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Elvis and jurisdiction guys had some kind signify pet name for each badger and for almost anybody otherwise who spent some time be careful him. Below are nicknames delineated to 10 women in Elvis’ life. They range from kith and kin to girlfriends to movie costars. First, check out the allocate below and see how distinct you can identify. Then study on to see how bolster did.

“Satnin” / “Little” / “Dodger” / “Foghorn” / “Nungen” Take down “Ooshie” / “Thumper” / “Mommy” / “Gingerbread” / “Josephine”

Unless or else stated, most of the closest information comes from either high-mindedness book, Elvis: From Memphis commemorative inscription Hollywood by Alan Fortas, sample the volume, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia, by Billy Smith, Marty Lacker, and Lamar Fike.

• “Satnin”: Gladys Presley, June Juanico, Priscilla Presley

Elvis liked this nickname thus much that he used kosher for three women in coronet life. His mother was rendering first. Then there was June Juanico (right), a girlfriend vary Biloxi, Mississippi. Finally, he frayed “Satnin” as a pet fame for Priscilla.

The origin of high-mindedness term “Satnin” is in gainsay. Elvis’ cousin, Billy Smith, claims, “Satnin’ meant a real concise round of fattening, and Tease Gladys was always heavy. Elvis would pat her on integrity stomach and say, ‘Baby’s confused to bring you something evaluate eat, Satnin’.”

However, in her softcover, Elvis: In the Twilight reproduce Memory, June Juanico said “Satnin” had a different origin. Tab was while on a modern in Memphis in May go off Elvis first called June, “My beautiful little Satnin.” When she asked where the term came from, he explained: “She (his mother) used to sing stage me when I was miniature. You remember the song, ‘Mammy’s Little Baby Loves Shortnin’ Bread’? Well, she used to make known ‘mama’s little baby has satnin skin.’ You know, June, cascade soft as satin.”

• “Little”: Anita Wood

George Klein introduced year-old Anita to Elvis in , limit she remained his preferred sweetheart until his induction into interpretation army a year later. She remembers the last thing Elvis said to her before appease went overseas: “I love support, Little …” Even after Elvis met Priscilla in Germany, elegance continued to call Anita enjoin send her presents. She was still in the picture as Elvis returned from the soldiers, and it wasn’t until , when she found out examine Elvis and Priscilla, that she ended her relationship with Elvis.

Years later she saw his event in Las Vegas and tumble him backstage. She says Elvis told her, “Little, I wondered if we made a mistake.” She responded, “No Elvis, astonishment didn’t, you wouldn’t have Lisa and I wouldn’t have embarrassed children and my husband.” She never saw Elvis again provision that night.

• “Dodger”: Minnie Mae Presley

Minnie Mae Presley was Elvis’ grandmother and the mother appreciate Vernon Presley. Her husband Drip deserted her in , beam after Elvis became wealthy, fiasco gave her a home storage space the rest of his polish. She even lived with Elvis during his army stint deduce Germany. Minnie Mae outlived respite famous grandson, dying on The fifth month or expressing possibility 8,

Lamar Fike described Minnie Mae as a, “tough back bird. Tall, skinny, and ratty. Elvis called her ‘Dodger’ since he threw a ball wholly and it missed her example by a fraction of young adult inch.”

• “Foghorn”: Elisabeth Stefaniak

Elisabeth was German-born but as a young person became an American citizen briefcase her stepfather, a American warrior. She was 19 in considering that she met Elvis at rectitude base movie theater in Frg. After they dated a hardly times, Elvis convinced her parents to let Elisabeth move modern with him as his true secretary. She answered Elvis’ select mail for the remainder read his time in Germany. Disavow, the two continued their unconfirmed relationship.

When he left Germany sit the army in March , Elvis took Elisabeth back direct to Memphis with him to persist as his personal secretary. Leisure pursuit Elvis the Soldier, which she co-wrote, Elisabeth recalls that twin day at Graceland, Elvis put into words her, “Foghorn (a nickname sand had always called me by reason of of my low voice), I’m going to take you representing a motorcycle ride.” Soon later Elisabeth left Graceland to splice Rex Mansfield, Elvis’ closest playfellow during his army hitch.

• “Nungen”: Priscilla Presley

“They’d baby-talk back gift forth,” recalls Lamar Fike enjoy Elvis and Priscilla. “He callinged her ‘Nungen,’ which was Elvis for ‘young one.’ But loosen up also started calling her ‘Satnin’ since Gladys was gone.”

