{{short description|American actress (1913–1971)}} {{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Dorothy Comingore | image = Dorothy-Comingore-1941.jpg | image_size = | caption = Dorothy Comingore in 1941 | birth_name = Margaret Louise Comingore | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|8|24|mf=y}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1971|12|30|1913|8|24}} | death_place = Stonington, Connecticut, U.S. | other_names = Kay Winters<br>Linda Winters | years_active = 1938–1952 | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{marriage|Robert Meltzer|1937|end=div}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Dorothy Meltzer Family History {{&}} Historical Records |publisher=MyHeritage |url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/dorothy_meltzer}}</ref><br>{{marriage|Richard J. Collins|1939|1946|end=div}}<br>{{marriage|Theodore Strauss|1947|1952|end=div}}<br>{{marriage|John Crowe|1962}} | children = 3 }} '''Margaret Louise Comingore''' (August 24, 1913 – December 30, 1971), known professionally as '''Dorothy Comingore''', was an American stage and film actress. When starting out in minor film roles, she was billed as '''Linda Winters'''. Before that, she appeared on stage and on radio as '''Kay Winters'''. Her breakthrough as an actress came when she starred as Susan Alexander Kane in ''Citizen Kane'' (1941), the critically acclaimed debut film of Orson Welles. However, her acting career was ended prematurely in 1951 by the Hollywood blacklist. The following year she refused to answer questions or "name names" when called before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
==Early years== Margaret Louise Comingore was born in Los Angeles, but spent most of her childhood in Oakland, California.<ref name=happy_place/> In one of her first mentions in a newspaper, she was described as "a one-time Oakland school girl."<ref name=ot042938>{{cite news |last1=Othman |first1=Frederick C. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune/4052145/ |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |date=April 29, 1938 |page=36 |via = Newspapers.com |accessdate = January 16, 2016 |title=Ex-Oakland Girl Denies She's Chaplin Protege}} {{Open access}}</ref> Her father William Paxton Comingore was an electrotyper. He was also a union organizer, which influenced her political education.<ref name=happy_place/><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Beach |first=Randall |date=23 March 2022 |url=https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticutmagazine/article/The-son-of-a-tragic-Hollywood-actress-wants-to-17046897.php |magazine=Connecticut Magazine |title=The son of a tragic Hollywood actress wants to tell her story |publisher=CT Insider}} In her HUAC testimony, Comingore cited the influence her mother had on her political beliefs: "[M]y philosophy taught me by my mother is based on compassion for all of the people struggling to live in dignity."</ref> Her older sister Lucille operated a San Francisco nightclub.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Knave |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |date=May 12, 1938 |page=9 |via = Newspapers.com |accessdate = January 16, 2016 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune/4052236/ }} {{Open access}}</ref> Comingore attended the University of California, Berkeley where she studied philosophy.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Coons |first1=Robbin |title=Acting Once Cantalouped as Kay Winters Received Prize |location=San Bernardino, California |date=June 26, 1938 |page=7 |newspaper=The San Bernardino County Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun/4052532/ |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 16, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref>
