Patrick co-starred or was supporting actress in a series of Republic programmers. The studio was best known releasing Saturday matinee serials, westerns, mysteries and crime dramas. Republic films she made include "711 Ocean Drive" (1950) with Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru and Otto Kruger (caps with a slam-bang gun-chase scene at Hoover Dam); the "true life" crime drama "Lonely Heart Bandits" (1950) with John Eldredge; the genre western "Thunder Pass" (1954) with Dane Clark, John Carradine and Andy Devine, and a "Gringos go south-of-the-border" comedy, "Belle of Old Mexico" (1950).