Million Dollar Quartet Mystery Woman

Memphis, Tn - The woman in a famous Million Dollar quartet photograph has been the topic of debate and speculation for half a century. Why was she in the studio with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis?

Elvis may have left building, but his girlfriend from that day is alive and well. Marilyn Evans Knowles-Riehl lives in Carmel, California.

In the summer 1956, then 19-year-old Marilyn Evans worked as dancer at a Vegas night club. During a coffee break, a vacationing Presley joined her friends at their table.

"He sat down with us. We're talking to him. He slipped me this napkin and it said "may I have a date with you." That's how it happened…he invited me to come and visit him in Memphis."

She flew to Memphis, stayed at his home and insists nothing improper happened.

"It was not intimate, just a guy and a gal dating which you did back in those days."

One day during a motorcycle ride, Elvis suggested they stop by Sun Studios. She suspects Elvis had no idea Lewis, Cash and Perkins were there.

"The four got along fine. They seemed to be friends, they were just together and just kind of jamming, I'd guess you'd call it."

Sam Phillips, the legendary Sun Studio producer called a newspaper photographer to take the publicity photo.

Over the years, Riehl would be edited out.

"That doesn't bother me, they were the stars. I certainly wasn't."

Riehl returned to Memphis on a trip in 2008, went to sun studio to take a picture in the same room, where history was made. No one knew because she was never tempted to write a book or sell her story.

"It was an exciting experience, but it wasn't truly the high point of my life."

I asked Ms. Riehl what happened to her and Elvis. She told me that was a nice man, but they didn't have much in common.