ABILENE, Kan. - "GI Blues" is the first in a series of films complementing the Elvis at 21 exhibit. The movie will be shown in the Visitors Center Auditorium at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24. The film is free, open to the public and includes free soda and popcorn.

After Elvis Presley got out of the army in 1960, he was instantly ushered into this Paramount movie about an Oklahoma singer who gets out of the army and wants to open a club. Making a potentially lucrative bet that he can seduce a cabaret singer (Juliet Prowse), Elvis instead falls in love.

The Elvis film series also includes the showing of "Love Me Tender" on Thursday, May 10 at 7 p.m. The series wraps up with a "Late Night at the Museum with Elvis" on June 26 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. including a showing of "Elvis 56: In the Beginning," a reception, and Museum tours.  

The Smithsonian traveling exhibit Elvis at 21, Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer is on display through July 1, 2012. This exhibit was developed collaboratively by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Govinda Gallery, and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, and is made possible through the generous support of HISTORY™.

Programs and exhibits at the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home are  made possible through private donations to the Eisenhower Foundation. A special thank you to local sponsors including Duckwall-ALCO Stores, Inc., Astra Bank, First Bank Kansas, Pinnacle Bank, Solomon State Bank and UMB Bank. To make a donation to the Eisenhower Foundation, please visit the online donation page at www.dwightdeisenhower.com.