Worst Films of Grammy Stars

Some of today’s biggest pop stars have flatlined at the movies, including Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey and Britney Spears. Rock legends haven’t been immune to ill-fated crossovers, either, as bombs starring Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash will attest. Here are some of the weird and not-so-wonderful fizzles that remind musicians not to quit their day jobs. -- By Chris Willman, Yahoo! Music

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Elvis Presley in “Harum Scarum”
There aren’t that many peaks in Elvis’s early ‘60s burst of movie-making, but this 1965 stinker is generally regarded as one of his silliest. How bad was it? Even Colonel Parker, Presley’s any-movie-for-a-buck manager, thought it was terrible. Elvis plays a movie star who is kidnapped on a promotional visit to the Middle East by Arabians who think his on-screen derring-do is real and want him to carry out an ... more
Elvis Presley in “Harum Scarum”
There aren’t that many peaks in Elvis’s early ‘60s burst of movie-making, but this 1965 stinker is generally regarded as one of his silliest. How bad was it? Even Colonel Parker, Presley’s any-movie-for-a-buck manager, thought it was terrible. Elvis plays a movie star who is kidnapped on a promotional visit to the Middle East by Arabians who think his on-screen derring-do is real and want him to carry out an assassination. The level of tension in all the derring-do that proceeds is, well, not high, especially since the star seems to believe there is no moment of danger that can’t be paused for a song. As the website 3B noted, “The film's abysmal soundtrack was recorded before filming even began, and when I calculated it out, there's a song approximately every 7.2 minutes -- all of them as forgettable as the film itself.” less