Hound Dog (song) - in Popular Culture

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  • The AGM-28 Hound Dog missile's name is inspired by Presley's version of the song.
  • The song appears in the 2005 Elvis Presley biopic Elvis, where it shows him performing the song on The Milton Berle Show.
  • In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, Forrest remembers a time when a young man stays at his home and brings a guitar with him. Forrest dances to his playing of this song. It is shown in the next scene that this man was indeed Elvis Presley. This scene also suggests that Forrest's peculiar dancing (due to the braces he wears on his legs) inspired Elvis's famous dance. Forrest's mother responds negatively after seeing it performed on The Milton Berle Show on a television set in a shop window, a possible reference to the complaints after Presley performed the song in real life.
  • The 2007 film Hounddog takes its name from the song. It is the favorite song of the film's lead character: the Elvis Presley-obsessed 12 year old girl, Lewellen (portrayed by Dakota Fanning).
  • "Hound Dog" was sung by Eddie Clendening, portraying Elvis Presley, in the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet, which opened in New York in April 2010. Eddie Clendening also covered the song in the Million Dollar Quartet original Broadway cast recording.
  • The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe.

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