Patricia Medina, Famous 50s Film Actress, Dies at 92

Hollywood has lost yet another of its 50s film legends.

Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose career boomed in the 1950s with memorable roles in William Witney’s Stranger at My Door and Orson Welles’ Mr. Arkadin, died Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 92.

A close friend of Medina revealed the actresses health had been slowly deteriorating over the past year, according to the LA Times.

Medina, who also happened to be the widow of the late Citizen Kane actor Joseph Cotten, kicked off her film career following World War II and was first signed to MGM.

Over the course of her career, Medina starred alongside some of the biggest names from Hollywood’s Golden Era, including Fernando Lamas in “Sangaree” in 1953, Glen Ford in “Plunder of the Sun” in 1953, Alan Ladd in “Botany Bay” in 1953 and “Phantom of the Rue Morgue” with Karl Malden in 1954.

In addition to film, Medina her husband toured together in several plays and on Broadway in the murder mystery Calculated Risk. Cotten died of complications of throat cancer in February 1994.

They were “blissfully devoted to one another,” United Press International Hollywood reporter Vernon Scott wrote of Medina and Cotten in 2000. “At myriad parties and industry events they were inseparable, among the most popular couples in town. They represented stability in this socially unstable community.”

The Chicago Tribune writes that later in her career, Medina found a niche for herself on American television, making appearances on “The Ford Television Theater,” “G.E. True Theater,” “Perry Mason” and the TV series adaptation of “The Third Man.” She also recurred on “Zorro.”

In 1998, Patricia Medina penned an autobiography titled Laid Back in Hollywood, which is no longer in print.

Medina had no immediate survivors the LA Times reported.