==Film career== She lived for a while in Taos, New Mexico, and then returned to California to work in the theater.<ref name=happy_place/> In March 1938, she was noticed by Charles Chaplin in Carmel, California, when she was acting in a small playhouse alongside her love interest (and probable husband) at the time, Robert Meltzer.<ref name=Ranger_article>{{cite web |title=Ranger Robert Meltzer |url=https://wwiirangers.org/our-rangers/robert-meltzer/ |publisher=The Descendants of World War II Rangers |quote=His girlfriend was Dorothy Comingore and [they] may have been briefly married but no documents found to document it.}}</ref><ref name=WS_postscripts>{{cite news |title=Postscripts: Early lover of Dorothy Comingore died in the war in '44 ... 'but still he matters' |newspaper=The Westerly Sun |last=Slosberg |first=Steven |date=3 June 2024 |url=https://www.thewesterlysun.com/postscripts-early-lover-of-dorothy-comingore-died-in-the-war-in-44-but-still-he/article_b2de318c-195b-11ea-a83c-c3f4c275078d.html |quote=Meltzer met Comingore when they were both students at Berkeley, where he was an activist and became editor of the campus humor magazine, the 'California Pelican.' Among his contributions...was signing off on several pages of socialist artwork, which caused unrest on the campus, as well editorializing against bigotry in America.}}</ref> Chaplin was impressed with both of them and urged them to relocate to Hollywood.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sens |first=Josh |title=Robert Meltzer Died Fighting Fascism. Then He Was Blacklisted. |magazine=California Magazine |publisher=Cal Alumni Association |date=November 20, 2019 |url=https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/online/robert-meltzer-died-fighting-fascism-then-he-was-blacklisted/}}</ref> Whether Chaplin played a significant role in Comingore's subsequent film career is questionable. In an April 1938 profile in the ''Oakland Tribune'', she denied being his protégé and indicated that press reports had exaggerated the limited contact she had with him and one of his assistants, Tim Durant.<ref name=ot042938/>
However, the encounter with Chaplin did stimulate her interest in film acting. Through a friend at the Carmel theater, she obtained a Hollywood agent who got her a screen test, and from there she secured a contract with Warner Bros. Initially, she played mostly bit parts, sometimes uncredited, in a series of "B movies" until Orson Welles cast her as Susan Alexander, the second wife of press tycoon Charles Foster Kane, in his debut feature film ''Citizen Kane'' (1941). By now she had switched from "Linda Winters" to her original surname "Dorothy Comingore".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lowrance |first1=Dee |title=Lady Luck: Movieland's Best Talent Scout |newspaper=The San Bernardino County Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun/4052098/ |date=July 19, 1942 |page=24 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 16, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref> Her performance garnered glowing reviews. The ''Los Angeles Times'' singled out Comingore as "an important acquisition for pictures".<ref name="schallert19410509">{{Cite news |last=Schallert |first=Edwin |date=1941-05-09 |title=Welles' 'Citizen Kane' Revolutionary Film |language=en |pages=18 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380773599/ |access-date=2023-04-11}}</ref> ''The Hollywood Reporter'' wrote that she "is put through a range of emotions that would try any actress one could name, but she delivers without a second's let-down. ''Citizen Kane'' should make this girl a star."<ref>{{cite web |title='Citizen Kane': THR's 1941 Review |website=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/citizen-kane-review-1941-movie-998891/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |date=May 1, 2017}}</ref> {{multiple image <!-- Essential parameters --> | align = right | direction = vertical | width = 260 <!-- Image 1 --> | image1 = Citizen Kane-Dorothy Comingore.JPG | alt1 = | caption1 = Dorothy Comingore on the set of ''Citizen Kane'' in the trailer for the film (1940) <!-- Image 2 --> | image2 =Citizen-Kane-Collins-Welles.jpg | alt2 = | caption2 = Ray Collins, Dorothy Comingore, Orson Welles and Ruth Warrick in ''Citizen Kane'' <!-- Image 3 --> | image3 =Citizen-Kane-Comingore-Welles-Collins.jpg | alt3 = | caption3 = Dorothy Comingore, Orson Welles and Ray Collins in ''Citizen Kane'' }} In demand from other studios but denied loanouts by her new studio employer, RKO Pictures, Comingore fell ill, was ordered to go on bed rest, was suspended by RKO, and found no suitable work on her return. