A 1926 press report describes Phyllis Nadine Redman (1912-92) as “probably the only chorus girl in the history of that calling who owns an airplane and is able to fly it”. She was only fourteen at the time (the report claims 17) so you would have to say, remarkable if true.
The following year, Dore won the first of many beauty pageants and, being a resident of Culver City, she inevitably had her eyes set on film stardom. Ironic, then, that her break into show business meant going east to appear in a Broadway production of New Moon. By the time she was sixteen, she had been in three Broadway shows.
Returning to Hollywood in 1929, Dore got into film musicals pretty much at the ground floor, playing a chorus girl in RKO’s successful version of Rio Rita (1929). The only way from there was down. Dore had a few credited roles in Poverty Row westerns, but was otherwise restricted to uncredited bit parts. At one point she changed her name to Carol Wyndham, to little effect, though it is claimed by some sources that she had a line in Nothing Sacred (1937).
She subsequently worked on the nightclub circuit, before becoming an ‘exotic dancer’. Her later life seems to have been colourful, including an arrest for fortune telling early in her career as an astrologer.
Before any of this, Dore was a chorus girl in MGM’s Dancing Lady.
Thanks to Vitaphone Zone for much of this information.
