{"id":351,"date":"2024-09-15T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2024-09-15T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T14:59:51","slug":"inside-the-life-of-debra-paget-and-why-elvis-was-obsessed-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Inside the life of Debra Paget and why Elvis was \u2018obsessed\u2019 with her"},"content":{"rendered":"

Debra Paget was extremely beautiful in her prime and charmed millions of Americans when she starred in Elvis Presley\u2019s film debut,\u00a0Love Me Tender<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The talented actress was \u201dtouched by the hand of God,\u201d according to legendary director Cecil B DeMille<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Apparently, even the\u00a0\u2018King of Rock and Roll\u2019 became obsessed with her\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Debra Page was born on\u00a0August 19, 1933, in Denver, Colorado. Her real was Dabralee Griffin \u2013 but the actress changed her name as she moved towards movie stardom.<\/p>\n

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Raised in a showbiz family, Debra\u2019s parents moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s so that they all could be closer to developing the film industry in Hollywood. (Debra\u2019s two sisters, Tala Loring and Lisa Gaye, also had substantial film & TV careers).<\/p>\n

Debra, who always wanted to be a dancer, has described herself as a \u201dpost-depression\u201d baby. She came into the world during a devastating and prolonged economic recession. Her family didn\u2019t have much, but Debra held her parents in high regard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I looked back, we had so much love in our home,\u201d Debra said when being\u00a0interviewed by Dale Evans Rogers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Most beautiful legs in the world\u2019<\/h2>\n

Pushed by her mother, Debra enrolled in the\u00a0Hollywood Professional School<\/a>\u00a0when she was 11.<\/p>\n

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The talented young girl landed never doubted herself, landing her first professional job aged eight. Soon after that, she starred in a production of\u00a0Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Her motion picture career began at the age of 14, and her big break came in 1950 when she was cast in\u00a0Broken Arrow.<\/em>\u00a0Co-starring alongside James Stewart, Debra Paget portrayed a Native American maiden called Sonseeahray (\u201cMorningstar\u201d).<\/p>\n

Debra\u2019s \u201cexotic\u201d looks won her several roles in adventure dramas, and she soon earned the reputation as the only starlet who had never been kissed.<\/p>\n

In the 1950s, she earned the title \u201cThe most beautiful legs in the world\u201d when the National Association of Hosiery Manufactures polled 15,000 people in the industry. The deeply religious Debra won by a wide margin, according to The Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n

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As a 14-year-old, Debra had signed an exclusive contract with 20th Century Fox. But it was when Paramount Pictures borrowed Debra for\u00a0The Ten Commandments<\/em>\u00a0that she made her most successful movie.<\/p>\n

Debra played the part of Lilia, the water girl, in\u00a0Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s giant biblical, spectacular movie.\u00a0The blue-eyed Debra had to wear brown contact lenses \u2013 something that caused quite some trouble for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it hadn\u2019t been for the lenses, I wouldn\u2019t have gotten the part. They were awful to work in because the\u00a0klieg lights\u00a0heated them up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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The movie, which won seven Academy Awards, changed her life forever. \u201dIt was probably the highlight of my career, \u201d Debra said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Debra Paget was extremely beautiful in her prime and charmed millions of Americans when she starred in Elvis Presley\u2019s film debut,\u00a0Love Me Tender. The talented actress was \u201dtouched by the hand of God,\u201d according to legendary director Cecil B DeMille. Apparently, even the\u00a0\u2018King of Rock and Roll\u2019 became obsessed with her\u2026 Debra Page was born …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}