Patricia Medina

Patricia Paz María Medina19 July 1919April 28 2012 was an English actress born in Liverpool England to a Spanish father Ramón Medina Nebot from Canary Islands and English mother She began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid1940s where upon she left for Hollywood In 1950s Fortunes of Captain Blood she teamed with British actor Louis Hayward They subsequently appeared together in 1951s The Lady and the Bandit Lady in the Iron Mask and Captain Pirate from 1952 Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight Two of her films were William Witneys Stranger at My Door and Orson Welles Mr Arkadin based on episodes of the radio series The Adventures of Harry Lime itself derived from The Third Man film Medina married British actor Richard Greene on 24 December 1941 in St Jamess Church Spanish Place London they divorced in 1951 Medina married Joseph Cotten on 20 October 1960 in Beverly Hills at the home of David O Selznick and Jennifer Jones Cotten and she bought an historic 1935 home in the Mesa neighborhood of Palm Springs California where they lived from 1985 to 1992 No children were born from either marriage Medina died at age 92 on 28 April 2012 from natural causes at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles California She was interred at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg Virginia beside the remains of her husband Cotten