Joan Blackman, who starred as Elvis Presley’s love interest in his singer’s classic movies Blue Hawaii and Kid Galahad, has died.

Blackman’s son, Ngai Tarkington, told The Hollywood Reporter that his mother died in a hospital in Santa Rose, Calif., on March 16. She was 87.

Blackman first played Maile Duval opposite Presley’s Chad Gates in the rock ‘n’ roll musical comedy Blue Hawaii in 1961. The next year, Blackman reunited with Presley on the music drama Kid Galahad, in which Presley starred as boxer Walter Gulick.

Before her films with Presley, Blackman starred opposite Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine in the 1959 drama Career; and opposite Jerry Lewis in the 1960 comedy Visit to a Small Planet. Blackman’s work in television included the ABC daytime drama Peyton Place, where she appeared in 16 episodes as Marian Fowler in soap’s second season from 1965 to 1966.

Joan Blackman Starred In Nearly Three Dozen Screen Roles

Born May 17, 1938, in San Francisco, Joan Blackman made her screen debut in the Candian Broadcasting Corporation series Playbill, where she made three guest appearances over two seasons in 1954 and 1955. In 1957, she appeared in a pair of guest turns in the series The Last of Mohicans, produced by the U.K.’s Incorporated Television Company.

Prior to her work in Career, Blackman in 1959 starred in the Western Good Day For a Hanging, opposites Fred MacMurray, Robert Vaughn and Margaret Hayes.

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