Lisa Gaye Profile

Lisa Gaye

	(Lezlie Gae Griffin)
6 March 35	is born in Denver, Colorado. She is the sister of actresses Teala Loring, a.k.a. Judith Gibson, Debra Paget, and actor Ruell Shayne. Her mother, Marguerite Gibson, had vaudeville and nightclub acts.
June 53	graduates from Hollywood Professional School
August 54	works at another studio while her sister Debra is in Princess of the Nile
January 55	lives with the rest of her family at sister Debra’s 26-room Beverly Hills home on Crescent Avenue
56	when Universal-International wants to borrow her sister Debra Paget for a film role, Debra's studio decides against lending her, and Lisa goes in her place and comes back with a long-term contract.
May 57	marries Bently C. Ware. He's 29; she's 22. Her bedroom is the only vacant one in her sister Debra’s 26-room mansion.
61	tests for the part of Anita in the film version of West Side Story. The part eventually goes to Rita Moreno.
5 July 63	her daughter, Lisa Janell, is born in Los Angeles
January 77	becomes the widow of Ware, who passes away at age 49 in Los Angeles from a heart attack
88	moves to Texas, where her sisters Debra and Meg reside
08	has seven grandchildren and has never remarried
14 July 16	dies at age 81 in Houston, Texas
?	as Lisa Gaye, she is interred next to Ware at Section C-14, Row D, Site 162, Houston National Cemetery, Houston, Texas

Sources: Janell Ware Schiffbauer, Jim Thomas, Photoplay, Picture Show Annual, Motion Picture, www.Ancestry.com
Recommended Books: Ladies of the Western by Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers
Links: Filmography Luis' Lisa Gaye Page