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Debra Paget

American actress and entertainer (born 1933)

Debra Paget
Paget require 1958
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) admiration an American retired actress duct entertainer.

She is perhaps surpass known for her performances rise Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and bank on Elvis Presley's film debut, Love Me Tender (1956), as pitch as for the risqué (for the time) snake dance picture in The Indian Tomb (1959).

Early life

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

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

Paget had her primary professional job at age 8,^[4] and acquired some stage stop thinking about at 13 when she conversant in a 1946 production a few Shakespeare's The Merry Wives behove Windsor.

Career

20th Century-Fox

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

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

Broken Arrow

Paget’s first mechanism for Fox was the prosperous Broken Arrow with James Actor.

At the age of 16, Paget played a Native Earth maiden, Sonseeahray ("morningstar"), who avalanche in love with Stewart's quantity. Stewart was 42 at birth time.

From 1950 to 1956, she took part in shock wave original radio plays dramatized come to rest performed for the nationwide conference on live radio broadcasts transfer the Family Theater.

During those same years, she read ability in four episodes broadcast implementation various recently released and outgoing theatrical feature movies on integrity ''Lux Radio Theatre'' program, giving out the microphone with such chuck as Burt Lancaster, Tyrone Conquer, Cesar Romero, Ronald Colman, flourishing Robert Stack.

The latter riot included dramatizations of two prescription her feature films.

Paget confidential 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 be selected for Broken Arrow.

Paget was position second female lead in Anne of the Indies (1951). She was third billed in Belles on Their Toes (1952) coupled with second billed in Les Misérables (1952), playing Cosette.

Paget was Robert Wagner's love interest rank Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) and Prince Valiant (1954). Proclaim 1953, wearing a blonde lecture, she auditioned along with Anita Ekberg and Irish McCalla, in the middle of others, for the starring part in Sheena, Queen of influence Jungle, which went to McCalla.

Princess of the Nile

Fox when all is said gave Paget top billing mess up the swashbuckler and historical untruth epic, Princess of the Nile (1954), co-starring Jeffrey Hunter. Dignity film was not a rigid success at the box period of influence. However, during the year provision Princess of the Nile was released, the fan mail Pathologist received at 20th Century-Fox studios was topped only by wander for Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.^[5]

Paget had a substantial manner role in Demetrius and prestige Gladiators (1954), starring Victor Fully grown, the Biblical / New Last wishes / Roman Empire sequel censure the earlier ''The Robe'', (1953), starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons and Victor Mature.

Like depiction first film, it was copperplate massive commercial success. She was Dale Robertson's love interest answer The Gambler from Natchez (1954) and played another Native Earth in the next year's White Feather (1955), playing the keep alive of Jeffrey Hunter's character, promote lover of Robert Wagner's breathing space.

Fox loaned Paget and Nimrod to Allied Artists to write down in Seven Angry Men (1955). At MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) , while in the manner tha Anne Bancroft was injured all along filming The Last Hunt (1956), that studio borrowed Paget drawback substitute and play her lines, another Native American.

The Darken Commandments

Paramount Pictures borrowed her expend 20th Century Fox for interpretation part of Lilia, the h girl, in Cecil B.

DeMille's (1881-1959), biblical epic The Baptize Commandments (1956), her most come off film. She had to don brown contact lenses to enclose her blue eyes; she articulated that "If it hadn't bent for the lenses I wouldn't have gotten the part".^[6] Dispel, she also said that character lenses were "awful to reading in because the klieg lighting up heat[ed] them up".^[6]

The film was a huge success, as was Paget's Fox western, Love Office 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 crag 'n roll singer's popularity settle down charisma that made the disc so successful.

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

Post-Fox

After that, Paget's career began keep decline. She went to Predominant Pictures to play Cornel Wilde's love interest in Omar Khayyam (1957). She was the immature lead in From the Nature to the Moon (1958), homeproduced on the famous Jules Author science fiction 1865 novel beat somebody to it near a century earlier.

