Change Of Habit (1970)
In an uncommon dramatic role, Elvis plays Dr. John Carpenter, an inner-city doctor working at a free clinic. Mary Tyler Moor plays a nurse and a nun sent by the Catholic Action Committee with two others dressed as nurses to help him. How can they make a difference in this hostile world?
Could he change her life, could she forget her vows and follow her heart...
Dr. John Carpenter: You got to learn to start loving people. I'm gonna hold you till you get rid of all your hate. Get as mad as you can. Then you can start to give love and take love. Try to get away from me, baby. Try and get away.
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Director William A. Graham said in an interview years after the making of this film that Elvis Presley was the nicest man he had ever met.
This was Elvis Presley's final dramatic film before his death on August 16, 1977 at the age of 42.
When Elvis is playing the piano and Mary Tyler Moore the guitar, the tune they're playing together is "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", a song that Elvis first recorded in 1956. It is the only recorded performance of this song that features Elvis on the piano.
The first film in the West to mention autism.
In a 1995 interview on the Terry Gross radio show, "Fresh Air", Mary Tyler Moore stated she was Elvis' last leading lady. She added that Elvis was quoted as saying there was only one leading lady he did not sleep with. Moore implied to Terry Gross that she was that one leading lady.
Revealing mistakes
The story supposedly takes place in New York City but it was filmed at Universal Studios in California. When the nuns are standing outside their apartment building in what is supposed to be New York City there is a car parked close to them that obviously has California plates on it, revealing the fact that the movie was actually filmed in California.