"() in 1970.Her second screen appearance was in the 1971 Lewis Gilbert film "Friends" which would remain her sole claim to international fame becoming a worldwide hit, although most likely not due to Alvina's distantly shot full-frontal nudity - the seventeen-year-old actress was playing a fourteen-year-old character – and the Elton John/Bernie Taupin soundtrack; Alvina also starred in the 1974 "Friends" sequel "Paul and Michelle," which was not a success.