Debra Paget

An acting career was always in the cards for 'Debra Paget' (qv) (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' (qv) got her movie breaks in the 1940s, 'Lisa Gaye' (qv) was a film and TV star in the 50s and 60s, and even brother 'Frank Griffin' (qv) (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)_ (qv), 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.::Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>