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The future June Carter Cash was one of Elvis Presley’s early friends in the music industry. She was very welcoming to Elvis as he worked his way to success, even telling him to look her up whenever he was in Nashville. He took this invitation a bit too far when he arrived at her house and discovered nobody was home. Elvis and his friend broke into the home and wrecked some of her expensive belongings.

Elvis snuck into June Carter Cash’s house

In the mid-1950s, Elvis met a number of big names in country music, including the future June Carter Cash. At the time, she was married to Carl Smith and invited Elvis to stay with her and her husband whenever he was in Nashville.

“Well, we took her at her word,” Elvis’ friend and bodyguard, Red West, said in the book Elvis: What Happened? by Steve Dunleavy.

Carlene Carter, whose family legacy was explored at length in Ken Burns’ Country Music, turns 64 on Thursday. The granddaughter of Mother Maybelle Carter, and daughter of June Carter Cash and singer Carl Smith, Carter made her recording debut in 1974 with “Friendly Gates,” a track from stepfather Johnny Cash’s LP The Junkie and the Juicehead, Minus Me. The album, which also featured a solo cut by June Carter Cash, was a true family affair, shining early solo spotlights on Cash’s daughter Rosanne, and Carlene’s sister, Rosey. “Friendly Gates...

Last year, Lifetime announced that Jewel would star in a biopic of June Carter Cash. Now we have video evidence that Ring of Fire is real! In this clip, we see Carter join her first husband, Carl Smith, onstage at the Grand Ole Opry for a folksy comedy bit and a song. (Here's the real Carter and Smith doing a different but similar number.) The jury's still out on Jewel's acting abilities, but the singing and outfits seem festive enough.

His characters are uncool, preppy and full of the self-dramatising melancholy of youth, yet his films are hugely likeable. His latest, Damsels in Distress, continues his peculiar cinematic vision

Every great American film-maker struggles to create their own peculiar vision, just as the studio men struggle to stop them doing so. Yet few visions are quite so peculiar as Whit Stillman's, and few have seemed so marginal to the industry of which they are a part. It's hard to say how much impact his films have had; there have been, for reasons beyond his own control, too few of them. He has succeeded in getting four films made: a comic trilogy set in the 1980s, Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994) and The Last Days of Disco (1998), and now the about-to-be released "campus comedy" Damsels in Distress. On one level it may seem a rather meagre body of work. However, for some, myself included,...

Country singer Carl Smith has died at the age of 82, reports BBC News. The 'Hey Joe!' star, who was previously married to June Carter Cash, passed away at his home in Tennessee on Saturday. He rose to fame during the 1950s and achieved a string of chart singles, including 'Are You Teasing Me?' and 'Back Up Buddy'. The singer, who was a member of the Grand Ole Opry country radio programme, married Carter in 1952 and they had one child together, Carlene Carter. The pair divorced (more)...

Country music singer Carl Smith has died at the age of 82. Known as "Mister Country," he passed away on Saturday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee.

Former Grand Ole Opry announcer Keith Bilbrey told New York Times that Smith recently suffered a stroke and had been in failing health.

Smith had 41 chart singles during the '50s, including his hits "Let's Live a Little," "If Teardrops Were Pennies," and "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way," all of which established his name in country music.

He married fellow Grand Ole Opry member June Carter in 1952. They had one child together, singer Carlene Carter, before they divorced in 1956. He married "I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes" hitmaker Goldie Hill the following year.