Career
Dewey spent more than a decade in showbusiness during the 1920s and 1930s. She played the lead role in a number of shows, including the 1925 revival of Sally, Irene & Mary. It was her performance in The Girl Friend in 1926, which caught the attention of producer Lew Fields. Fields created the Dewey and Gold Revue, specifically for Dewey and her professional performing partner, Al Gold. Dewey and Gold toured together on the Pantages Circuit in 1927 and 1928. She toured in Good Boy in 1929.
Wormser also performed with Cary Grant in an out-of-town tryout of Boom Boom in late 1928, which was one of Grant's earliest roles. She later appeared in Shoot the Works, a 1931 revue on Broadway by Heywood Broun. Dewey was also featured in the very first franchised list of Leonard Sillman's New Faces in 1934. Silman's New Faces introduced audiences to new up-and-coming Broadway actors, such as Wormser. The 1934 first edition of New Faces also included Henry Fonda and Imogene Coca. Coca became a lifelong friend of Frances Wormser, who also counted Leo Lerman, the former editor of Vogue Magazine and editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, to be her professional "soul mate". He died in 1994.
Dewey officially retired from the entertainment industry during the 1930s. She was a buyer for Jane Engel, a women's clothing company, around this time.
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