Anecdotes

Spoke with a pronounced "lisp" in real life, every -day speech. This speech characteristic only disappeared in front of the camera.

He and Laraine Day were the first Mormon actors to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Their induction was on February 8, 1960.

Jagger was very taken by the character of Brigham Young, reacting warmly when his performance was praised by then President of the LDS Church, Heber J. Grant. This led to a careful study of the Mormon faith for Jagger, who was ultimately baptized a member of the faith in 1972. Subsequently, he willed his personal papers and movie memorabilia to the Harold B. Lee library at Brigham Young University.

Jagger and Gloria Ling, a national magazine researcher in NY, were denied a marriage license in Santa Monica California because of a California law forbidding the marriage of Caucasians and Mongolians, and "Miss Ling's father was born in China." They flew to Albequerque, NM where there was no such bar to interracial marriage.

Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: Un homme de fer (1949), La tunique (1953), Au risque de se perdre (1959) and Elmer Gantry, le charlatan (1960).

A staunch Republican, the actor openly supported Joseph McCarthy during his investigations of alleged Communist spies in the U.S. State Department, the validity of which not borne out by the NSA's Venona project. He also insisted (successfully) that the blacklisted Joseph Losey be replaced as director on "X - The Unknown", a British science-fiction film he starred in in 1956.

Played one-armed villains in two Westerns - La vallée de la peur (1947) and Le fier rebelle (1958).

As of February, 1982, Jagger lived at 326 Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica, California 90402.