Elvis stopped threatening—not only girls, but the whole of the social order—and began pleading.
Arguable. His 1961 Hawaii benefit concert was certainly threstening. Moreover, "King Creole," the 1958 film, was certainly threatening to the social order. The film rather successfully challenges the post-war edict to "stay in school." Kids around the globe reacted with vandalism in the theaters, some ripping out the seats in excitement.
