Editing Richard Greene (section)

===Return to Hollywood===
After the war Greene starred in a British musical, distributed by Warners, ''[[Gaiety George]]'' (1946), which was a flop. He returned to Hollywood, and appeared in Fox's big budget ''[[Forever Amber (film)|Forever Amber]]'' (1947), but in support of [[Cornel Wilde]]. He went to Universal to play the villain in ''[[The Fighting O'Flynn]]'' (1948) with [[Douglas Fairbanks Jr]]. At Fox he was third billed in ''[[The Fan (1949 film)|The Fan]]'' (1949), based on the play ''[[Lady Windermere's Fan]]''.

Greene returned to England to appear in ''[[That Dangerous Age]]'' (1949) and ''[[Now Barabbas]]'' (1949). He went back to Universal in Hollywood to play the hero in a [[Yvonne de Carlo]] eastern, ''[[The Desert Hawk (1950 film)|The Desert Hawk]]'' (1950).<ref>{{cite news |last=Brady |first= Thomas F |date=25 January 1950 |title=Metro Planning New War Picture|page = 20 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Director de Cordova said Greene was "everything a man or woman could want in a desert hero."<ref>{{cite news |date= 15 August 1950|title=Movieland Briefs |page = A7 |newspaper= Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

In Britain he was in ''[[My Daughter Joy]]'' (1950), and ''[[Shadow of the Eagle (1950 film)|Shadow of the Eagle]]'' (1950). He went to Italy to make ''[[The Rival of the Empress]]'' (1951). In 1951, he divorced his wife, [[Patricia Medina]], whom he had married in 1941.

In Hollywood [[Edward Small]] asked him to play the male hero of ''[[Lorna Doone (1951 film)|Lorna Doone]]'' (1951). He stayed on to star in ''[[The Black Castle]]'' (1952) and support [[Peter Lawford]] in ''[[Rogue's March (film)|Rogue's March]]'' (1952). For Small he made ''[[The Bandits of Corsica]]'' (1953), then he was in another swashbuckler, ''[[Captain Scarlett]]'' (1953) shot in Mexico.