United Kingdom, Jan. 28 -- Golden Age Hollywood actress Jan Shepard, who acted alongside Elvis, has died at the age of 96.

The screen star passed away on January 17 after battling pneumonia and respiratory failure.

Born Josephine Angela Sorbello in 1928, Jan trained at the Pasadena Playhouse and ended up becoming a secretary at an I. Magnin department to afford the $25 rent on her Hollywood Boulevard apartment, which she shared with future co-star Amanda Blake.

Jan starred alongside the late King of Rock and Roll - who died of a heart attack in 1977, at the age of 42 - in 1958's 'King Creole' and 1966's 'Paradise, Hawaiian Style'.

She previously told Elvis Australia of her first encounter with the 'Suspicious Minds' hitmaker: "I went ...