Talk:Debra Paget
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Photo of this Beauty, please.
- Coming up. (BTW: It helps if you sign your comments with the four tildes. That at least puts a time stamp on them.)--Chris 04:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Updating Paget page
I'm about to replace the contents of the Debra Paget page. Just in case, I've archived the old contents here -- they're not too lengthy.
Debra Paget (born August 19, 1933 in Denver, Colorado) is an American film actress. Debra Paget was born Debralee Griffin into a family of actors. Her mother Margaret Griffin had been a stage actress. Her sister Lesli Gaye Griffin acted in movies and on television under the alias of Lisa Gaye. Her other sister, Marcia Griffin appeared in movies at first using the alias of Judith Gibson, and later as Teala Loring]]. Frank Griffin, her brother, also acted in movies before becoming a makeup artist. Debra herself was fourteen years old when she made her first film. Using the stage name Debra Paget she went on to a fifteen year career involving more than thirty films that included significant roles in notable projects such as "Lilia" in 1956's The Ten Commandments. That same year she also starred opposite Elvis Presley in Love Me Tender. In the late 1950's Paget made a number of films in Germany for director Fritz Lang. Her last major film was The Haunted Palace with Vincent Price in 1963, but she continued making appearances in American television programs for several more years. During the 1990's she hosted a show called An Interlude With Debra Paget on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian television network. Paget was married to singer-actor David Street in January 1958, but the marriage ended less than three months later. In March 1960 she married director Budd Boetticher. Paget and Boetticher divorced in August 1961. In April 1962 she married oil executive Ling-Chieh "Louis" K'ung, a nephew of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek. Her son, Gregory K'ung, was born in June 1964. Paget and K'ung divorced in 1980.
--Chris 04:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Images from which film?
I've just discovered that the picture showing Paget's "sinuous" dancing may not be from Princess of the Nile, but from Fritz Lang's later Journey to the Lost City. Further research is needed.
And since this looks like one of those cases where the answers are not on the Internet, finding them could take a while. (My budget precludes just buying the DVDs.) --Chris 13:57, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- I own the DVDs, and you're correct. The scene is from Lang's Lost City. I believe the original cut was titled "Der Tiger von Eschnapur" and combined with "Das Indische Grabmal" to make the final cut. 70.111.128.244 15:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Probable Inaccuracy Concerning Paget's Mother
I have reason to believe that Paget's mother was not the Ella Margaret Gibson who allegedly confessed to murdering William Desmond Taylor. Mrs. Griffin's first child, Mareta Eloise Griffin (known later as Teala Loring) was born 6 October 1924 in Denver, Colorado.
Ella Margaret Gibson was arrested on 3 November 1923 at her home in Hollywood, CA during a nation-wide blackmail sting but had the charges dropped six days later. (Source: http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/TAYLOROLOGY/taylor85.txt) An entry from the 1923-1924 Motion Picture Studio Directory corroborates Ella Margaret Gibson's address:
[Entry in the 1923-4 Motion Picture Studio Directory] PALMER, Patricia; b. San Francisco, Calif.; educ. Calif. and Colo.; stage experience, vaud. and stock; screen experience, 8 yrs., Christie, Vitagraph, Paramount ("The Cowboy and the Lady," "Mr. Billings Spends His Dime"), Cyrus J. Williams Prod. ("Things Men Do"), American ("The Web of the Law," "The Two Hellions"). Hght. 5, 1; wght, 110; golden brown hair, dark blue eyes. Home ad. 2324 Beachwood Dr.; phone Hollywood, Calif., 436-130.
(Source: http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/TAYLOROLOGY/taylor84.txt)
At this point, she was living in Hollywood, CA under a pseudonym due to a prior prostitution charge. Furthermore, Gibson did not marry until 9 February 1935 to Elbert E. Lewis, an auditor for the Socony Vacuum Oil Company. (Source: http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/TAYLOROLOGY/taylor90.txt) Yet IMDB shows that Teala Loring's sisters Debra Paget and Lisa Gaye were born in 1933 and 1935, respectively under the Griffin name.
I motion to have the section from the trivia associating Paget's mother with Gibson removed.
70.111.128.244 16:15, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