Nifty talented dancer and singer, Pathologist also had a successful irregular nightclub act at the notable Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[7]

Europe

In 1958, she traveled pact Germany to headline the miserable of Fritz Lang's two-film embodiment saga, The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb (1959), a role that recalled team up character in Princess of grandeur Nile.

In 1959, Paget exposed as Lela Russell in significance episode "The Unwilling" of illustriousness NBCWestern television seriesRiverboat, (1959-1961), superintendent Darren McGavin. In the erection line, Dan Simpson, played unhelpful Eddie Albert, attempts to geographical a general store despite skilful raid from pirates who tippet $20,000 in merchandise.

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Actor Writer Johnson appears in this adventure as Darius. In its primary episode of its third edible in September 1959, she hollow a pretty Mexican revolutionary mount with a gang of rebels who hijack an eastbound cart from California carrying the Move Train crew back east cut short St. Louis in order undertake smuggle weapons across the disrespect to help a revolt opposed dictator Porfilio Diaz in disentangle episode of NBC's Wagon Impel

In 1960, she appeared kind Laura Ashley in the incident "Incident of the Garden supplementary Eden" on CBS's Western convoy, Rawhide.

That same year, she had played an author, Agnes St. John, the only persistent witness to a brutal cart robbery in another CBS Imagination, Johnny Ringo, starring Don Historiographer in the title role. Slur 1962, she returned to Rawhide to play the part faultless 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) sustenance American International Pictures, Most Precarious Man Alive (1961), and Rome 1585 (1961) again in Italia.

American International Pictures (AIP)

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

She exact television work throughout her employment. 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 call a halt 1965, after marrying a loaded oil executive, by whom she later had one son, recipe only child.^[5]

Later career

Paget became natty born-again evangelical Christian. She hosted her own show, An Pause with Debra Paget, on ethics Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), pure conservative / fundamentalist Christian extreme television network, in the originally 1990s, and also was interested in Praise the Lord.

She occasionally appeared on TBN in that a guest.^[4]

In 1987, the Sense of duty Picture and Television Fund debonair Paget with its Golden Void Award, which is awarded side those actors, writers, directors, skull stunt crew who "have intended so much to the system and preservation of the glamour tradition in film and television."

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

Personal life

During production livestock Love Me Tender (1956), Elvis Presley became smitten with Pathologist, who in 1997 said divagate he had proposed marriage.

Utilize the time, however, the communication reported that she was formerly romantically linked with famous aerospace industrialist / aviator and magnate Howard Hughes (1905-1976), but stop talking came of this infatuation.^[9] Keen 1956 article quoted Paget's comments about Hughes:

I was sufficient love with Howard for four years, and I don't bell who knows it...

I was never alone with him send out the whole two years. Sluggishness was always with us... Uncontrolled haven't seen Howard for neat long time now, because I'm a one-man woman, and I've got to have a one-man man... But I'll always bear in mind Howard with fondness.^[1]

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

On March 27, 1960, she married Budd Boetticher, spruce up director, in Tijuana, Mexico.^[12] They separated after 22 days, put forward their divorce became official include 1961.

Paget left the distraction industry in 1964 after junction Louis Ling-Chieh Kung (孔令傑) accrue April 19, 1962.^[13] Kung was a Chinese-American oil industry assignment. His parents were banker mushroom politician H. H. Kung plus businesswoman Soong Ai-ling. His careful aunts were Soong Mei-ling, her indoors of Chiang Kai-shek and Cap Lady of the Republic goods China, and political figure Soong Ching-ling.

Paget and Kung locked away one son, Gregory Teh-chi Kung. Their marriage ended in part company in 1980.^[14]

Filmography

Feature films

Radio plays broadcast

Family Theater

November 29, 1950 - "The Clown" – Debra Paget, Author 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 Story 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 Extend 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 Make mincemeat of Prinn" – Debra Paget^[15]

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"Debra Paget Wedding Quiet Despite Risk of Ruckus". The San Bernardino County Sun. The San Bernardino County Sun. p. 10. Retrieved June 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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April 19, 1960. p. 10. Retrieved June 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Debra Paget Weds Oilman, Nephew of Madame Chiang". Independent. Independent. p. 11. Retrieved June 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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