Patricia Medina

Patricia Medina
with Glenn Ford (1953)
Born	Patricia Paz Maria Medina 19 July 1920 (age 89) Liverpool, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Richard Greene (1941–1951) Joseph Cotten (1960–1994)

Patricia Paz Maria Medina (born 19 July 1920) ^[1] is an English actress, born in Liverpool, England to a Spanish father and English mother. She began acting as a teenager late in the 1930s. She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, whereupon she was requested to come to Hollywood.

Career

Medina's most notable films are The Three Musketeers, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Francis, Fortunes of Captain Blood.

In Fortunes of Captain Blood she up with the British and dashing Louis Hayward, with whom she successfully co-starred in a total of four films, including The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask and Captain Pirate.

Darkly beautiful, Medina was often typecast in period melodrama films such as The Black Knight. Two standouts, though, were William Witney's Stranger at My Door, and Orson Welles' companion piece to Citizen Kane, Mr. Arkadin, a follow-up to The Third Man, based on the radio series The Lives of Harry Lime (1951-1952).

She was prolific during the 1950s but her film career petered out at the end of the decade. She later returned to the screen in Robert Aldrich's adaptation of the lesbian-themed drama, The Killing of Sister George in 1968. ^[2]

She and her husband, actor Joseph Cotten, starred together on tour in several plays, and on Broadway, in the murder mystery Calculated Risk. Her appearances on television include an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour entitled "See the Monkey Dance" (original air date November 9, 1964).

Autobiography

In 1998, Patricia Medina Cotten published an autobiography, Laid Back in Hollywood: Remembering.

Personal

Medina married the actor Richard Greene on 24 December 1941 in St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, London; they were divorced in 1951.^[3]

Medina later married the actor Joseph Cotten on 20 October 1960 in Beverly Hills at the home of David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones.^[4][5]

Partial filmography

Siren of Bagdad (1953) with Hans Conried and Paul Henreid

• Hotel Reserve (1944)
• The Secret Heart (1946)
• The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
• The Three Musketeers (1948)
• The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)
• Children of Chance (1949)
• Francis (1950)
• Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
• The Jackpot (1950)
• Valentino (1951)
• Botany Bay (1953)
• Sangaree (1953)
• Plunder of the Sun (1953)
• Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
• The Black Knight (1954)
• Mr. Arkadin (1955)
• The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
• Battle of the V-1 (1958)
• Count Your Blessings (1959)
• Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)
• The Killing of Sister George (1968)
• Latitude Zero (1969)

References

External links

• Patricia Medina at the Internet Movie Database
• Photograph

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