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Debra Paget (1933- )

8x10 b/w In Person signed portrait from 'The Ten Commandments'. She added '10 Commandments' under her signature.


Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

Auburnhaired beauty blessed with a demurely pretty face and a curvaceous figure, who (perhaps unconsciously) infused many of her screen characterizations with both virginal innocence and seductive passion. Signed at age 15 to a long-term contract by 20th Century-Fox, Paget (nee Debralee Griffin) made her debut in Cry of the City (1948). She appeared in Westerns, swashbucklers, and Biblical dramas throughout the 1950s, making her biggest impressions as an Indian squaw in Broken Arrow (1950) and a South Seas beauty in Bird of Paradise (1951). Her other films include House of Strangers, It Happens Every Spring (both 1949), Stars and Stripes Forever, Fourteen Hours (both 1951), Belles on Their Toes (1952), Les Miserables (also 1952, somewhat out of her depth as Cosette), Prince Valiant, Demetrius and the Gladiators (both 1954), White Feather (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Love Me Tender (also 1956, opposite Elvis Presley in his first film), Omar Khayyam (1957), and From the Earth to the Moon (1958).

In 1958 she went to Germany to star for Fritz Lang in his back-to-back productions The Tiger of Eschnapur (1958) and The Indian Tomb (1959), edited together and released here as Journey to the Lost City (1959). These exotic adventures saw Paget effectively cast as an Indian temple dancer, whose seductive wrigglings were the highlights of the films. She also starred in Cleopatra's Daughter (1960) while overseas. Back in America, Paget found her star on the wane and, after appearing in the horror films The Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), and The Haunted Palace (1963), retired from the screen. Still heartstoppingly gorgeous, she frequently turns up at Hollywood social events. Paget was once married-for all of three weeks-to director Budd Boetticher.


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