Frances Wormser

Background

Frances Dewey was born in New York City on June 23, 1903, the daughter of Alfred James Dewey (1874–1958), a California artist who was considered the "dean" of an early art colony in Sierra Madre, California.

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. 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.

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.

Frances Dewey Wormser died on January 28, 2008, from natural causes in Santa Paula, California.

She was 104 years old. She had no children.

Connections

Partner:

Lew Fields

Friend:

Gold Revue