Dorothy Comingore
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| Dorothy Comingore | |
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| Born | Margaret Louise Comingore August 24, 1913 Los Angeles, California |
| Died | December 30, 1971 (aged 58) Stonington, Connecticut |
Dorothy Comingore born Margaret Louise Comingore (August 24, 1913 – December 30, 1971) was an American film actress, best known for her portrayal of Susan Alexander in Orson Welles's critically acclaimed movie Citizen Kane (1941). From 1934 to 1940, Comingore was billed in her film appearances as Kay Winters and then Linda Winters.
Born in Los Angeles, California, she was discovered by Charles Chaplin while she was performing in a small playhouse. She went on to play bit parts in Hollywood movies until Welles cast her as Susan, the fragile but fiery mistress of press tycoon Charles Foster Kane.
Her performance is generally considered one of the best in the movie, but, according to Peter Bogdanovich in his DVD commentary on Citizen Kane, she crippled her subsequent career by turning down too many roles that she felt were uninteresting. She appeared in the film version of the Eugene O'Neill play The Hairy Ape (1944) with William Bendix, Susan Hayward, and John Loder.
Her career ended in 1951, when she was caught up in the Hollywood blacklist after being called to appear before HUAC about her alleged Communist connections. She was married to screenwriters Richard Collins (b. 1914) and Theodore Straus (1912-1989), and was married to John Crowe, who was not in the movie business, from 1958 to her death in 1971.
She struggled with alcoholism during her later life, and died from a pulmonary disease in Stonington, Connecticut, at the age of 58.
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