1. Patricia Medina is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Phantom of the Rue Morgue and Mr Arkadin.
10 Facts About Patricia Medina
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Patricia Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s, and worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, when she left London for Hollywood.
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Patricia Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight.
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Patricia Medina was then cast in an episode of Darren McGavin's NBC Western series, Riverboat.
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Patricia Medina guest starred as Ruthanne Harper in "Incident of the Boomerang" in 1961 and Ilona Calvin in "Incident at Jacob's Well" in 1959, on Rawhide.
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Patricia Medina guest-starred in the Branded episode "Yellow for Courage" in 1966 and the Burke's Law episode "Don Pablo" in 1964.
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Patricia Medina married British actor Richard Greene on 24 December 1941, in St James's Church, Spanish Place, London; they divorced in 1951.
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Patricia Medina married Joseph Cotten on 20 October 1960, in Beverly Hills at the home of David O Selznick and Jennifer Jones.
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Patricia Medina died at age 92 on 28 April 2012, from natural causes at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles, California.
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Patricia Medina was interred at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia, beside the remains of her husband, Cotten.