Contrary to popular myth, the character of Susan Alexander Kane (played by Dorothy Comingore) in Građanin Kane (1941) was not primarily based on her. Orson Welles told filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich that this wasn't the case. Business tycoon Harold Fowler McCormick's lavish promotion of the opera career of his second wife was the direct influence for the character. "As for Marion [Davies]," Welles said, "she was an extraordinary woman-nothing like the character Dorothy Comingore played in the movie.".
