Debra Paget

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Debra Paget (born Debralee Griffin ) (born August 19, 1933 in Denver , Colorado ) is an American actress .

Career

She was born into a family of actors. Her two sisters and her brother were also active in film and television , driven not least by their ambitious mother . Debra Paget took dance and acting classes in New York . At the age of 14 she was signed by 20th Century Fox and made her debut in Robert Siodmak's thriller Schrei der Großstadt in 1948 .

At the beginning of her career, the still minor was marketed as a “sweet country girl” who lives with her mother and shares a room with her sister. In her films she usually gave the "seductive innocence". Her exotic appearance led to numerous roles as an Indian and oriental beauty.

In the fifteen years of her career, she was cast in about thirty films. She had her greatest successes in 1950 at the side of James Stewart in the western The Broken Arrow , 1956 in Cecil B. DeMille's monumental film The Ten Commandments and in the same year as a partner of Elvis Presley in his first movie Powder Steam and Hot Songs .

At this point, Debra Paget's contract with Fox had already expired and had not been renewed because her appeal to the cinema audience had not lived up to expectations, despite the fact that she was considered one of the most beautiful film actresses of her time. From then on, she tried to achieve a more eccentric and permissive image in her public relations work and role selection , appeared on the show stages in Las Vegas , but was also unable to convince critics and the audience.

In 1959 she took on a leading role in Fritz Lang's lavish German productions Der Tiger von Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb . Her erotic temple dances, which were daring for the time (and censored for the version shown in the USA), were among the highlights of Lang's late works, which would only achieve a certain cult status internationally after years .

In the early 1960s, she appeared in a film role as a murderer and made two horror films for Roger Corman . After that, she ended her film career and retired into private life.

Life

Debra Paget was married to her colleague David Street for a few weeks in 1958. In 1960 she married the film director Budd Boetticher . However, the marriage did not withstand the rigors of a joint film project in Mexico and was divorced the following year. In 1964 Debra Paget married the multimillionaire Louis Kung from China , a nephew of Madame Chiang Kai-shek . The marriage, which resulted in a son, was divorced in 1980.

Debra Paget now lives in Houston , Texas .

Filmography (selection)

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