Kathryn Trosper Popper, the personal assistant to Orson Welles who appeared in his landmark film “Citizen Kane,” died Sunday just 11 days short of her 101st birthday, her daughter Laura Popper said on Facebook. According to the younger Popper, the actress developed pneumonia last week and “in her Lazarus like way, rallied and improved.” However, by Friday, “a switch flipped and within minutes she was struggling to breathe, aglow with fever.” Popper played a roving photographer in “Citizen Kane,” uttering the famous lines “What’s Rosebud?” and “All in crates.” She was the last surviving cast member of the 1941 drama, which was.
- 3/9/2016
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
The last surviving cast member of Citizen Kane, Kathryn Trosper Popper, has died at 100. Trosper, a longtime assistant to the film's director, Orson Welles, died Sunday at her home in New York City, her son, Joe Popper, told The Hollywood Reporter. In the classic 1941 film, Trosper played the photographer who asks, "What's Rosebud?" following Kane's famous last words. Recalling her dual roles as actor and assistant, she said in an interview last year, "I would just drop my notebook and run on the set." Years later, Trosper defended her old boss after Pauline Kael's essay "Raising Kane" asserted that...
- 3/8/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
The last surviving cast member of Citizen Kane, Kathryn Trosper Popper, has died at 100. Trosper, a longtime assistant to the film's director, Orson Welles, died Sunday at her home in New York City, her son, Joe Popper, told The Hollywood Reporter. In the classic 1941 film, Trosper played the photographer who asks, "What's Rosebud?" following Kane's famous last words. Recalling her dual roles as actor and assistant, she said in an interview last year, "I would just drop my notebook and run on the set." Years later, Trosper defended her old boss after Pauline Kael's essay "Raising Kane" asserted that...
- 3/8/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
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