Post #559263 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 9:05 AM

Nice, but NOTHING ever beats Miss Paget's dance in Fritz Lang's "Indian Tomb"...

...to which I posted a link to in the very first post which opened this thread:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=32511&forum=1&vpost=456862

(in which I also offered some guidance as to the definition of the Exotica girl, guidance that has fallen an deaf ears a lot in this thread unfortunately)

No wonder that Elvis had the hots for her!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x0uKy5GfMw&feature=related

"Love Me Tender 1956 -- Elvis' First Movie -- Starring Elvis Presley as Clint Reno and Debra Paget
Elvis got a flat $100,00 fee for the movie. Debra Paget first appeared with Elvis on the Milton Berle Show in June 1956. She began her career at the age of fifteen in Cry of the City (her brother Ruell Shayne had a bit role in Love Me Tender) Contrary to popular opinion Debra Paget did not give Elvis his first screen kiss. That honor went to Jana Lund in Loving You 1957

During filming Elvis fell madly in love with co-star Debra Paget. He thought she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. However, Paget was not interested because, at the time, she was dating Howard Hughes. At nights he would drive over to Paget's family home and park outside for hours watching who was arriving. Elvis never got over his first love. From then on he searched for the Paget look in almost every woman. Many believe that Elvis was smitten by Priscilla because she was a variation of Debra Paget. Upon learning this, Priscilla went so far as to try to look like her rival by changing her hair."

Miss Paget eventually got sick of being typecast as the Exotica girl in the mid-sixites and married a Chinese oil millionaire, became a Christian and had her own religious TV show for a while.