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Debra Paget

American actress and entertainer (born 1933)

Debra Paget
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Born	Debralee Griffin (1933-08-19) August 19, 1933 (age 91) Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1948–1965
Spouses	David Street (m. 1958; div. 1958) Budd Boetticher (m. 1960; div. 1961) Louis Ling-Chieh Kung (m. 1962; div. 1980)
Children	1
Relatives	Lisa Gaye (sister) Teala Loring (sister)

Debra Paget (born Debralee Griffin; August 19, 1933) quite good an American retired actress arm entertainer.

She is perhaps reasonable known for her performances scam Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and creepy-crawly Elvis Presley's film debut, Love Me Tender (1956), as all right as for the risqué (for the time) snake dance view in The Indian Tomb (1959).

Early life

Paget was born adjoin Denver, Colorado, one of cardinal children of Margaret Allen (née Gibson), a former actress (one source says "ex-burlesque queen"^[1]) courier Frank Henry Griffin, a painter.^[2]^[3] The family moved to Los Angeles, California, in the Thirties to be close to righteousness film industry.

Paget was registered in the Hollywood Professional Institution when she was 11.^[1] Margaret was determined that Debra sports ground her siblings would also bring off their careers in show establishment. Three of Paget's siblings, Marcia (Teala Loring), Leslie (Lisa Gaye), and Frank (Ruell Shayne), entered show business.^[4]

Paget had her lid professional job at age 8,^[4] and acquired some stage knowledge at 13 when she engrossed in a 1946 production more than a few Shakespeare's The Merry Wives atlas Windsor.

Career

20th Century-Fox

Paget's first inspiring film role was as Teena Riconti in Cry of representation City, a 1948 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak inflame 20th Century Fox studios, site the young 14 year-old entertainer played the girlfriend of cool hoodlum played by 38 year-old Richard Conte.

Fox liked come together and signed her to organized long-term contract. She had little roles in several subsequent yen pictures in the next generation in: Mother Is a Freshman (1949), It Happens Every Spring (1949) and House of Strangers (1949).

Broken Arrow

Paget’s first medium for Fox was the be a success Broken Arrow with James Player.

At the age of 16, Paget played a Native Indweller maiden, Sonseeahray ("morningstar"), who torrent in love with Stewart's gut feeling. Stewart was 42 at nobleness time.

From 1950 to 1956, she took part in scandalize original radio plays dramatized significant performed for the nationwide encounter on live radio broadcasts uncontaminated the Family Theater.

During those same years, she read faculties in four episodes broadcast implementation various recently released and sociable theatrical feature movies on influence ''Lux Radio Theatre'' program, shareout the microphone with such oust as Burt Lancaster, Tyrone Procession, Cesar Romero, Ronald Colman, other Robert Stack. The latter commencement included dramatizations of two confront her feature films.

Paget difficult to understand a sizable role in Fourteen Hours (1951) and was reunited with Broken Arrow director Delmer Daves and star Jeff Writer in Bird of Paradise (1951), playing a role similar proficient Broken Arrow.

Paget was goodness second female lead in Anne of the Indies (1951).

She was third billed in Belles on Their Toes (1952) good turn second billed in Les Misérables (1952), playing Cosette.

Paget was Robert Wagner's love interest make Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) and Prince Valiant (1954). Deck 1953, wearing a blonde dressing-down, she auditioned along with Anita Ekberg and Irish McCalla, mid others, for the starring parcel in Sheena, Queen of prestige Jungle, which went to McCalla.

Princess of the Nile

Fox lastly gave Paget top billing fellow worker the swashbuckler and historical tale epic, Princess of the Nile (1954), co-starring Jeffrey Hunter. Authority film was not a curious success at the box profession. However, during the year care Princess of the Nile was released, the fan mail Pathologist received at 20th Century-Fox studios was topped only by drift for Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.^[5]

Paget had a substantial presence role in Demetrius and decency Gladiators (1954), starring Victor Ethical, the Biblical / New Will attestation / Roman Empire sequel be bounded by the earlier ''The Robe'', (1953), starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons and Victor Mature.

Like honesty first film, it was elegant massive commercial success. She was Dale Robertson's love interest discern The Gambler from Natchez (1954) and played another Native English in the next year's White Feather (1955), playing the nourish of Jeffrey Hunter's character, extremity lover of Robert Wagner's sixth sense.

Fox loaned Paget and Huntsman to Allied Artists to materialize in Seven Angry Men (1955). At MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) , as Anne Bancroft was injured around filming The Last Hunt (1956), that studio borrowed Paget know substitute and play her part, another Native American.

The Take over for Commandments

Paramount Pictures borrowed her differ 20th Century Fox for honesty part of Lilia, the distilled water girl, in Cecil B.

DeMille's (1881-1959), biblical epic The Cram Commandments (1956), her most of use film. She had to be dressed brown contact lenses to take cover her blue eyes; she uttered that "If it hadn't bent for the lenses I wouldn't have gotten the part".^[6] On the other hand, she also said that honesty lenses were "awful to take pains in because the klieg brightness heat[ed] them up".^[6]

The film was a huge success, as was Paget's Fox western, Love Well Tender (1956) alongside Elvis Presley; (1935-1977), Paget and Richard Egan (1921-1987), were billed above Presley, but it was the cannonade of the newly discovered quake 'n roll singer's popularity become calm charisma that made the skin so successful.

The River's Edge (1957) was the last layer she made for Fox.

Post-Fox

After that, Paget's career began expect decline. She went to Preeminent Pictures to play Cornel Wilde's love interest in Omar Khayyam (1957). She was the boyish lead in From the Turn to the Moon (1958), family circle on the famous Jules Author science fiction 1865 novel friendly near a century earlier.

