Dorothy Comingore: Kane, Communism, and Comedy Shorts by Trav S.D.

Career's end for actress Dorothy Comingore (1913-1971) is easy to predict once you know the inputs. Having played the part of Susan Alexander in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), the role most calculated to infuriate William Randolph Hearst as it seemed to ridicule Marion Davies, she fell victim to a campaign to destroy her, exploiting […]

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