Delmer Daves’ Broken Arrow (‘50), which starred James Stewart and Jeff Chandler, was shot in June, July and August of 1949. Stewart was 41 during filming, and 15 year-old Debra Paget, born in late August of 1933, played Sonseeahray, the love interest and eventual wife of Stewart’s Tom Jeffords.
Imagine a 41 year-old superstar playing the lover and husband of a 15 year-old actress today. A 26 year age gap! #MeToo fury!
I propose cancelling Stewart and Daves posthumously. As a minor Paget had no agency and was clearly manipulated into submitting to sexual wifely situatione, exposing her to carnal matters at an inappropriate age.
