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The driver pulled up, and there were some real Indians hanging around. I am a people person and got along great with everyone—except a couple of the directors, who were harsh. I have since quit myself.
Lisa Gaye, Actress and Dancer in ‘Rock Around the Clock,’ Dies at 81
Lisa Gaye, the auburn-haired actress and dancer who starred in the 1956 musical films Rock Around the Clock and Shake Rattle & Rock!, died Thursday in Houston, her family announced.
Ya-Ta-Hay.’ (Laughs) The words mean whatever you want them to mean. They knew I was a lady—they may have looked, but they didn’t touch or say anything. I did his reading at Universal as well. I played Colette DuBois on ‘The Bob Cummings Show’, or ‘Love That Bob’ as it later became. We rode up in the Hollywood Hills.”
Concerning her lone big-screen Western co-star, Audie Murphy, who gave so many co-stars trouble, Lisa states, “He was a gentleman—always!
He was a really nice man; I always thought he was wonderful. We were both at Universal where, at one time, he had his leg in a cast and had to walk with a cane and I had a back brace. It was that simple.
I was rigged with wires so the rounds would explode around me. The youngest of three actress-sisters (Teala Loring and Debra Paget being her older siblings; kid sister Meg was a non-professional), the future star came to California with her family, when sister Teala received a Paramount contract and the name Judith Gibson.
He taught me a lot! The brace went from the back of the neck to the tailbone; it was rigid, but I could walk.”
Regarding some of her other TV Western leading men: “Richard Boone was one of my favorites—he wanted me to go to New York to study with a drama coach—he was very generous; I never desired to be a star—I just loved to work.
When I saw the show, it could have been anybody on that rock. I like living in Houston, it’s quite different from L.A. Here, most people seem to drive a truck, and they don’t always wait for an off-ramp. Dale worked with Debbie in ‘Gambler From Natchez’. I was contracted to be a back up for Yvonne De Carlo; Race Gentry was supposedly Rock Hudson’s backup, but I could never see it.
We zoomed right up to the soundstage where the doors were closed. God watched over me during that time!