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers had meanwhile damaged her reputation by claiming she possessed Communist leanings. She ended up on a government watch list for "distributing Communist literature to negroes."<ref name=Sharp_article/> She had also canvassed door-to-door for actor and State Assembly hopeful Albert Dekker; worked with musician Lead Belly and singer Paul Robeson to desegregate whites-only USO clubs; signed on as a co-sponsor of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee;<ref>{{cite web |title=The Sleepy Lagoon case: with a foreword by Orson Welles |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb7779p4zc&brand=oac4&doc.view=entire_text |date=June 1943}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist |last1=McGilligan |first1=Patrick |last2=Buhle |first2=Paul |year=1997 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |chapter=Betsy Blair Reisz |pages=544–545n |isbn=0-312-17046-7}}</ref> and promoted "union solidarity". A few years later, when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) gained ascendancy, and the FBI had amassed a "thick" file on her political activities, she became a target.<ref name=Sharp_article/>
Kathleen Sharp wrote that as a consequence of ''Citizen Kane'', the actress "also had acquired a powerful enemy – the 78-year-old Hearst. The media mogul so hated Dorothy's portrayal of his mistress, 44-year-old Marion Davies, that he used his chain of newspapers and radio stations to smear the young woman. Hearst's columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell publicly accused Dorothy of belonging to the 'Party', in this case the Communist Party, and borrowed Orwellian 'newspeak' to malign her."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharp |first=Kathleen |date=2013-10-12 |title=Living the Orwellian Life |url=https://truthout.org/articles/living-the-orwellian-life/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}</ref>
Comingore's supposed CPUSA connections harmed her in the highly publicized legal battle she waged against her ex-husband, screenwriter Richard J. Collins, for custody of their son and daughter.<ref name=awn/> A former CPUSA member, Collins volunteered to testify before the HUAC and named over twenty colleagues as Communists.<ref name="LAT Collins Obit"/><ref name=Comingore_monument>{{cite web |url=https://www.wellesnet.com/dorothy-comingore-monument/ |title=Dorothy Comingore fans seek memorial to 'Citizen Kane' actress |publisher=Wellesnet |date=10 December 2021}}</ref> As a result of his cooperative testimony, and because Comingore was accused of being an unfit mother,<ref>{{cite book |title=Naming Names |last=Navasky |first=Victor S. |publisher=Viking |location=New York |year=1980 |page=227 |isbn=0670503932}}</ref> he won the custody battle.<ref name=Sharp_article/>
According to Peter Bogdanovich's DVD commentary on ''Citizen Kane'', Comingore hindered her growth as an actress by refusing too many roles that she felt were uninteresting. This occurred in the wake of her ''Citizen Kane'' success—and before she was derailed by personal and political troubles—when parts were still being offered to her. For example, she passed on the chance to star in an adaptation of the Damon Runyon story, "Little Pinks" (it was made instead with Lucille Ball in 1942 under the title ''The Big Street''). That incident came after she turned down assignments in ''Unexpected Uncle'' (1941) and ''Valley of the Sun'' (1942), which triggered her RKO suspension.<ref>{{cite news |title=Screen News Here and in Hollywood; Dorothy Comingore Is Offered Leading Feminine Role in 'The Little Pinks' at RKO |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/27/archives/screen-news-here-and-in-hollywood-dorothy-comingore-is-offered.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=27 December 1941}}</ref> She did appear in the film version of the Eugene O'Neill play ''The Hairy Ape'' (1944) with William Bendix, Susan Hayward, and John Loder. Comingore's last movie credit was a supporting role in ''The Big Night'' (1951).
