LOS ANGELES — Neva Patterson, a character actress who portrayed Cary Grant’s fiancee in the 1957 movie “An Affair to Remember” in a career that spanned six decades and more than 100 film and TV roles, has died. She was 90.

Patterson died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles of complications from a broken hip, said her daughter, Megan Lee.

The actress was a veteran of Broadway when she was cast as Lois, the socialite who would not make it to the altar with Grant in “An Affair to Remember.”

“She just loved the fact that she kissed Cary Grant the first day on the set,” her daughter said. “She really loved Cary Grant.”

The characters she played were often “brittle, overwrought ladies, notoriously glamorous, usually business-oriented, and more often than not, quite overbearing,” according to an Internet Movie Database description that her family seconded.

After making her film debut in “Taxi” (1953), Patterson appeared in more than a dozen movies.

She played a worried mother in the well-reviewed “David and Lisa,” a 1962 film about two teens with mental illness who fall in love. In the 1957 movie “Desk Set,” she portrayed Spencer Tracy’s prim, uptight computer expert.