Dorothy Comingore

Dorothy Comingore
Born	Margaret Louise Comingore August 24, 1913(1913-08-24) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	December 30, 1971 (aged 58) Stonington, Connecticut, U.S.
Other name(s)	Kay Winters Linda Winters
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1934–1952
Spouse(s)	Richard Collins (1939–1945) 2 children Theodore Strauss (1945–1952) 1 child John Crowe (1958–1971)

Dorothy 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 stage appearances as Kay Winters and then Linda Winters as a film actress.

Born Margaret Louise Comingore 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 J. Collins (b. 1914) and Theodore Strauss (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 supporting role in The Big Night (1951) starring John Drew Barrymore.

She struggled with alcoholism during her later life, and died from a pulmonary disease in Stonington, Connecticut, at the age of 58.

External links

• Dorothy Comingore at the Internet Movie Database
• Dorothy Comingore at Allmovie
• Dorothy Comingore at Find A Grave

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