Anita Wood


Anita Marie Wood Brewer is a TV performer, recording artist and girlfriend to Elvis Presley. She later married NFL football player Johnny Brewer. Presley and Wood met in 1957 and in the same year Presley referred to Wood as his "No. 1 Girl". The two dated seriously for several years from 1957 to 1962. Wood signed a contract to work as an actress for Paramount Pictures, but later gave it up for Presley. In 1976, Johnny Brewer sued the Memphis Publishing Company for libel when it reported that Anita Brewer was divorced from Brewer and reunited with Presley in Las Vegas. Anita Wood appeared on the Larry King show in 2005 to talk about her romance with Elvis Presley.
Anita recorded for ABC-Paramount ; Sun ; and Santo. She also worked on the Andy Williams TV Show and is the uncredited vocalist with Williams on "The Hawaiian Wedding Song ", a Top 15 hit in early 1959.