Alice Mayrine Backes (May 17, 1923 â€" March 15, 2007) was an American
actress who performed on radio, television, and in films from the
1940s to the 1990s. Standing 5'9", she worked chiefly on television
during her long career. She appeared in over 80 television series and
made-for-television movies, specializing in character roles and
dialects for scripts.Alice Mayrine Backes was born in 1923 in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the first daughter of Charles Cameron Backes and Lela
Mayrine (née Maxwell) Backes, both natives of Montana. According to
the United States Census of 1940, seventeen-year-old Alice was still
living that year with her parents in Salt Lake City, along with her
two sisters, Lorraine and Virginia. The 1940 census further documents
that her father was at that time a salesman of rock-wool insulation.In
Salt Lake City, Backes also attended the University of Utah, where she
distinguished herself as a gifted violinist, earning a position as
"concert mistress" in the university's symphony orchestra. After the
attack on Pearl Harbor, she joined the WAVES, the women's branch of
the United States Naval Reserve. She served stateside at WAVE "shore
stations" working primarily as a jeep driver in and around Chicago and
then San Francisco.Following the war, Backes moved to Hollywood, where
by the late 1940s she began finding steady employment as an actor. In
1948 she performed in an uncredited role as a Swedish immigrant girl
in the film Up in Central Park. The bulk of her work, however, in this
early stage of her career was as a voice-actor on radio. Between 1946
and 1950, she was a cast member on a variety of popular radio programs
such as This is Your FBI, NBC University Theater, Dangerous
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