way to go !!!!!!!

[mistymorning]

Yeah, but what a way to go !!!!!!!


:lol::lol::lol:(y)

Barbara Hearn Remembers Elvis


As one of many young ladies who dated Elvis Presley, Barbara Hearn says she accepted Elvis as something the world had never known, the first rock star. The "joke" in her family was that Barbara Hearn dated Elvis Presley "steadily for a year."

Hearn was going steady. She even wrote a column about dating in "16 Magazine" and told fans how she "taught him everything he knows" about kissing. But, as it turned out, Elvis, except for being single, was the Tiger Woods of the '50s, dating everyone from Hearn, his hometown sweetheart, to dancers to movie star Natalie Wood. Elvis Presley fans will have plenty to photograph this week when Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley will be among those on hand to celebrate the 75th birthday of the rock icon. There will be birthday cake to help celebrate. Happy Birthday Elvis!
Hearn, now living in Trenton, Tenn., with her husband, retired CIA officer Jim Smith, operates a bed and breakfast which welcomes Elvis fans curious about her once public romance just as Elvis became a singing sensation and movie heartthrob.
"He had already done 'Heartbreak Hotel,' 'Don't Be Cruel' and 'Love Me Tender,' " she says of Elvis' fame when they dated. He had made his debut on national TV and acted in his first film, the Civil War drama "Love Me Tender."
The relationship began after his breakup with Dixie Locke. "I met him through Dixie. Dixie and I worked together at Goldsmith's during Christmas vacation," says Hearn. When Elvis picked Locke up to take her home from the department store, he sometimes gave Hearn a ride too. Locke, who has talked to fans during previous birthday celebrations, said she broke off her relationship with Elvis when his career meant long separations and led to a lifestyle too worldly for her: "I had given my heart to the Lord. He (Elvis) was doing things our church didn't approve of. I couldn't go with him to clubs where they served alcohol."
Hearn said she felt a twinge of guilt at first when Elvis called her after the breakup with her friend. But she rarely saw Locke and agreed when Elvis asked for a date. The invitation came when Hearn had gone to work as an advertising copywriter for the old Perel & Lowenstein's department store. She was asked to model for a TV news segment about Fashion Week. Elvis saw her at the studio and said he was going on tour but would like to see her later.

"We got along and were great friends, but I don't think I ever had any illusions of permanency," says Hearn, who says she did not think of Elvis as a potential husband. "I had hoped not to marry anybody -- ever. I wanted to do something wonderful myself. I thought I might be a writer, a world-famous actress, a model, a political activist."
She was runner-up in a Miss Memphis pageant and had encountered at least one other Elvis girlfriend, Anita Wood, in a pageant. Hearn says Wood could sing, but Hearn, who bore a resemblance to actress Susan Hayward, was hampered in the talent competition. "I couldn't sing or dance or twirl a baton. I did (a dramatic reading) from George Bernard Shaw's burning of Joan of Arc at the stake."
Elvis' eventual status as a legend was unclear at the time. "I thought he would be popular and make a good living, but I never thought it would go as far as it has."
Hearn says she and Elvis were never intimate. "You didn't do that in my circle. There are a couple of pictures of us kissing, but that's about as far as it would go. Ladies had to behave like ladies."

Hearn remained close to Elvis' mother, Gladys, and grandmother, Minnie Mae, even when the relationship with Elvis began to cool. That was how she learned that Gladys Presley quickly took a dislike to Natalie Wood when she met her at the Presley home on Audubon Drive. "They were having some work done on the house, and Natalie was sashaying around in a negligee around all those workmen."
On Christmas, Elvis arrived with a woman Hearn remembers as "Dottie Harmony. She was a Las Vegas showgirl. I thought, 'You just don't bring a Las Vegas showgirl home for Christmas.' "
It could have been one of the times when Hearn says Elvis tried to calm her down by saying, "Little Barbara's got her nose out of joint."
When Hearn enrolled to study journalism, speech and drama at the old Memphis State College, Elvis bought her a new yellow Buick convertible. Hearn says yellow "was a good color for it." It was a lemon that she soon traded.
Before graduating, Hearn moved to Washington to work as secretary to Sen. Estes Kefauver. She planned to finish her degree in Washington, but put it off because of the expense. By then, she had met Jim Smith, a law student who would become a CIA officer assigned to the Middle East, Far East and Europe.
Smith says his wife's former boyfriend did not make him jealous. "I knew the girl I had, and I was quite right in my assessment. I've loved her for 48 years."
Barbara Hearn-Smith, former Elvis girlfriend, will speak as part of "Conversations on Elvis" at Memphis Marriott East, 2-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $20, including conversations with friends who knew the Presleys in Tupelo
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