MGM also financed three of Katzman's best known movies: two films starring Elvis Presley, Kissin' Cousins (1964) and Harum Scarum (1965), as well as Your Cheatin' Heart (1964), a biopic of Hank Williams starring George Hamilton. Hamilton later wrote in his memoirs that "Jungle Sam cracked the whip, whacked the cane and the whole film was in the can right on time. But he gave me free rein creatively and our director... brought in something memorable, and even Sam knew it." In December 1964 Katzman announced he would make five films that year for MGM in his third year at the studio. Katzman made the Herman's Hermits film Hold On! (1966) and singer Roy Orbison's only film, The Fastest Guitar Alive. In 1967 he signed a new contract with MGM to make at least two films a year. These were Hot Rods to Hell (1967), the last film for John Brahm, and Riot on Sunset Strip (1967). Katzman wound up selling the latter to AIP for release. His last films for MGM were A Time to Sing (1967) with Hank Williams, Jr. and The Young Runaways (1968). Return to Columbia In 1967 Columbia Pictures wanted two quick, topical films about love-ins and singles-only apartments. Sam Katzman got the call and recruited his 1940s cronies, Arthur Dreifuss and writer Hal Collins, to make The Love-Ins and For Singles Only (both 1967) Final Movies Katzman's final films were produced by his son Jerry. These included Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969) for AIP, How to Succeed with Sex (1970) and The Loners (1972) for Fanfare Productions. Personal life He was the uncle of television producer Leonard Katzman, and, in turn, the great-great-uncle of Ethan Klein of the Israeli-American YouTube comedy channel h3h3Productions. He was married to Hortense Katzman. They married on the set of the film The Diplomats in 1928. She sued for divorce in 1955, but the two reconciled. Sam Katzman died on August 4, 1973, in Hollywood. He is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Selected filmography As producer unless otherwise mentioned. Unmade films film version of Terry and the Pirates after buying film rights from Douglas Fairbanks Jnr (1951) sequel to the 1943 serial The Phantom (1955) – when Katzman discovered Columbia no longer had the screen rights to the character, he reshot parts of the finished film and retitled it The Adventures of