Reply With Quotenot much May really. Bits of info here and there have tried to put a slant onto Elvis' relationship with him............can't see it myself
What do people know about Nick Adams?
I found this below on the internet just now, but reason I ask is that I have just read a book on Doris Day, and the writer states that Nick Adams was the last person to have a relationship with James Dean bfore his death, and that Col Parker had to pay a lot of money to the gossip columnists to stop a story going out about Elvis and Nick's relationship. Basically implying he had a sexual relationship with Elvis.
I am assuming this is just more unsubstantiated gossip, although I am aware that Nickl and Elvis were friends. Just wondered what others knew and thought.
Nick Adams' widely publicized friendship with Elvis Presley began in 1956 on the set of Presley's film Love Me Tender during the second day of shooting.[12] Presley had admired James Dean and when the singer arrived in Hollywood he was encouraged by studio executives to be seen with some of the "hip" new young actors there. Meanwhile his manager Colonel Tom Parker was worried Elvis' new Hollywood acquaintances might influence Presley and even tell him what they were paying their managers and agents (usually a fraction of what Parker was getting). Elaine Dundy called Parker a "master manipulator" who used Nick Adams and others in the entourage (including Parker's own brother-in-law Bitsy Mott) to counter possible subversion against him and control Elvis' movements. She later wrote a scathing characterization of Adams:
...brash struggling young actor whose main scheme to further his career was to hitch his wagon to a star, the first being James Dean, about whose friendship he was noisily boastful... this made it easy for Parker to suggest that Nick be invited to join Elvis' growing entourage of paid companions, and for Nick to accept... following Adams' hiring, there appeared a newspaper item stating that Nick and Parker were writing a book on Elvis together.[13]
Dundy also wrote, "Of all Elvis' new friends, Nick Adams, by background and temperament the most insecure, was also his closest."[14] Adams was Dennis Hopper's roommate during this period and the three reportedly socialized together, with Presley "...hanging out more and more with Nick and his friends" and glad his manager "liked Nick."[15][16][17] Decades later, Kathleen Tracy recalled Adams often met Presley backstage or at Graceland, where Elvis often asked Adams "to stay over on nights": "He and Elvis would go motorcycle riding late at night and stay up until all hours talking about the pain of celebrity" and enjoying prescription drugs.[18]
Almost forty years later, writer Peter Guaralnick wrote that Presley found it "good running around with Nick ... – there was always something happening, and the hotel suite was like a private clubhouse where you needed to know the secret password to get in and he got to change the password every day."[19] Presley's girlfriend June Juanico complained the singer was always talking about his friend Adams and James Dean.[20] As with Dean, Adams capitalized on his association with Presley, publishing an account of their friendship in May 1957.[21] In August 1958 after Elvis' mother Gladys died, Parker wrote in a letter, "Nicky Admas [sic] came out to be with Elvis last Week wich [sic] was so very kind of him to be there with his friend."[22
not much May really. Bits of info here and there have tried to put a slant onto Elvis' relationship with him............can't see it myself
"NO-ONE, BUT NO-ONE,IS HIS EQUAL, OR EVER WILL BE. HE WAS, AND IS SUPREME".Mick Jagger
As I thought. ((roll eyes))
I hadn't even heard of him. Only reason I now know of him was that he was in the film Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson.
The other part in the book said that when he died of an overdose in Feb 1968 Elvis had a nervous breakdown!??? Surely that was around the time of preparations for the filimg of the 68 Comeback Special, which I think was filmed in June of that year. If anything was going to get Elvis in a tizz it was surely more like he was finishing with his 60's films and getting ready for the live performances again ??! Although not saying he wasn't upset. If a friend died of an overdose someone who wasn't upset would be more odd IMO!!
I don't know a lot about him except what I read in Peter Guralnick books.
I think he was a insicure person and this is waay he used to join others popularity (James Dean and Elvis) but I don't know about the sexual realationship wih JD.
I also know he was found dead and they start to talk about suicide, accidental death and even murder.
Originally Posted by May
You've just told me something there........didn't realise that was him with Doris and Rock..........!!!!!!
