Dorothy Comingore

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Dorothy Comingore (* 24. August 1913 in Los Angeles , California as Margaret Louise Comingore ; † 30th December 1971 in Stonington , Connecticut ) was an American actress. She also performed under the stage names Kay Winters and Linda Winters .

Career

Dorothy Comingore was discovered by film legend Charlie Chaplin while she was acting as an actress in a small theater in Monterey County . Chaplin also made sure that she received a studio contract with Warner Brothers ; but the actual actress was only given tasks as a clothing and photo model. After this disappointment, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1938 , but her film roles remained insignificant and she did not make the breakthrough. When she met director Orson Welles at a party, however, this was to be the turning point of her career: he cast her in his legendary film Citizen Kane (1941) as Susan Alexander Kane, the second wife of the title character. Comingore received good reviews for the role of the untalented and insecure singer who later turns into an alcoholic.

Then she was traded for bigger roles and was considered by many as a future film star, but she should only make three films after Citizen Kane and no longer be able to build on this success. On the one hand, Comingore turned down many film roles and suffered from health problems; on the other hand, media mogul William Randolph Hearst saw his lover Marion Davies disparaged through the portrayal of Susan Alexander Kane - a figure based on Davis - and caused bad press about comingore. Her last of a total of 24 films she made in 1951. She then tried her hand at television, but after she was falsely accused of being a Communist by the Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 , she gave up her acting career.

Dorothy Comingore was married to producer Richard J. Collins from 1939 to 1945 and to screenwriter Theodore Strauss from 1945 to 1952. Both marriages ended in divorce. In 1958 she married John Crowe, with whom she remained married until her death. She had three children. Comingore was considered an alcoholic in her later life and died in 1971 at the age of 58 of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothy Comingore at the New York Times

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Comingore, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comingore, Margaret Louise (real name); Winters, Kay (pseudonym); Winters, Linda (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1971
Place of death Stonington