StatsBirth Name: Debralee Griffin Age: 79, born 19 August 1933 Country of origin:  United States Height: 5' 2" Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
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An acting career was always in the cards for Debra Paget (nee Debralee Griffin) and her siblings, coming from a show biz family and being the offspring of a "stage mother" anxious to get her kids into the movies. Paget's sister Teala Loring got her movie breaks in the 1940s, Lisa Gaye was a film and TV star in the 50s and 60s, and even brother Frank Griffin (acting as 'Ruell Shayne') landed some film jobs. Paget got a 20th Century-Fox contract at age 14 and her first role in the film n
An acting career was always in the cards for Debra Paget (nee Debralee Griffin) and her siblings, coming from a show biz family and being the offspring of a "stage mother" anxious to get her kids into the movies. Paget's sister Teala Loring got her movie breaks in the 1940s, Lisa Gaye was a film and TV star in the 50s and 60s, and even brother Frank Griffin (acting as 'Ruell Shayne') landed some film jobs. Paget got a 20th Century-Fox contract at age 14 and her first role in the film noir Cry of the City (1948), her first of nearly 20 movies at the studio, mostly Westerns, swashbucklers and period musicals. Every inch (all five-foot-two of her) the Hollywood star, Paget retired from the screen after marrying a Chinese millionaire in 1962.
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She took her screen name from Lord and Lady Paget of England, UK, from whom her family are descended.
Sister of Teala Loring, Lisa Gaye and Frank Griffin.
Tested for the lead role in the 1955 TV series, "Sheena: Queen of the Jungle" (1955).
Third husband Louis C. Kung was a Chinese-American oil company executive and a nephew of Madame Chiang.
Aunt of Roxane Griffin.
Never auditioned for the movie The Ten Commandments (1956). The part of Lilia was the last of the lead roles to cast. Cecil B. DeMille instinctively asked her one day to report to Paramount to start work. He had followed her career and felt that "the hand of God" was on her.
Ex-aunt-in-law of Skip Crank.
Was originally going to star with Robert Wagner and Victor Mature in The Proud Ones (1956).
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