In honor of the shared birthday (January 8th) of two of rock music's most icon-y icons of all time and space, David Bowie and Elvis Presley, today I bring you a little something special. It just so happens that both Bowie and Presley spent significant time in their entertainment careers as actors, and it just so happens that Bowie's very first appearance as a film actor and Presley's very last both took place in the year of 1969. It also just so happens that Bowie in the short "The Image" plays an mute and menacing zombie/schizophrenic hallucination, and Presley in "A Change of Habit" plays a ghetto physician who falls in love with a nun played by Mary Tyler Moore, and all that just so happens to be awesome! I don't know what more you'd ever want, really.
So please to enjoy the beginning and end, the black-and-white and the color, the rated "X" (yes, really, back then) and the rated "G," the evil and the divine, and the mod and the rocker!
"The Image," starring David Bowie, Michael Byrne, dir. Michael Armstrong (1969, UK)
"A Change of Habit," starring Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, dir. William A. Graham (1969, US)
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