I also cannot see Elvis having a breakdown..........you know, come on eh????
Like you said, he's got the Singer Special coming up, a new baby............nah!!!!!!
It wasn't the other main co-star, that was Tony Randall. It was the one near the beginning. Doris Day played an interior designer doesn't she, and she goes to a party of one of her clients. As she leaves this woman's house, the womans son turns up and offers to drive Doris home - via a club. He gets drunk and "Rex Stetson" aka Rock Hudson rescues Doris from him - him being Nick Adams.
I remember thinking he was quite a short guy. I think Doris Day was around 5'7" and Nick Adams was slightly shorter than her. At least he looked it when they were dancing. Great film though. Love Rock/Doris films.
love em myself..........they had such great chemistry together.............
If you love Rock Hudson and you haven't seen it yet, try getting a hold of Come September with Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin. It's a very cute funny movie I think you'd enjoy.
Diane
thanks Diane.........never heard of that one
First off I have never totally believed their was a relationship between Dean and Adams. I have 7 bios on Dean and I have read Nick Adams bio-and the books give conflicting info on the relationship (what a surprise)
I also know that one author and one author alone has tried to make this idea of Elvis and Nick somehow having a relationship beyond friends for the purpose of selling his book and agenda.
Adams was married had 2 kids and his career was just not going anywhere in the late 60s-he had to go to Japan for a few movies, he never could accept the idea that he was not really the "leading man type" he was separated from his wife and his life was in shambles-it was bad.
No one who knew Elvis believes the inuendo of this story.
If anything Elvis may have been a little phobic about gay men.
Adams and Elvis had met very seldom since the late 50s and even though I'm sure it was a shock that Adams died, he did not have a breakdown over it. Have never read that anywhere.
Work in Progress!
I think that Nick probably exaggerated his relationship with James Dean too - Adams had a bit role in Rebel - but was mostly known for a TV western - The Rebel.
He has 61 credits on IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011244/
so he was a pretty active actor.
Elvis probably had a breakdown owing to a lot of circumstances - just getting married, Nick dying, career issues
Elvis didn't handle death well, and Adams killed himself.
Elvis, Natalie and Nick
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/pho...20-357-400.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...atalienick.jpg
Elvis & Nick on a bike
http://www.scottymoore.net/images/ph.../560929-02.jpg
Elvis, Dewey and Nick
http://www.elvis-postcards.com/image...eyDavidson.jpg
I think Nick liked to see his name in print,that's why he hung around people like Elvis,James Dean and Natalie Wood.
The One and Only King of Rock'n'Roll.
Yeah! It is a great movie.
I don't really know much about James Dean. Only seen his biography on television and so only have that to go by with him. They said some quite unsavoury things about his death so I won't repeat them hereFirst off I have never totally believed their was a relationship between Dean and Adams. I have 7 bios on Dean and I have read Nick Adams bio-and the books give conflicting info on the relationship (what a surprise
I'm sure it was a shock that Adams died, he did not have a breakdown over it. Have never read that anywhere.
The "Elvis breakdown" regarding Nick Adams was written in the Doris Day book, " A Reluctant Star". Haven't read it anywhere else.
I love this movie tooRock Hudson is one of my favourites and Gina Lollobrigida...well she's Italian
I love this dancing scene...so funny
I would point out that I can find no books which say Elvis had a breakdown in the late 60s nor at any other point in his career-so I'm very reasonably sure he did not have one.
Nick Adams problem according to his biography I read was that he thought he should be a leading man, the star, getting offered major important roles in major pictures and it never happened.
He starred in "Die Monster Die" along with Boris Karloff, and in Japan he starred in "Frankenstein Conquers the World" he was unhappy with his place in Hollywood.
IMO he was a tv star more than a film star-and he had not had a tv series since "The Rebel"
the reason he hitched his star to Dean, Elvis, and even Natalie Wood was because he wanted to be thought of in the terms of "their stardom, their recognition" to further himself.
Work in Progress!
Yep, as I say, the supposed breakdown was written in the book 'Doris Day: A Reluctant Star'. I haven't read it elsewhere either.
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