Patricia Alphin
Actor · b. 1926 · Arizona, USA
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 aspirants, Peaches had ambitions of becoming a movie star from early childhood. Through her dad she was able to 'get in on the ground floor': as a messenger in the mailroom at Universal-International. There, she was purportedly 'discovered' and promptly signed under contract in 1946 to be groomed as a starlet. However, despite her stunning looks, genuine stardom was to elude Peaches. Most of her tenure in films was spent in (primarily decorative) 'no-name' roles or uncredited bit parts. In 1949, she married Jack Moorman, a former classmate and football player, settled in Granada Hills and raised two children. She divorced Moorman in the mid-70s. As 'Peaches Moorman', she moved to Oregon in 2006 where she devoted her remaining years to dance recitals, art and history.
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Movie7.8DramaRomanceA 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.
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · 351 votes
Movie6.4ComedyRomanceTwo 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.
Buck Privates Come Home
1947 · 32 votes
Movie6.0WesternIn order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
The Gal Who Took the West
1949 · 12 votes
Movie7.2ComedyThe 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.
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949 · 22 votes
Movie5.9MysteryThrillerTwo 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.
The Return
1980 · 133 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicA grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
Something in the Wind
1947 · 9 votes
Movie6.0ComedyAt a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949 · 2 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaA federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949 · 17 votes
Movie5.9CrimeDramaA 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.
Inside Job
1946 · 8 votes
Movie5.6DramaThe son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Time Out of Mind
1947 · 8 votes
Movie5.2ActionMysteryAn 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.
The Mysterious Mr. M
1946 · 3 votes
Movie6.4MusicA newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
Up in Central Park
1948 · 7 votes
Movie7.3ComedyWhen his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.
White Tie and Tails
1946 · 3 votes
Movie7.1CrimeDramaA 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.
The Web
1947 · 48 votes
Movie6.2MusicComedyA small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
I'll Be Yours
1947 · 5 votes
Movie5.9DramaCrimeRick 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.
Larceny
1948 · 17 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaAesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
Night in Paradise
1946 · 2 votes
Movie6.1ComedyRomanceTwo 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.
Mexican Hayride
1948 · 15 votes
Movie6.6AdventureDramaIn 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.
Song of Scheherazade
1947 · 5 votes
Movie7.1ComedyA wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Lover Come Back
1946 · 4 votes
Movie6.5AdventureDramaIn Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.
Tangier
1946 · 10 votes
Movie8.0ComedyLarry 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.
Idea Girl
1946 · 1 votes