Elvis and Robert F. Blumofe

[MikeFromHolland]

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Robert F. Blumofe was a Hollywood executive who produced films including “Yours, Mine and Ours,” “Pieces of Dreams” and Academy Award best-picture nominee “Bound for Glory.”

A native New Yorker, Blumofe graduated from Columbia University and also earned his law degree there. He joined Paramount Pictures’ legal staff in New York City following graduation and later transferred to the Hollywood studio.

He switched to the production side of filmmaking in 1952, when he helped organize television film production at Revue Productions (now Universal Television). He joined United Artists the next year and for 13 years was UA’s vice president in charge of production and West Coast operations.

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Sources
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-06-me-passings6.1-story.html
https://twitter.com/robertblumofe?lang=fr

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[javierTCB]

Thanks for sharing. New to my eyes.

Looks like after motorcycle accident of "Roustabout"

That´s sequence was filmed on march 11, 1964 - wednesday (SOURCE: "Elvis, Day by Day", Guralnick/Jorgensen, 1999, page196)

[drjohncarpenter]

Robert F. Blumofe was a Hollywood executive who produced films including “Yours, Mine and Ours,” “Pieces of Dreams” and Academy Award best-picture nominee “Bound for Glory.”

A native New Yorker, Blumofe graduated from Columbia University and also earned his law degree there. He joined Paramount Pictures’ legal staff in New York City following graduation and later transferred to the Hollywood studio.

He switched to the production side of filmmaking in 1952, when he helped organize television film production at Revue Productions (now Universal Television). He joined United Artists the next year and for 13 years was UA’s vice president in charge of production and West Coast operations.


https://www.elvis-collectors.com/forum/download/file.php?id=162087


Sources
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-06-me-passings6.1-story.html
https://twitter.com/robertblumofe?lang=fr

Cool shot, another unseen PR photo.

Looks like this was posted on Twitter by his son, which explains why it's a photograph of a framed photo.

You can see Robert's reflection in the glass, likely coming from a wall of photos showing his pop with celebrities. Nice he shared it on Elvis' birthday a few weeks back.

Robert Blumofe
@RobertBlumofe

On Elvis’s birthday, here’s a photo of my dad with Elvis. I don’t know the context, but I assume it’s when my dad was head of production at United Artists and Elvis’s film deal. #ElvisPresley





9:21 AM · Jan 8, 2023
https://twitter.com/RobertBlumofe/status/1612137384706965506

What was the context of this visit, which javierTCB smartly dated to March 1964?

We can only guess.

We know in 1961 Elvis made two films for the Mirisch Company, distributed by United Artists. In 1965 and 1967 there would be two more for United Artists.

One interesting possibility, although remote, was perhaps the executive was wondering if Presley had any interest in a new movie in the planning stages. Again, such a chat is not likely, given management's firm hold on Elvis' Hollywood path.

But . . . the movie looked pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

'Dice Of God' Due This Fall

A top-budgeted, outdoor adventure drama, tentatively titled "Dice of God", and featuring an all-star cast, will be produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for United Artists release, it was announced by Robert F. Blumofe, U. A. vice-president in charge of West Coast operations. Slated to go before the Panavision color cameras this fall, "Dice of God" will be directed by Arnold Laven from a screenplay by Sam Peckinpah whose last film, "Ride the High Country", won many international awards. Jules Levy and Arthur Gardner will produce.

Paterson Morning Call - Wednesday, March 18, 1964
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/554403129/

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[tinseltown]

Thanks for sharing. New to my eyes.

Looks like after motorcycle accident of "Roustabout"

Wasn't the real accident that elvis was hit and got a cut eye during the fighting scene in the beginning outside the teahouse with the the 3 college boys?

And the filmed motorcycle accident was later incorporated into the story to explain the band aid over his eye?

[javierTCB]

Thanks for sharing. New to my eyes.

Looks like after motorcycle accident of "Roustabout"

Wasn't the real accident that elvis was hit and got a cut eye during the fighting scene in the beginning outside the teahouse with the the 3 college boys?

And the filmed motorcycle accident was later incorporated into the story to explain the band aid over his eye?

That says on page 195 of "Elvis, Day by Day". But the photo of the accident shows something different.

[tinseltown]

I remember the interview with the director and he talked about the fight scene on which Elvis insisted to do it himself.

But maybe the director misremembered.
Anyhow, it was a stunt driver, clearly visible, who performed the motorcycle accident, not Elvis himself.

[javierTCB]

I remember the interview with the director and he talked about the fight scene on which Elvis insisted to do it himself.

But maybe the director misremembered.
Anyhow, it was a stunt driver, clearly visible, who performed the motorcycle accident, not Elvis himself.

Good point.

In any case, we could say that the wound he has was made in March 1964.