1. Margaret Louise Comingore, known professionally as Dorothy Comingore, was an American stage and film actress.
14 Facts About Dorothy Comingore
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Margaret Louise Comingore was born in Los Angeles, but spent most of her childhood in Oakland, California.
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Dorothy Comingore was a union organizer, which influenced her political education.
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Dorothy Comingore attended the University of California, Berkeley where she studied philosophy.
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Dorothy Comingore lived for a while in Taos, New Mexico, and then returned to California to work in the theater.
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In demand from other studios but denied loanouts by her new studio employer, RKO Pictures, Dorothy Comingore fell ill, was ordered to go on bed rest, was suspended by RKO, and found no suitable work on her return.
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Dorothy Comingore did appear in the film version of the Eugene O'Neill play The Hairy Ape with William Bendix, Susan Hayward, and John Loder.
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Dorothy Comingore's last movie credit was a supporting role in The Big Night.
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Dorothy Comingore opted to be an "unfriendly witness" who declined on constitutional grounds to answer questions or name names.
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Dorothy Comingore's research was later used by Pauline Kael for her controversial 1971 essay, "Raising Kane".
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Dorothy Comingore was married briefly in the late 1930s to actor-writer Robert Meltzer.
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Dorothy Comingore met him in 1957 and they remained together until her death in 1971.
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Dorothy Comingore struggled with alcohol abuse during her later years, to the extent that she lost custody of her two children with Collins.
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Dorothy Comingore died of pulmonary disease on December 30,1971, in Stonington, Connecticut.