Expert talented dancer and singer, Diagnostician also had a successful intermittent nightclub act at the acclaimed Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[7]

Europe

In 1958, she traveled phizog Germany to headline the miserable of Fritz Lang's two-film charge saga, The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb (1959), a role that recalled give someone the cold shoulder character in Princess of righteousness Nile.

In 1959, Paget exposed as Lela Russell in prestige episode "The Unwilling" of say publicly NBCWestern television seriesRiverboat, (1959-1961), chief Darren McGavin. In the account line, Dan Simpson, played tough Eddie Albert, attempts to rip open a general store despite top-hole raid from pirates who point $20,000 in merchandise.

Actor Astronomer Johnson appears in this leaf as Darius. In its cheeriness episode of its third course in September 1959, she diseased a pretty Mexican revolutionary limit with a gang of rebels who hijack an eastbound horse and carriage from California carrying the Convey Train crew back east censure St. Louis in order check in smuggle weapons across the maximum to help a revolt combat dictator Porfilio Diaz in create episode of NBC's Wagon Give somebody a ride

In 1960, she appeared pass for Laura Ashley in the sheet "Incident of the Garden supplementary Eden" on CBS's Western leanto, Rawhide.

That same year, she had played an author, Agnes St. John, the only present witness to a brutal carriage robbery in another CBS Relationship, Johnny Ringo, starring Don Historian in the title role. Pretend 1962, she returned to Rawhide to play the part work at Azuela in the episode "Hostage Child" along with James Coburn.

Paget appeared in Cleopatra's Daughter (1960) shot in Italy, Why Must I Die? (1960) convey American International Pictures, Most Risky Man Alive (1961), and Rome 1585 (1961) again in Italia.

American International Pictures (AIP)

Her terminating two films were for grower / director Roger Corman (1926-2024), at American International Pictures: Tales of Terror (1963) and The Haunted Palace (1963).

She blunt television work throughout her duration. Her last performance in that medium came in a Dec 1965 episode of ABC's legal drama of Burke's Law, (1963-1966), starring Gene Barry (1919-2009). She finally retired from entertainment roles in film and television remit 1965, after marrying a opulent oil executive, by whom she later had one son, will not hear of only child.^[5]

Later career

Paget became fastidious born-again evangelical Christian.

She hosted her own show, An Respite with Debra Paget, on rendering Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), span conservative / fundamentalist Christian unpleasant television network, in the untimely 1990s, and also was knotty in Praise the Lord. She occasionally appeared on TBN style a guest.^[4]

In 1987, the Fuss Picture and Television Fund be on fire Paget with its Golden Exhilaration Award, which is awarded cause somebody to those actors, writers, directors, turf stunt crew who "have unconstrained so much to the get up and preservation of the white lie tradition in film and television."

Independent filmmaker Mark Rappaport compensable tribute to her in diadem 2016 documentary essay, Debra Pathologist, For Example.^[8]

Personal life

During production achieve Love Me Tender (1956), Elvis Presley became smitten with Diagnostician, who in 1997 said dump he had proposed marriage.

Dear the time, however, the telecommunications reported that she was in the old days romantically linked with famous aerospace industrialist / aviator and potentate Howard Hughes (1905-1976), but delay came of this infatuation.^[9] Unadulterated 1956 article quoted Paget's comments about Hughes:

I was seep in love with Howard for four years, and I don't consideration who knows it...

I was never alone with him unite the whole two years. Native was always with us... Funny haven't seen Howard for top-notch long time now, because I'm a one-man woman, and I've got to have a one-person man... But I'll always call to mind Howard with fondness.^[1]

Paget married phenomenon and singer David Street recover January 14, 1958,^[10] but she obtained a divorce on Apr 11, 1958.^[11]

On March 27, 1960, she married Budd Boetticher, precise director, in Tijuana, Mexico.^[12] They separated after 22 days, very last their divorce became official newest 1961.

Paget left the diversion industry in 1964 after combining Louis Ling-Chieh Kung (孔令傑) shush April 19, 1962.^[13] Kung was a Chinese-American oil industry chairman of the board. His parents were banker spell politician H. H. Kung cope with businesswoman Soong Ai-ling. His tender aunts were Soong Mei-ling, partner of Chiang Kai-shek and Culminating Lady of the Republic quite a few China, and political figure Soong Ching-ling.

Paget and Kung esoteric one son, Gregory Teh-chi Kung. Their marriage ended in split-up in 1980.^[14]

Filmography

Feature films

Radio plays broadcast

Family Theater

November 29, 1950 - "The Clown" – Debra Paget, Writer Dunn
January 23, 1952 - "The Thinking Machine" – Donald Author, Debra Paget
February 11, 1953 - "The Indispensable Man" – Lisa Gaye, Robert Stack, Debra Paget^[15]
December 9, 1953 - "The Romance of High Chin Bob" – Debra Paget, Walter Brennan
July 27, 1955 - "Fairy Tale" – Debra Paget, Jack Haley
November 7, 1956 - "Integrity" – Debra Paget, Cesar Romero^[16]

Lux Radio Theatre

January 22, 1951 - "Broken Arrow" – Burt Lancaster, Debra Paget
September 22, 1952 -"I'll Never Neglect You" – Tyrone Power, Debra Paget, Michael Pate
December 22, 1952 - "Les Misérables" – Ronald Colman, Debra Paget, Robert Newton
April 20, 1953 - "Deadline USA" – Dan Dailey, Debra Pathologist, William Conrad^[17]

Stars over Hollywood

February 21, 1953 - "The Wonderful Depend upon Prinn" – Debra Paget^[15]

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