Elvis Presley & Linda Thompson

Linda Diane Thompson (born May 23, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actress and songwriter. www. ... www. ... Elvis redirects here. ... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The River City, The Bluff City Official website: http://www. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...

Linda Thompson won several beauty pageants, including the 1972 Miss Tennessee USA title. In July of that year she began a relationship with the recently separated Elvis Presley and immediately moved in with him at Graceland for roughly three and a half years. A few months after Elvis' late 1976 breakup with Linda, she signed on as a regular on the TV series Hee Haw where she was in the cornfields until 1982. A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. ... The Miss Tennessee USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Tennessee in the Miss USA pageant. ... Elvis redirects here. ... Graceland. ... Hee Haw was a long-running U.S. television variety show hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. ...

In 1981, Thompson married former Olympic Games Gold Medalist, Bruce Jenner with whom she had two children. Bruce divorced Linda in 1983 and she appeared in a few motion pictures and made a number of guest appearances on different television series. In 1991 she married composer David Foster. With her new husband's help, she began writing lyrics for some of his compositions, notably the song "No Explanation" for the 1990 film, Pretty Woman. In 1992 they were nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award for Best Song for their composition of the song "I Have Nothing" sung by Whitney Houston in the 1992 motion picture, The Bodyguard. For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... David Foster, OC, OBC , LL.D. born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a multi Grammy Award winning musician, producer, and composer. ... Pretty Woman is an American romantic comedy motion picture that was one of the top films at the box office in 1990. ... Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music... The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. ... I Have Nothing was the third single released from Whitney Houstons first feature film soundtrack, The Bodyguard. ... Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American R&B, pop singer, songwriter, actress, film producer, and former model. ... For other uses, see The Bodyguard (disambiguation). ...

Foster helped Thompson write the lyrics to "The Power of the Dream", the official song of the 1996 Summer Olympics composed by Foster and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. In 2003, Thompson and her husband won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for "The Concert for World Children's Day." The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Kenneth Babyface Edmonds (born April 10, 1958 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an R&B and pop singer, songwriter, keyboardist, record producer, film producer, and entreprenuer. ... An Emmy Award. ...

She was active with her husband in humanitarian causes in the "David Foster Foundation Society." In 2005, the Fosters aired a reality television show based on Linda's slacker sons and how Foster had to deal with them. The show was cancelled after a few airings, with Foster separating from Thompson. Humanitarianism is the view that all people should be treated with the respect and dignity they deserve as human beings, and that advancing the well-being of humanity is a noble goal. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people over professional actors. ...

External link

• Linda Thompson at The Internet Movie Database

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Trivia

Linda Thompson was portrayed by actress Stephanie Zimbalist in the 1981 television movie, Elvis and the Beauty Queen. Stephanie Zimbalist (born October 8, 1956, New York City, New York) is an American actress. ...