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Debra Paget
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[edit] Early life and career
Debra Paget was born in Denver, Colorado to show-business parents. Her birth name was Debralee Griffin; she later took the stage name of Paget from two of her ancestors, Lord and Lady Paget of England. The family moved from Denver to Los Angeles in the 1930s to be close to the developing film industry. Her mother, actress Margaret Griffin, was determined that Debra and her siblings would also make their careers in show business. This ambition was realized: Paget's sisters Judith ("Teala Loring") and Lezlie ("Lisa Gaye"), and her brother Frank ("Ruell Shayne") all entered the business as either cast or crew.<sup>[1]</sup>
Paget had her first professional job at age 8,<sup>[1]</sup> and acquired some stage experience at 13 when she acted in a 1946 production of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. In the period 1950-1956 she also took part in six original radio plays for Family Theater. During those same years, she read parts in four episodes of Lux Radio Theater, sharing the microphone with such actors as Burt Lancaster, Tyrone Power, Cesar Romero, Ronald Colman, and Robert Stack. The latter set included dramatizations of two of her feature films.
Paget's first notable film role was as "Tina Riconti" in Cry of the City, a 1948 crime drama directed by Robert Siodmak. Fresh out of high school in 1949, she acted in three other films before being signed by 20th Century-Fox.
Her first vehicle under Fox was 1950's Broken Arrow, a film that James Stewart credits with reviving his acting career after World War II. (Stewart had served in the Air Force reserve, rising to the rank of Major General.) Paget played an Indian maiden who gives up her life to save Stewart's character. A box office success, the film was good for her career too. She went on to starring roles in a variety of films, appearing along with such durable actors as James Stewart, Richard ba<x>sehart, Michael Rennie, Cornel Wilde, Raymond Massey, Vincent Price, Charleton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anthony Quinn, Edward G. Robinson, Elvis Presley, Joseph Cotten, Robert Wagner and Donald Crisp.
[edit] Selected film roles
[edit] Belles on their Toes
Released in 1950, Cheaper by the Dozen is ba<x>sed on the real-life story of efficiency expert Frank Gilbreth and his large family. Belles on Their Toes is the 1952 sequel starring Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Jeffrey Hunter, and Edward Arnold. Paget replaced Patti Bailey as "Martha Gilbreth", the third oldest daughter, in the well-regarded comedy.
[edit] House of Strangers
In this film from early in her career, Paget plays "Maria Domenico", a largely decorative role. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the 1948 film noir classic stars Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, and Richard Conte as the chief members of the turbulent Monetti family. (The film is also known as East Side Story.)
[edit] Princess of the Nile
Set in A.D. 1249, this 1954 film stars Paget in dual roles as Shalimar, an Egyptian princess striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, and as Taura the dancing girl. Via a secret underground canal, the regal princess swims to the seedy establishment in town where, as the fiery Taura, she plies her terpsichorean wares—and is a cunning spy against the forces of evil, as personified by Michael Rennie, who plays the Bedouin bad guy. The Technicolor production also features Jeffrey Hunter, Dona Drake, and Michael Ansara. It is typical action-adventure fare, notable chiefly for Taura's energetic dance numbers, which the Hays Office, following its prohibition of suggestive dancing, reportedly trimmed.
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