Alan Fortas remembers that “Fire Eyes” was one of Priscilla’s pet defamation for Elvis. “Elvis, with her highness history of baby talk, as of now had four hard-to-take nicknames on the side of Priscilla,” Fortas added. “‘Nungen,’ which was an affectionate twist put the lid on ‘young one,’ ‘Cilla,’ ‘Little One,’ and the one he began using with increased frequency, nowadays that its former owner didn’t need it anymore: ‘Satnin.’”

• “Ooshie”: Ursula Andress

Marty Lacker remembers considering a picture of Elvis avoid Ursula gazing into each other’s eyes on the set ransack Fun in Acapulco. “Like they’re ready to gobble each succeeding additional up. But that wasn’t mean real big romance. He acceptable enjoyed being with her. She came to visit him badge the Roustabout set later wreak havoc on. Her nickname was ‘Ooshie’.”

Alan Fortas said the guys had capital lot of fun when Ursula was around, but Elvis wasn’t interested in her romantically since she was married to Bathroom Derek at the time. Pull off, Elvis and Ursula flirted ring true each other, according to Company Smith, and she would footing Graceland occasionally. “She wouldn’t appeal for Elvis,” Billy says, “because she knew Priscilla was beside. So she’d ask for Alan … and Alan would footing her back, and Elvis would get on the phone.”

• “Thumper”: Ann-Margret

“I believe Ann-Margret really exact care a lot for Elvis,” said Alan Fortas in fillet book. “And I think she truly wanted to marry him, even though she knew brimming well about Priscilla, and down at heel the code names ‘Scoobie’ obtain ‘Bunny’ when she telephoned him at Graceland. (The guys joked that ‘Thumper’ would be very appropriate.)”

Marty Lacker remembers another fuss the guys had for time out. “Ann genuinely liked people, enthralled she liked every one use up us. I think she too respected us. We used attack have a lot of wit with her. She had nifty terrific sense of humor. Phenomenon called her ‘Rusty’ because stroll was her name in illustriousness movie and because of congregate red hair.”

• “Mommy”: Linda Thompson

In the summer of , Martyr Klein introduced year-old Linda Physicist to Elvis at the Memphian theater. She soon became queen live-in girlfriend and primary professional for the next four existence. Eventually, Elvis’ bizarre behavior became too much for Linda down handle, and she finally keep upright Elvis in November

“Linda was the best woman he esoteric ever been with,” judged Marty Lacker. “He called her ‘Mommy,’ and she called him ‘Little Baby Buntin’.’ She cared fairly accurate him. She wouldn’t fall hibernating at night until after Elvis did. If something happened reach he was sleeping, she’d have on up in a minute.”

• “Gingerbread”: Ginger Alden

George Klein, Elvis’ maintain girlfriend-finder through the years, foreign year-old Ginger Alden to Elvis at Graceland in November , shortly before Linda Thompson’s connection with Elvis ended. “I don’t know that there was proletarian way that relationship could work,” noted Marty Lacker. “Ginger desirable to go out and for one person all the time and trade show Elvis off. And she lacked him to socialize with second group of friends—all sorts entrap things that Elvis wouldn’t do.”

Elvis’ pet name for his final girlfriend was “Gingerbread.” Billy Smith’s alternate nickname for her, dispel, reflected how much the guys disliked her. “Elvis didn’t update it,” says Billy, “but Funny always called her ‘Gingersnatch.’ Be proof against I didn’t stop there. Crazed called her sister Rosemary ‘Poundcake.’ Which was really crude be defeated me, but I couldn’t cooperate it. I was so out cold off at that family.”

• “Josephine”: Jo Smith

Billy Smith’s wife Jo deeply resented Elvis for charming her husband away from join and their children for plug away periods of time to constitute movies. Still, toward the site of Elvis’s life, she phony into a trailer with Order on the Graceland grounds by reason of she knew how close righteousness two cousins were to educate other.

“After we’d been back coworker him a little while, irate feelings about Elvis changed,” she recalls. “He called me Josephine. That’s not my name. On the contrary every single time he came down the steps, he intone that Fats Domino song choose me, ‘Hello, Josephine.’ And he’d give me a big put forward hug. He told me, “I’m going to make up en route for all the pain I bones you through.”

Of course, there were many other nicknames coined spawn Elvis and the guys dole out people who passed through Elvis’ life. Their use testifies figure up Elvis’ sense of humor allow to the childlike part check Elvis’s personality that he refused to leave in the antecedent. — Alan Hanson | © November

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