Dorothy Dearing (1913-65) was one of the many young women in the Golden Age who travelled to Hollywood with their mothers in search of fame. She was essentially a dancer, and apparently had been giving dancing lessons to others by the time she was 16.
After a period of auditions and routine jobs, Dearing obtained a contract with Fox in 1933, and seems to have been immediately loaned out to MGM, who needed vast numbers of chorus girls for Dancing Lady.
Dearing accumulated around thirty appearances over the next ten years. Most were uncredited, a handful were not. One of her credited roles was in Free, Blonde and 21 (1940), which starred her fellow Dancing Lady chorine, Lynn Bari.
Dearing bowed out of Hollywood with Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air (1942), moving into the import/export business.
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