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Debra Paget
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Born Debralee Griffin in Denver, Colorado, in August 1933, stunning actress Debra Paget was schooled in New York, studying dance and drama. She signed to a 20th Century-Fox contract in 1948. The studio gave Paget a small role in Cry of the City (1948), and by 1950 she was a featured performer in the western Broken Arrow. While at Fox, Paget was often cast with leading man Jeffrey Hunter. They co-starred in several films together, including Belles on Their Toes (1952) and Princess of the Nile (1954).
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Ben and Meg Cameron (Anthony Quinn and Debra Paget) are hardworking ranchers in the New Mexico desert whose happy life is disturbed when an old acquaintance arrives unexpectedly, armed with a secret and an agenda. and his marriage.
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Arriving by carriage to Arkham to claim their inheritance, Charles and his wife Ann (Debra Paget) are told that the town is haunted and that they are not wanted here. They are frightened when they witness the town mutants in the street (those who were born with severe birth defects), but refuse to leave without visiting their castle. When they enter the Burning Man Tavern to ask for directions, they are shunned except by Dr. Willet (Maxwell). Willet will tell them of the legend of the palace they inherited and of how his great-great-grandfather was accused of being a warlock. The grandfather, Kerwin, came to the village 150 years ago and built his palace out of stone transported from Europe, where he conducted secret experiments in the occult. It was believed he communicated with the dark underground gods and tried to bring them back to life.
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Debra Paget displays as much epidermis as the 1954 censors would allow in the escapist adventure Princess of the Nile. Ms. Paget is cast as Taura, a fearless 13th century princess who does her best to defend Egypt against an invading Bedouin (Michael Rennie). When not wielding her trusty scimitar, Taura poses as a dancing girl to undermine the Bedouin's plans. She is aided by the Prince Haidi (Jeffrey Hunter), son of the Caliph of Baghdad. The plotline is negligible: the audience was more interested in watching Debra Paget and scores of underclad lovelies undulating to the quasi-Eastern musical score by Lionel Newman. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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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 ... 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.[1]
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Debra married twice in the late 1950s, both times for only short periods, and gradually her film career ran out of energy. She worked with Fritz Lang on a double movie project, and for some film cultists this would give her far more prestige than any of her previous films. (What Debra made of working with Lang, notorious for being a tyrant, a bully and possibly a sadist, is not known. Patrick McGilligan seems to have written his biography of Lang without talking to Debra.) Debra went from Fritz Lang, a prestige director to Roger Corman, a zero prestige director, for three cheap horror movies which ended her film career. In the early '60s Debra married again, this time to a rich man, and retired.
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