She was not on the list.
BHS ‘44 alum and class VP and Hollywood actress Patricia “Peaches” Alphin, passed away on 3 February 2020. Peaches went on to marry fellow classmate and football captain Jack Moorman in 1949 and had two children.
She is survived by her daughter, 3 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Peaches loved her friends deeply and spoke with her BHS friends often up-to her death.
Services will be held at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills in late March. More details to come.
Patricia Cleora Alphin was born on 1927, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Harry Joshua Alphin and Bonnie Humphrey. Her father was a sound engineer, and due to his job the family moved to Los Angeles in 1929 where he started working for motion pictures studios. She had an younger sister, Harree Bonnie, born on March 10, 1931, and a younger brother, Harry Jr., born on August 27, 1935. Both of them were born in California.
Patricia grew up surrounded by movie people and wanted to become an actress from childhood. She attended and graduated from Burbank High School in 1944, and, as a true beauty, was active in the local pageant scene. In 1946 Patricia was crowned Queen of the Burbank Bethel of Job’s daughters.
As a Queen, Patricia had certain social obligations that she did with gusto:
Patricia Alphin Hostesses Tea Featuring the Easter theme In the table decorations, Patricia Alphin, honored queen of Burbank Jobs Daughters, hostessed a mother and daughter tea at her home, She was assisted by her mother, Mrs. Harry J. Alphin. At a tea table, beautifully appointed with a centerpiece of purple and white sweet peas, Diane Swagler. Nancy De Celle and Donna Bell poured. Approximately 100 attended the affair.
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.
Actress
Cybill Shepherd and Jan-Michael Vincent in The Return (1980)
The Return
3.7
Townsperson (as Pat Allphin)
1980
Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn, and John Russell in The Gal
Who Took the West (1949)
The Gal Who Took the West
6.2
Sue (uncredited)
1949
Charles Coburn, Gloria DeHaven, and Donald O'Connor in Yes
Sir, That's My Baby (1949)
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
7.1
Mrs. Tascarelli
1949
Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, and Howard Duff in Johnny Stool
Pigeon (1949)
Johnny Stool Pigeon
6.6
McCandle's Secretary (uncredited)
1949
Patricia Alphin, Monte Montague, Smokey Rogers, Deuce
Spriggins, Tex Williams, and Henry Wills in West of Laramie (1949)
West of Laramie
Short
Nancy Johnson
1949
Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Marjorie Main, and Meg Randall
in Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
Ma and Pa Kettle
6.7
Secretary
1949
Six-Gun Music
Short
Dr. Kit Clark
1949
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Grey, John Hubbard, and
Luba Malina in Mexican Hayride (1948)
Mexican Hayride
6.2
Minor Role (uncredited)
1948
Larceny (1948)
Larceny
6.9
Waitress
1948
Tex Williams & Orchestra in Western Whoopee
Short
Member, Corral Cuties (as Pat Alphin)
1948
Vincent Price, Deanna Durbin, and Dick Haymes in Up in
Central Park (1948)
Up in Central Park
6.0
Guest (uncredited)
1948
Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown
Woman (1948)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
7.9
Pretty (uncredited)
1948
Deanna Durbin, John Dall, and Donald O'Connor in Something
in the Wind (1947)
Something in the Wind
6.5
Fashion Show Model (uncredited)
1947
William Bendix, Vincent Price, Edmond O'Brien, and Ella
Raines in The Web (1947)
The Web
7.1
Secretary (uncredited)
1947
Phyllis Calvert and Robert Hutton in Time Out of Mind (1947)
Time Out of Mind
6.0
Miss Weber (uncredited)
1947
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Joan Shawlee in Buck Privates
Come Home (1947)
Buck Privates Come Home
6.8
Young Girl (uncredited)
1947
Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy, and
Phillip Reed in Song of Scheherazade (1947)
Song of Scheherazade
6.4
Native Girl (uncredited)
1947
William Bendix, Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, and Adolphe Menjou
in I'll Be Yours (1947)
I'll Be Yours
6.5
Usherette (uncredited)
1947
William Bendix, Dan Duryea, and Ella Raines in White Tie and
Tails (1946)
White Tie and Tails
7.2
Cynthia Bradford
1946
Richard Martin and Dennis Moore in The Mysterious Mr. M
(1946)
The Mysterious Mr. M
6.5
Ms. Buckley [Chs. 7, 9] (uncredited)
1946
Lucille Ball, George Brent, Charles Winninger, and Vera
Zorina in Lover Come Back (1946)
Lover Come Back
6.1
Receptionist (uncredited)
1946
Alan Curtis, Preston Foster, and Ann Rutherford in Inside
Job (1946)
Inside Job
5.6
Office Girl (uncredited)
1946
Turhan Bey and Merle Oberon in Night in Paradise (1946)
Night in Paradise
5.3
Palace Maiden (uncredited)
1946
Louise Allbritton, Preston Foster, Maria Montez, Robert
Paige, and Sabu in Tangier (1946)
Tangier
6.2
Minor Role
1946
Jess Barker, Julie Bishop, George Dolenz, and Alan Mowbray
in Idea Girl (1946)
Idea Girl
5.2
Messenger Girl (uncredited)
1946
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