Debra Paget

Debra Paget
Debra Paget
Background information
Born as:	Debralee Griffin
Born	Aug 19, 1933 Denved, CO
Zodiac	Leo
Spouse(s):	David Street (1958 - 1958) divorced Budd Boetticher (1960 - 1961) divorced Louis C. Kung (1962 - 1980) divorced
Occupation:	Actress
Years active	1948–1965
Height:	5' 2" (1.57m)
Weight:	115 lbs (52 kg)
Vitals:	33B-24-35 in (83B-60-88 cm)
Hair color:	Dark brown
Eye color:	Blue
Nationality:	American
Skin color:	White
IMDB #:	0656428
AMG:	[1] {{{1}}}

Debra Paget (born Debralee Griffin; August 19, 1933) is a retired American actress and entertainer. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and in Elvis Presley's film debut, Love Me Tender (1956), as well as for the risqué (for the time) snake dance scene in The Indian Tomb (1959).

Early life

Paget was born in Denver, Colorado, one of five children born to Margaret Allen (née Gibson), a former actress (one source says, "ex-burlesque queen"), and Frank Henry Griffin, a painter. The family moved from Denver to Los Angeles, California, in the 1930s to be close to the developing film industry. Paget was enrolled in the Hollywood Professional School when she was 11. Margaret was determined that Debra and her siblings would also make their careers in show business. Three of Paget's siblings, Marcia (Teala Loring), Leslie (Lisa Gaye), and Frank (Ruell Shayne), entered show business.

Paget had her first professional job at age 8, and acquired some stage experience at 13 when she acted in a 1946 production of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Personal life

During production of Love Me Tender (1956), Elvis Presley became smitten with Paget, who in 1997 said that he had proposed marriage. At the time, however, the media reported that she was romantically linked with Howard Hughes and nothing came of this infatuation. A 1956 article quoted Paget's comments about Hughes:

I was in love with Howard (Hughes) for two years, and I don't care who knows it... I was never alone with him in the whole two years. Mother was always with us... I haven't seen Howard for a long time now, because I'm a one-man woman, and I've got to have a one-woman man... But I'll always remember Howard with fondness.

Paget married actor and singer David Street on January 14, 1958, but she obtained a divorce on April 11, 1958.

On March 27, 1960, she married Budd Boetticher, a director, in Tijuana, Mexico. They separated after 22 days, and their divorce became official in 1961.

Paget left the entertainment industry in 1964 after marrying Ling C. Kung (孔令傑) on April 19, 1962. Kung was a Chinese-American oil industry executive. His parents were banker and politician H. H. Kung and businesswoman Soong Ai-ling. Through his father, he was a descendant of Confucius. His maternal aunts were Soong Mei-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek and First Lady of the Republic of China, and political figure Soong Ching-ling. Paget and Kung had one son, Gregory Teh-chi Kung. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1980.

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  The Indian Tomb (1959)

Career

Wikipedia article: Debra Paget Career

Filmography

Wikipedia article: Debra Paget Filmography

Discography

Wikipedia article: Debra Paget Discography

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Debra_Paget

External links

• Debra Paget at the Internet Movie Database
• Debra Paget at All Music Guide

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