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Sunday Morning Star, Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 3, 1940.

Just before the camera went into action on set of „Citizen Kane,“

Orson Welles, producer, director and principal player,

gave some last-minute instructions to Actor George Coulouris.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture, April 1941

& Leading lady to Orson Welles in RKO‘s „Citizen

Kane,“ Dorothy Comingore collects Shakespearean works

and Persian cats.

(...) Photo, Sunday Morning Star, Wilmington, Nov. 3, 1940

„The comedian reported her to Hollywood“

Editorial content. „Gives Dorothy Comingore a Chance

      Welles Stars Chaplin‘s ,Forgotten Woman´

      At the right is pictured Charlie Chaplin‘s ,forgotten woman.´

      Orson Welles thinks nobody will forget her after seeing

his RKO film, Citizen Kane.

      Chaplin ran across her when she was in a Carmel, Cal.,

little theater. His eye for beauty was as quick to single

her out as were the artists for whom she used to pose at

Taos, N. M.

      Three Little Words

      The comedian reported her to Hollywood and

in succession two studios signed her, but the best she could

get was a three-word part in a film nobody remembers.

      After that nobody could remember Dorothy

Comingore.

      But Orson Welles met red-haired, green-eyed Dorothy

at a party in the days when Hollywoodians were first

beginning to lionize him as a quadruple-threat man –  actor,

producer and director.“ (...)

     

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