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Dorothy Comingore
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(Directed by Orson Welles; with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane) Orson Welles' timeless masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's 1998 list of Best American Movies) is more than a groundbreaking film. It is ... grand entertainment, sharply acted (starring many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and superbly directed with inspired visual flair. Depicting the controversial life of an influential publishing tycoon, it is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity--the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last world: "Rosebud."
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Dorothy Comingore is quite remarkable as Susan. When she smiles at Kane in her parlor, she is very beautiful. When she is forced by Kane to perform publicly, she is excruciatingly miserable and petrified. When she finally unleashes her verbal attacks on Kane, she is a haradon. When she is interviewed by the reporter, she is tired, broken and sad.
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From All Movie Guide: After playing Susan Alexander, a key role in Orson Welle's magnum opus Citizen Kane, it seemed that American actress Dorothy Comingore was destined to finally become a star. Although her performance won considerable acclaim, Comingore only made three more films. Before the film, she had worked in stock theater and during the 1930s, appeared in many Columbia comedy shorts billed as Linda Winters. She ... worked with The Three Stooges, played leads in a few cheap westerns, and had several bit parts. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Thompson approaches Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore), who refuses to tell him anything. Thompson then goes to the library of Walter Parks Thatcher (George Coulouris), a banker who served as Kane's guardian during his childhood. It is there that Thompson learns about Kane's childhood. In the first flashback, Kane as a young child is forced to leave his beloved mother (Agnes Moorehead) when he becomes suddenly wealthy, and is sent to live with Mr. Thatcher, despite the misgivings of Kane's abusive father.
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