जीवनी

Never auditioned for द टेन कमांडमेंट्स (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.

She took her screen name from Lord and Lady Paget of England, UK, from whom her family are descended.

In 1987 she was given the Golden Boot Award by the Motion Picture and Television Fund for her work in westerns.

She was pleased when she found out that actress Debra Winger was named after her, since Winger's father was a fan of Paget's.

Priscilla Presley copied Debra's hairstyle from Love Me Tender (1956) to attract Elvis in 1959.

There's a difference in the morality [of today]. I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life. Those types of films are few and far between today. As a result, I seldom go to the movies.

[Twentieth Century Fox] was a wonderful place. It was like a separate little world of its own. I remember the huge buildings full of antique cars, stagecoaches and varied pieces of architecture. It was just incredible, and so much fun to wander through. There were New York, Western and Midwestern streets, a Roman square, the countryside...it was huge, and an extraordinary place.

[on a sexy seduction scene with Ron Randell in Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)] This was a very unusual part for me, you know, and that was one reason I did it. It was kind of a veer-off from what I usually did.

[on having to wear brown contact lenses for her part in द टेन कमांडमेंट्स (1956)] I've worn contacts three different times in movies, but they're awful to work in because the Kleig lights heat them up. I have to keep taking them off about every half hour, but they make my eyes the right color for [Cecil B. DeMille]. If it hadn't been for the lenses I wouldn't have gotten the part.

I was pleased to learn a contemporary actress, Debra Winger, was named after me.