With her lush good looks and classy yet impassioned demeanor, Medina was usually typecast in period melodrama, generally second features or middling "A" budget fare, but including enjoyable films like "The Lady in the Iron Mask" (1952) and "The Black Knight" (1954). Two standouts, though, were William Witney's gem of a B-Western, "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. Having married and divorced handsome British-born 40s lead Richard Greene (TV's "Robin Hood"), Medina wed actor Joseph Cotten in 1960. The two enjoyed success onstage in the 60s in "Calculated Risk" and she later traveled with him as he kept busy acting. She later returned to the screen in Robert Aldrich's adaptation of the lesbian-themed drama "The Killing of Sister George" in 1968.