18 Facts About Debra Paget

Debra Paget was born on Debralee Griffin; August 19,1933 and is a retired American actress and entertainer.

Debra Paget is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments and in Elvis Presley's film debut, Love Me Tender, as well as for the risque snake dance scene in The Indian Tomb.

Debra Paget was enrolled in the Hollywood Professional School when she was 11.

Debra 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.

Debra Paget had small roles in several subsequent motion pictures in the next year in: Mother Is a Freshman, It Happens Every Spring and House of Strangers.

At the age of 16, Debra Paget played a Native American maiden, Sonseeahray, who falls in love with Stewart's character.

Debra Paget had a sizable role in Fourteen Hours and was reunited with Broken Arrow director Delmer Daves and star Jeff Chandler in Bird of Paradise, playing a role similar to Broken Arrow.

Debra Paget was the second female lead in Anne of the Indies.

Debra Paget was third billed in Belles on Their Toes and second billed in Les Miserables, playing Cosette.

Debra Paget was Robert Wagner's love interest in Stars and Stripes Forever and Prince Valiant.

Fox finally gave Debra Paget top billing with the swashbuckler and historical fiction epic, Princess of the Nile, co-starring Jeffrey Hunter.

However, during the year after Princess of the Nile was released, the fan mail Debra Paget received at 20th Century-Fox studios was topped only by that for Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.

Debra Paget was Dale Robertson's love interest in The Gambler from Natchez and played another Native American in the next year's White Feather, playing the sister of Jeffrey Hunter's character, and lover of Robert Wagner's character.

Debra Paget had to wear brown contact lenses to hide her blue eyes; she said that "If it hadn't been for the lenses I wouldn't have gotten the part".

Debra Paget was the juvenile lead in From the Earth to the Moon, based on the famous Jules Verne science fiction 1865 novel of near a century earlier.

Debra Paget finally retired from entertainment roles in film and television in 1965, after marrying a wealthy oil executive, by whom she later had one son, her only child.

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

Debra Paget left the entertainment industry in 1964 after marrying Louis Ling-Chieh Kung on April 19,1962.