Acting

Patricia Alphin

Born June 7, 1926 · Arizona, USA (age 100)

Smoulderingly beautiful, soulful-eyed Hollywood glamour girl of the 1940s, nicknamed 'Peaches'. She grew up in Burbank, California, the daughter of a motion picture sound engineer, one of three siblings. Peaches graduated from high school and started out as model, participating in the local beauty pageant scene and advertising anything from bread to bathing suits. Like so many hopeful Hollywood as…

Known For

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Letter from an Unknown Woman · 1948

Letter from an Unknown Woman

MovieDramaRomance

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

The Return

The Return · 1980

MovieMysteryThriller

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.

Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home · 1947

Buck Privates Come Home

MovieComedyRomance

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Ma and Pa Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle · 1949

Ma and Pa Kettle

The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle.

The Web

The Web · 1947

MovieCrimeDrama

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

Time Out of Mind

Time Out of Mind · 1947

Time Out of Mind

The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.

Johnny Stool Pigeon

Johnny Stool Pigeon · 1949

Johnny Stool Pigeon

MovieCrimeDrama

A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.

Mexican Hayride

Mexican Hayride · 1948

Mexican Hayride

MovieComedyRomance

Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

Filmography

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Letter from an Unknown Woman

Letter from an Unknown Woman · 1948

Letter from an Unknown Woman

MovieDramaRomance

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

Pretty Girl (uncredited)

The Return

The Return · 1980

MovieMysteryThriller

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.

Townsperson

Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home · 1947

Buck Privates Come Home

MovieComedyRomance

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Young Girl (uncredited)

Ma and Pa Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle · 1949

Ma and Pa Kettle

The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle.

Secretary

The Web

The Web · 1947

MovieCrimeDrama

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

Secretary

Time Out of Mind

Time Out of Mind · 1947

Time Out of Mind

The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.

Miss Weber

Johnny Stool Pigeon

Johnny Stool Pigeon · 1949

Johnny Stool Pigeon

MovieCrimeDrama

A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.

McCandle's Secretary (uncredited)

Mexican Hayride

Mexican Hayride · 1948

Mexican Hayride

MovieComedyRomance

Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

Minor Role

Larceny

Larceny · 1948

MovieDramaCrime

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

Waitress

Night in Paradise

Night in Paradise · 1946

Night in Paradise

MovieComedyDrama

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

Palace Maiden

The Gal Who Took the West

The Gal Who Took the West · 1949

The Gal Who Took the West

In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.

Sue

Song of Scheherazade

Song of Scheherazade · 1947

Song of Scheherazade

MovieAdventureDrama

In 1865, the cadets of a Russian Naval Academy ship have shore leave in Morocco; among them is (fictionalized) future composer 'Nicky' Rimsky-Korsakov. In search of a piano, Nicky and singing ship's doctor Klin meet a family of once-wealthy Spanish colonists...and their daughter Cara who secretly dances in a cabaret. Romantic complications ensue, but Nicky seems less interested in Cara's favors than in inspirations for his future masterpieces.

Native Girl

Lover Come Back

Lover Come Back · 1946

Lover Come Back

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.

Receptionist

Something in the Wind

Something in the Wind · 1947

Something in the Wind

MovieComedyMusic

A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.

Fashion Show Model

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Yes Sir, That's My Baby · 1949

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.

Mrs. Tascarelli

Inside Job

Inside Job · 1946

MovieCrimeDrama

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

Office Girl

Tangier

Tangier · 1946

MovieAdventureDrama

In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.

Minor Role (as Pat Alphin)

Up in Central Park

Up in Central Park · 1948

Up in Central Park

A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.

Guest

Idea Girl

Idea Girl · 1946

Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger.

Messenger Girl

White Tie and Tails

White Tie and Tails · 1946

White Tie and Tails

When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.

Cynthia Bradford

The Mysterious Mr. M

The Mysterious Mr. M · 1946

The Mysterious Mr. M

MovieActionMystery

An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is dispatched to find the mysterious villain and stop his nefarious plans.

Ms. Buckley

I'll Be Yours

I'll Be Yours · 1947

MovieMusicComedy

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

Usherette