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Dorothy Comingore (born Margaret Louise Comingore) (August 24, 1913 – December 30, 1971) was an American
United States

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 film actress, best known for her portrayal of Susan Alexander in Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
's critically acclaimed movie Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
 (1941
1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
). From 1934 to 1940, Comingore was billed in her film appearances as Kay Winters and then Linda Winters.

Born in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

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, she was discovered by Charles Chaplin while she was performing in a small playhouse.






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Dorothy Comingore (born Margaret Louise Comingore) (August 24, 1913 – December 30, 1971) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film actress, best known for her portrayal of Susan Alexander in Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
's critically acclaimed movie Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
 (1941
1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
). From 1934 to 1940, Comingore was billed in her film appearances as Kay Winters and then Linda Winters.

Born in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern 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
Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola....
 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
Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of Realism , associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg....
 play The Hairy Ape
The Hairy Ape

The Hairy Ape is an expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill ....
 (1944
1944 in film

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
) with William Bendix
William Bendix

William Bendix was an United States film actor.Bendix, named for his paternal grandfather, was born in Manhattan, New York City, the only son of Cleveland-born Oscar and London-born Hilda Bendix....
, Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 in the hope of playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ....
, and John Loder
John Loder (actor)

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.

Her career ended in 1951, when she was caught up in the Hollywood blacklist
Hollywood blacklist

The Hollywood blacklist?more precisely the entertainment industry blacklist, into which it expanded?was the mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S....
 after being called to appear before HUAC about her alleged Communist connections. She was married to screenwriters Richard J. 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. Her last movie appearance was in a suppporting role in The Big Night
The Big Night

The Big Night is a 1951 black-and-white film drama starring John Drew Barrymore . The film, directed by Joseph Losey, is considered to be film noir....
 (1951) starring John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore

John Drew Barrymore, born John Blyth Barrymore, Jr. , was a member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore....
.

She struggled with alcoholism during her later life, and died from a pulmonary disease
Pulmonology

File:Lungs_open.jpgIn medicine, pulmonology is the specialty that deals with diseases of the lungs and the respiratory tract. It is called chest medicine and respiratory medicine in some countries and areas....
 in Stonington, Connecticut
Stonington, Connecticut

The New England town of Stonington is in New London County, Connecticut, Connecticut in the southeastern corner of that U.S. state. It includes the borough of Stonington , Connecticut, the villages of Pawcatuck, Connecticut, Quiambaug, Lords Point, Wequetequock, the eastern half of the village of Mystic, Connecticut , and Old Mystic....
, at the age of 58.

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