Pat Starling

(Courtesy of Fabian Cepeda)

Above - Pat Starling circa early to mid 1940s.

Above - Pat Starling circa 1948 (crop from the group image shown below).

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Patricia/Pat Starling

Pat Starling appeared in about fifteen films during the 1940s. Her early work consisted of bit/minor roles, including four uncredited appearances in 1943-1944 films at Republic Pictures. In the late 1940s, she was the heroine/leading lady in five westerns:

With Jimmy Wakely in RAINBOW OVER THE ROCKIES (Monogram, 1947).
With Sunset Carson in SUNSET CARSON RIDES AGAIN (Yucca/Astor, 1948), FIGHTING MUSTANG (Yucca/Astor, 1948), DEADLINE (Yucca/Astor, 1948), and BATTLING MARSHAL (Yucca/Astor, 1950).

It's always interesting to click through excerpts of newspaper headlines and clippings at the Google news archives at: http://news.google.com/archivesearch
Be aware that most of the links provided in the Google news archive go to newspaper websites where you have to pay to retrieve the full article. Following are a few article headlines about Pat Starling:

Jul 5, 1942 - Brunette Wins Beauty Contest - A Florida product, 18-year-old Pat Starling, won a California beauty contest yesterday, capturing the title of Miss Victory in finals of a contest at ...
Oct 11, 1943 - Rogers has also optioned the young lady for seven years, her name being Pat Starling. She joins two other newcomers in the film, Peggy O'Neill and Jeanne ...
Oct 12, 1943 - Also at U. A., Charles R. Rogers has taken a seven-year option on the services of Pat Starling and has assigned her to an important role in his musical ...

The headlines referring to Rogers are about Charles R. Rogers and his film SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD (United Artists, 1944), which featured Jane Powell. And if Pat Starling was 18 in 1942, that would put her birth year around 1924.

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Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Pat Starling: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0823397/

(Courtesy of Boyd Magers)

Above are Sunset Carson and blonde Pat Starling in a lobby card from FIGHTING MUSTANG (Yucca/Astor, 1948). This was one of five oaters that Sunset did for Astor release several years after his Republic westerns. Pat Starling was the leading lady/heroine in four of the five.

(From Old Corral image collection)

Above in the top row, from L-to-R are B-western heavy/henchman Tex Terry, Pat Starling, William Boyd and Bob Nolan. Bottom row from L-to-R are Roy Rogers, a "Mrs. Peters" (who remains unknown/unidentified), and Spade Cooley. The photo is from the 'Western Hall of Fame Hoss Opera' at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles on November 28, 1948. It was organized by Tim Spencer (Sons of the Pioneers) and singer/songwriter Cindy Walker ("You Don't Know Me" and more, including nearly all of the Bob Wills songs in the Russ Hayden films).