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Patricia Paz Maria Medina (19 July 1920 - ) is an English actress of middle-class parents. She began acting late in the 1930s and worked her way up to leads in the mid-1940s, whereupon she was promptly summoned to Hollywood. Born in Liverpool, England, Medina owed her then-considered "exotic" looks to her Spanish father and her British demeanor to her English mother.
She married the actor Richard Greene on 24 December 1941 in St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, London. They divorced in 1951.
Medina married the actor Joseph Cotten on 20 October 1960 in Beverly Hills at the home of David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones.
Medina`s most notable films are The Three Musketeers (1948), Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), Francis (1950), Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950).
In Fortunes of Captain Blood she up with the British and dashing Louis Hayward, with whom she would successfully co-star in a total of four films, including The Lady and the Bandit (1951), Lady in the Iron Mask (1952) and Captain Pirate (1952).
Medina was usually typecast in period melodrama in films like The Black Knight (1954). Two standouts, though, were William Witney`s Stranger at My Door (1956), and Orson Welles` bizarre companion piece to Citizen Kane, Mr. Arkadin (1955).
She was quite prolific during the 1950s but her film career largely 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.
She and her husband Joseph Cotten starred together on tour in several plays, and on Broadway, in the murder mystery Calculated Risk (1962).
Medina`s appearances on television include an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour entitled "See the Monkey Dance" (original air date November 9, 1964), in which she traded lines with Roddy McDowall and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
In 1998 Patricia Medina Cotten published an autobiography entitled Laid Back in Hollywood: Remembering.
Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Medina
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The lovely beauty`s acting strength was hardly ever tested, stuck mostly in high-flying adventures as assorted feisty love interests and damsels to rescue.
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