Dorothy Comingore

Dorothy Comingore

Born: August 24, 1913
Died: December 30, 1971
in Los Angeles, California, USA
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Mary Louise Comingore, best known professionally as Dorothy Comingore (August 24, 1913 – December 30, 1971), was an American film actress. She is best known for starring as Susan Alexander Kane in Citizen Kane (1941), the critically acclaimed debut film of Orson Welles. In earlier films she was credited as Linda Winters, and she had appeared on the stage as Kay Winters. Her career ended when she was caught up in the Hollywood blacklist. She declined to answer questions when she was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952.

Movies for Dorothy Comingore...

The Big Night
Title: The Big Night
Character: Julie Rostina
Released: December 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.
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Any Number Can Play
Title: Any Number Can Play
Character: Mrs. Purcell
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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The Hairy Ape
Title: The Hairy Ape
Character: Helen Parker
Released: July 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Susan Alexander Kane
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Title: Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Character: Daisy (as Linda Winters)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
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The Heckler
Title: The Heckler
Character: Ole's Girlfriend
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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Pioneers of the Frontier
Title: Pioneers of the Frontier
Character: Joan Darcey
Released: February 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley. But before he can right Brawley's wrongs, Wild Bill is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Sidekick Cannonball Sims and disgruntled girl rancher Joan Darcy plot to break Wild Bill out of jail but Brawley is wise to their plan.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Character: Inmate (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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Cafe Hostess
Title: Cafe Hostess
Character: Tricks
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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The Awful Goof
Title: The Awful Goof
Character: Charley's Fiancee
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Woman at Station (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Marjorie Lawe (as Linda Winters)
Released: October 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
Title: Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
Character: June Jenkins (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard Fiske) pile of firewood, the boys come to the assistance of the Widow Jenkins (Eva McKenzie), who has just been cheated out of her land by a trio of swindlers (Dick Curtis, Eddie Laughton, James Craig). Attempting to fix the woman's well, the Stooges instead unleash an oil geyser. They manage to retrieve the deed to the land and are allowed to marry the now wealthy Widow Jenkins' daughters. Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets, and Curly replies, "We'll honeymoon in Canada!" (a reference to the Dionne quintuplets).
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Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Fight Spectator
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Character: Nurse
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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Coast Guard
Title: Coast Guard
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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North of the Yukon
Title: North of the Yukon
Character: Jean Duncan (as Linda Winters)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of Mountie whips. When the gang learns of this, they convince him to join them.
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Title: Blondie Meets the Boss
Character: Francine Rogers
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Ann (as Linda Winters)
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: Mrs. McDermott
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Prison Train
Title: Prison Train
Character: Louise Terris
Released: October 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.