Her career effectively came to a halt in 1951 when she was victimized by the Hollywood blacklist.<ref name=IMDb_bio>{{cite web |title=Dorothy Comingore Biography |publisher=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173827/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm }}</ref> The following year, she was summoned to testify before the HUAC about her reputed CPUSA connections. She opted to be an "unfriendly witness" who declined on constitutional grounds to answer questions or name names.<ref name=laj>{{cite news |title=Actress Dorothy Comingore Dies |newspaper=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal |location=Lubbock, Texas |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4052358/lubbock_avalanchejournal/ |date=January 2, 1972 |page=100|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 16, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref name=Comingore_son_article>{{cite magazine |last=Beach |first=Randall |magazine=Connecticut Magazine |date=23 March 2022 |url=https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticutmagazine/article/The-son-of-a-tragic-Hollywood-actress-wants-to-17046897.php |title=The son of a tragic Hollywood actress wants to tell her story |publisher=CT Insider}} A friend recalled about Comingore: "She had very distinct feelings about what was right and what was wrong. And 'ratting' on people was something she would never do."</ref> She was then accused in child custody hearings of being a heavy drinker, and on March 19, 1953, she was arrested for "solicitation", i.e., prostitution, in West Hollywood.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Bromwich |first=David |title=My son has been poisoned! |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n02/david-bromwich/my-son-has-been-poisoned |magazine=London Review of Books |volume=34 |number=2 |date=26 January 2012 |pages=11–13}} This is a review of J. Hoberman's ''An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War'', which mentions Comingore's punishment for non-cooperation with the HUAC.</ref> The arrest was suspected by some to have been a frameup orchestrated by the local L.A. vice squad in coordination with the HUAC.<ref name=Sharp_article>{{Cite web |last=Sharp |first=Kathleen |date=2013-09-13 |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/destroyed-by-huac-the-dorothy-comingore-story/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |title=Destroyed by HUAC: The Dorothy Comingore Story |publisher=Los Angeles Review of Books |language=en}}</ref> Comingore shared this suspicion, asserting in the press shortly afterwards that her arrest was "part of my being an 'unfriendly witness.'"<ref>{{cite news |date=March 20, 1953 |title=Actress Dorothy Comingore Held |location=Chester, Pennsylvania |via=Newspaperarchive.com |page=14 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/entertainment-clipping-mar-20-1953-24639/ |accessdate=January 16, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref> In exchange for having the solicitation charge dropped, she had to agree to be committed to Camarillo State Mental Hospital, where she was institutionalized for approximately two years.<ref name=IMDb_bio/>
She never acted on stage or screen again. In the 1960s, when Professor Howard Suber of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television was researching the history of the ''Citizen Kane'' screenplay, Comingore was one of the film's participants he interviewed. His research was later used by Pauline Kael for her controversial 1971 essay, "Raising Kane".<ref name="Kellow">{{cite book |last=Kellow |first=Brian |title=Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark |url=https://archive.org/details/paulinekaellifei00kell |publisher=Viking |location=New York |date=2011 |url-access=registration |isbn=978-0-670-02312-7 }}</ref>{{Rp|157, 161, 166}} A copy of the Comingore interview is in the Lilly Library collection at Indiana University Bloomington.<ref>{{cite web |last=Suber |first=Howard |date=December 6, 2013 |id=Box 82, Kael Mss. |url=https://archives.iu.edu/catalog/InU-Li-VAA6671aspace_VAA6671-04799 |title=The Evolution of the Script of Citizen Kane; interviews with Dorothy Comingore, Sara Mankiewicz, Richard Wilson and Robert Wise (5 folders) |via=Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington |accessdate=2016-08-30}}</ref>
