- Last living cast member of the 1941 movie "Citizen Kane"; she also served as Orson Welles' personal assistant.
- In 1965, under her married name, Kathryn Popper, published "Honorable Hibachi: A Delectable and Versatile Collection of Recipes Inspired by the Indoor/outdoor Japanese Charcoal Grill and Elegantly Suitable for Every Type of Broiler and Stove" (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965), the first cookbook for recipes designed for preparation on the hibachi (Japanese for "fire basin"), traditionally used in Japan as a heating unit but used in the United States as a barbecue grill.
- Attended the University of Southern California for two years on an academic scholarship.
- Her brother, Guy Trosper, would write the screenplay for the 1962 Burt Lancaster movie "Birdman of Alcatraz" and adapt the John Le Carré novel "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" for the 1965 film with Richard Burton.
- In 1943 she married Martin Popper, who was executive secretary of the National Lawyers Guild. He defended Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson, film writers who were among the so-called Hollywood 10 convicted in 1950 of contempt of Congress for refusing to say whether they were Communists. In 1961, Mr. Popper himself was convicted of the same offense, but was later reversed.
- Kathryn Trosper Popper, who was a 25-year-old personal assistant to Orson Welles when he cast her as a photographer in the closing scene of "Citizen Kane" and fed her the immortal line, "What's Rosebud?." She was 100 at her death and believed to be the last surviving actor to have appeared in the film, which was released in 1941.
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