Months afterwards, when Bernard was casting for the film, he remembered the perky lady and referred to as on her to ask the fateful dilemma, "Do you want to be an actress?" After a script studying in London and some conferences with MGM executives, Day did a display screen take a look at in Hollywood, which contented the producers more than enough to solid her reverse Elvis. Producer Judd Bernard was browsing in an antique retail outlet on London’s famed Portobello Road when he caught a glimpse of the pink-haired teen. Elvis and Quentin Dean in Stay Away, Joe. Former foremost woman Joan Blondell seems as tavern proprietor Glenda Callahan, whose daughter, performed by Quentin Dean, can not look to keep away from the woman-chasing Joe. Her purpose as Elvis’ stepmother in Stay Away, Joe represented her very first big look in a comedy. MGM despatched down a memo just prior to the capturing of the next Presley film, Stay Away, Joe, warning the group about their behavior. He astonished her close to the end of capturing with a white Mustang as a remembrance of her 1st movie working experience. This time, however, in its place of getting a pertinent commentary on prejudice -- as was the outstanding Flaming Star -- the film stereotypes American Indians as shiftless and irresponsible.