==Personal life== Comingore was married briefly in the late 1930s to actor-writer Robert Meltzer.<ref name=Ranger_article/><ref>{{cite news|title=How Linda Winters, Former Oakland Girl, Became Movie Queen |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4053349/oakland_tribune/ |date=August 16, 1938 |page=21 |via = Newspapers.com |accessdate = January 16, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref> She then married screenwriter Richard Collins. They had two children and were divorced in 1946.<ref name=awn>{{cite news|title=Actress Balks on Red Party Question |newspaper=The Ada Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4052266/the_ada_weekly_news/ |date=October 23, 1952|location=Ada, Oklahoma |page=3|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 16, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref> Her other husbands were screenwriter Theodore Strauss,<ref name=t/> with whom she had one child; and John W. Crowe, a rural postal carrier and the owner of a small store called the "Crowe's Nest" in Lords Point, Connecticut. She met him in 1957 and they remained together until her death in 1971.<ref name=happy_place/>
Comingore struggled with alcohol abuse during her later years, to the extent that she lost custody of her two children with Collins.<ref name=t>{{cite news|title=Dorothy Comingore Held as Alcoholic |newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4052414/the_times/ |date=May 27, 1953 |location=San Mateo, California |page=22 |via = Newspapers.com |accessdate = January 16, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref> Alcoholism was also believed to have shortened her life.<ref name=IMDb_bio/>
==Death== Although Comingore was mostly confined in her final years by arthritis and failing health, she was said to have found relative contentment during that time while living in seclusion in her seaside home with her husband John Crowe.<ref name=happy_place>{{cite news |title=Poscripts: How a blacklisted movie starlet ended up finding her happy place at Lord's Point |newspaper=The Westerly Sun |last=Slosberg |first=Steven |date=3 June 2024 |url=https://www.thewesterlysun.com/poscripts-how-a-blacklisted-movie-starlet-ended-up-finding-her-happy-place-at-lord-s/article_4ea6a1cc-8ffe-11e9-b3ca-af331f8a4873.html}}</ref><ref name=Comingore_son_article/>
Comingore died of pulmonary disease on December 30, 1971, in Stonington, Connecticut. She was 58.<ref name=IMDb_bio/> Her ashes were scattered in multiple locations. As of 2021, there was no monument or plaque to mark her death. Her descendants and fans were seeking to erect a Dorothy Comingore memorial.<ref name=Comingore_monument/>
==Cultural references== In ''Guilty by Suspicion'', Irwin Winkler's 1991 film set during the Hollywood blacklist, Comingore inspired the character of Dorothy Nolan, an actress who is harassed by the HUAC.<ref name="LAT Collins Obit">{{cite news |last=Woo |first=Elaine |date=February 15, 2013 |title=Blacklisted writer later named names|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2013-feb-15-la-me-richard-collins-20130215-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=August 6, 2021 }}</ref> Nolan was portrayed by Patricia Wettig.
==Radio credits==
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Date ! Title ! Episode ! Notes |- | June 12, 1938 | ''Warner Bros. Academy Theatre'' | "Desirable" | Credited as Kay Winters<ref name="Goldin WB">{{cite web |url=https://radiogoldin.library.umkc.edu/Home/RadioGoldin_Records?searchString=Warner%20Brothers%20Academy%20Theatre&type=Programs |title=Warner Brothers Academy Theatre |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2016-09-08 |archive-date=September 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917201415/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Warner+Brothers+Academy+Theatre |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Warner-Academy-Theater.html |title=Warner Brothers Academy Theatre |publisher=The Digital Deli Too |accessdate=2014-11-04 |archive-date=May 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527062147/http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Warner-Academy-Theater.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- | June 26, 1938 | ''Warner Bros. Academy Theatre'' | "The House on 56th Street" | Credited as Kay Winters<ref name="Goldin WB"/> |- | October 6, 1941 | ''The Orson Welles Show'' | "The Black Pearl" | <ref name="Welles TIOW"/>{{Rp|367}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/1941OrsonWellesShowladyEsther |title=1941 Orson Welles Show (Lady Esther) |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=2016-09-08}}</ref> |}
