Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the ’50s spanned comedies, dramas, adventure films and thrillers, has died.
She was 92. Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, passed away Saturday at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. She had been in declining health.
A petite, dark-haired beauty who launched her career in England in the 1930s, Medina was married to actor Richard Greene when she arrived in Hollywood.
Medina starred in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), Sangaree with Fernando Lamas (1953), Plunder of the Sun with Glenn Ford (1953), Botany Bay with Alan Ladd (1953) and Phantom of the Rue Morgue with Karl Malden (1954).
She also played opposite Louis Hayward in the ’50s adventure films Fortunes of Captain Blood, The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask and Captain Pirate.
Medina and Greene were divorced in 1951. In 1960, she wed the widowed Cotten, who had made his feature film debut in Welles’ 1941 classic Citizen Kane.
They appeared in a number of stage productions together. Medina made her Broadway debut in 1962 in Calculated Risk, starring Cotten, who died in 1994.