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 (who was still using his name of Archie Leach) and
Jeanette MacDonald 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. ==Death==