ELVIS AND LUCY

SYNOPSIS : The touching and tragic love story based on the book, “Are you Lonesome tonight?” chronicles the 24 year relationship between Elvis Presley and Lucy De Barbin and her secret love child, Desiree Presley.

On a cool night in Memphis, high on a grassy hilltop, Elvis Presley fell in love with a beautiful French teenager with sparkling green eyes, a melting smile and a haunted existence. When they met in 1953, Lucy de Barbin was a troubled 16 year old with 2 children who had been foisted onto a brutal husband at the age of 11 by her old world immigrant family. Elvis Presley was an 18 year old dreamer filled with an intense desire that would fuel an unparalleled rise to fame, fortune, and, eventually, to a legendary status too heavy to bear. Their love was born of necessity, grew in secrecy, and was fraught with impossibilities.

She gave birth to his first child, but her desire to shield Elvis from scandal forced her to conceal their baby. And to conceal the father from the child. The single legacy that Lucy allowed their daughter was her name, Desiree. This was the endearment Elvis bestowed upon Lucy, the name he chose as the most romantic way to express his love. Many of the songs he recorded including Are you Lonesome Tonight, Return to Sender, I’ll Remember You, My Baby Left Me, She is Not You, he recorded with Lucy on his mind and in his heart.

Though Lucy ran from Elvis to protect him, he always found her. They met secretly in parks, by the banks of rivers and ponds, and in hotel rooms across the country. They talked, laughed, cried and made love.

When the roles were reversed and Elvis was emotionally crumbling, Lucy was there. Her love comforted him in the fog of his final years and provided an intermittent oasis that might have given Elvis the only peace he ever knew.

Elvis and Lucy is a tragic and touching love story and will be the most compelling motion picture about the “King” ever made.