Jesse Pearson, who plays the Elvis-like rock star in this 1963 movie musical, didn’t get much traction out of this film, but others did. Dick Van Dyke and Janet Leigh already were stars, thanks to TV’s The Dick Van Dyke Show and the movie Psycho respectively, and Ed Sullivan, playing himself, had been a TV mainstay since 1948. But Ann-Margret, who played a Birdie-brained teen and danced with wild enthusiasm in the opening credits, stole the movie before it even got started. Bye Bye B