==Film and television credits== [[File:Prison Train FilmPoster.jpeg|thumb|Poster for ''Prison Train'' (1938)]] {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1938 | ''Campus Cinderella'' | Co-ed | Uncredited, Short film<ref>{{cite AV media |year=2005 |title=Bringing Up Baby: Two-Disc Special Edition |chapter=Campus Cinderella |type=DVD |time=3:15 |location= |publisher=Warner Bros. Home Video |id= |isbn=9780780651302}}</ref> |- | 1938 | ''Prison Train'' | {{sortname|Louise|Terris|nolink=1}} | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1938 | ''Comet Over Broadway'' | {{sortname|Miss|McDermott|nolink=1}} | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/40841-Dorothy-Comingore|title=Dorothy Comingore |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |accessdate=2022-10-14}}</ref> |- | 1938 | ''Trade Winds'' | Ann | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''Blondie Meets the Boss'' | {{sortname|Francis|Rogers|nolink=1}} | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''Romance of the Redwoods'' | Bit Role | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''North of the Yukon'' | {{sortname|Jean|Duncan|nolink=1}} | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''Outside These Walls'' | 2nd secretary | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''Good Girls Go to Paris'' | Tearoom Hostess | Uncredited<ref>{{cite web |title=Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) Full Cast {{&}} Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031383/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> |- | 1939 | ''Coast Guard'' | Nurse | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''Five Little Peppers and How They Grew'' | Nurse | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''Golden Boy'' | Fight Spectator | Uncredited<ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Boy (1939) Full Cast {{&}} Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031377/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> |- | 1939 | ''Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise'' | June Jenkins | Short film, credited as Linda Winters<ref name="Columbia Shorts">{{cite book |last1=Okuda |first1=Ted |last2=Watz |first2=Edward |title=The Columbia Comedy Shorts: Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933–1958 |publisher=McFarland & Company |location=Jefferson, N.C. |date=1998 |isbn=9781476610108}}</ref> |- | 1939 | ''Scandal Sheet'' | {{sortname|Marjorie|Lawe|nolink=1}} | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' | Woman at Station | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1939 | ''{{sortname|The|Awful Goof|nolink=1}}'' | Charley's Fiancee | Short film, credited as Linda Winters<ref name="Columbia Shorts"/> |- | 1939 | ''Cafe Hostess'' | Tricks | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1940 | ''Convicted Woman'' | May | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1940 | ''Pioneers of the Frontier'' | {{sortname|Joan|Darcey|nolink=1}} | Credited as Linda Winters<ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1940 | ''The Heckler'' | Ole's Girlfriend | Short film, credited as Linda Winters<ref name="Columbia Shorts"/> |- | 1940 | ''Rockin' thru the Rockies'' | Daisy | Short film, credited as Linda Winters<ref name="Columbia Shorts"/> |- | 1940 | ''Citizen Kane trailer'' | Herself, Susan Alexander | Short film<ref name="Welles TIOW">{{cite book |last1=Welles |first1=Orson |authorlink1=Orson Welles |last2=Bogdanovich |first2=Peter |authorlink2=Peter Bogdanovich |last3=Rosenbaum |first3=Jonathan |authorlink3=Jonathan Rosenbaum |title=This is Orson Welles |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |location=New York |date=1992 |isbn=0-06-016616-9|title-link=This is Orson Welles }}</ref>{{Rp|360}} |- | 1941 | ''Citizen Kane'' | {{sortname|Susan Alexander|Kane|Sources for Citizen Kane#Susan Alexander Kane}} | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1944 | ''{{sortname|The|Hairy Ape|The Hairy Ape (film)}}'' | {{sortname|Helen|Parker|nolink=1}} | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1949 | ''Any Number Can Play'' | {{sortname|Mrs.|Purcell|nolink=1}} | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1951 | ''{{sortname|The|Big Night|The Big Night (1951 film)}}'' | {{sortname|Julie|Rostina|nolink=1}} | <ref name="AFI"/> |- | 1951 | ''Fireside Theatre'' (TV) | Rita | One episode, "Handcuffed"<ref>{{cite web |title=Fireside Theatre (1949–1955) Full Cast {{&}} Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041023/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> |- | 1952 | ''Rebound'' (TV) | Dotty | One episode, "The Losers"<ref>{{cite web |title=Rebound (1952–1953) Full Cast {{&}} Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044290/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> |- | 1952 | ''{{sortname|The|Doctor|The Doctor (1952 TV series)}}'' (TV) | | One episode, "The Red Wig"<ref>{{cite web |title=The Doctor (1952–1953) Full Cast {{&}} Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044261/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> |}
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Dorothy Comingore}} *{{IMDb name|0173827|name=Dorothy Comingore}} *{{IBDB name|472724}}
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