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- Susan Alexander Kane Played by Dorothy Comingore Kane’s mistress, who becomes his second wife.
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Susan Alexander Kane (Dorothy Comingore) was Kane's second wife. She was twenty-one when they first met in the mid-1910s (Kane would have been at least fifty); she is evidently low class and is in charge of the sheet music at a shop.
Kane’s mistress, who becomes his second wife. When they meet, Susan seems soft and sweet to him, but her true nature turns out to be whiny and demanding. Kane never sees her for what she is.
Thompson sets out to interview Kane's friends and associates. He tries to approach Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander Kane, now an alcoholic who runs her nightclub, but she refuses to talk to him. Thompson goes to the private archive of the late banker Walter Parks Thatcher.
Comingore played bit parts in Hollywood 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).
Susan Alexander (Kane) is played by Dorothy Comingore. She is Charles Foster Kane's second wife, a failed opera singer who, during the film's present day, is the alcoholic owner of the El Rancho in Atlantic City. In comparison to Kane's first wife, Susan is portrayed as common.
He approaches Kane's second wife (Dorothy Comingore), Susan Alexander Kane, now an alcoholic who runs her own nightclub, but she refuses to talk to him. Thompson goes to the private archive of the late banker Walter Parks Thatcher (George Coulouris), also Kane's legal guardian when he was young.
When his second wife Susan prepares to leave him, he says angrily that she can’t do that to him. She firmly responds, “Yes, I can,” and then walks out the door. Critics generally accept that Welles based the character of Kane on publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and other powerful men of his time, but Welles certainly based the ...
