Birthday:
08-24-1913
Deathday:
12-30-1971 (58 years)
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
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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.
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.
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Citizen Kane
Act like Susan Alexander Kane
event1941 star_border 8
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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.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Woman at Station (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Blondie Meets the Boss
Act like Francine Rogers
event1939 star_border 5.8
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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.
The Big Night
Act like Julie Rostina
event1951 star_border 6.9
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A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.
The Awful Goof
Act like Charley's Fiancee
event1939
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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.
Any Number Can Play
Act like Mrs. Purcell
event1949 star_border 6.9
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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.
Outside These Walls
Act like Secretary (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.5
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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.
The Hairy Ape
Act like Helen Parker
event1944 star_border 5.5
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Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Act like Daisy (as Linda Winters)
event1940 star_border 6.1
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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.
Scandal Sheet
Act like Marjorie Lawe (as Linda Winters)
event1939
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The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
Act like June Jenkins (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.4
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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).
Trade Winds
Act like Ann (as Linda Winters)
event1938 star_border 6.3
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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.
Good Girls Go to Paris
Act like Tearoom Hostess (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.1
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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.
Golden Boy
Act like Fight Spectator
event1939 star_border 6.4
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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 buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Coast Guard
Act like Nurse (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5
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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.
Comet Over Broadway
Act like Mrs. McDermott
event1938 star_border 5
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Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
The Heckler
Act like Ole's Girlfriend
event1940 star_border 5
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An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Pioneers of the Frontier
Act like Joan Darcey
event1940
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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.
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Act like Nurse
event1939 star_border 6.2
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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.
North of the Yukon
Act like Jean Duncan (as Linda Winters)
event1939
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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.
Cafe Hostess
Act like Tricks
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Convicted Woman
Act like Inmate (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 3.7
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A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Prison Train
Act like Louise Terris
event1938 star_border 6
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Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.
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