Phyllis Jeanne Creore

Creore married film producer Ted Westerman in 1946, and they had a daughter. After World War II, she became an artist, creating paintings and sculptures. Creore died on October 3, 2016, in Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, aged 100.

The New-York Historical Society included a short film about Creore in a 2012 exhibit about New York City in World War II.

Other radio programs on which Creore had lead roles included Are You a Missing Heir?, Against the Storm, Aunt Jenny, Big Sister, Listen, America, Maudie's Diary, and Melodies at Midday. She also acted on television, appearing on 40 TV programs before February 1945.

Beginning on August 28, 1942, Creore starred in Canteen Girl, a radio program that was "designed to raise the spirits of members of the armed services". A 2016 report on NBC described the show as "essentially a home-cooked counter-punch to the infamous 'Tokyo Rose' broadcasts airing Japanese propaganda and anti-American rhetoric during the war."

Creore was Miss Television at the 1939 New York World's Fair, demonstrating TV to fair attendees. As she interviewed people in a garden outside the RCA exhibit, coaxial-cable connections enabled audiences of more than 400 people to watch the interviews indoors on 20 TV sets. She co-starred in Hollywood Dreams, a twice-weekly daytime program that debuted on May 28, 1940, on CBS radio. The program focused on a "movie-struck girl, who works as waitress in a resort hotel to raise funds for a trip to Hollywood".

By 1938, Creore had begun acting on radio in addition to singing. The "low, vibrant quality of her speaking voice" led to her obtaining regular parts in radio shows and making guest appearances on other programs, including multiple appearances on The Fred Allen Show. In May 1938, she was a student in Paramount Pictures' dramatic school in preparation for possible work in films.

In 1937, she moved to New York City to progress in her career, living at the Rehearsal Club with other job-seeking entertainers. Her efforts to obtain a job singing on radio were fruitless until a stop at the NBC studios provided an audition with John B. Gambling. She began performing on his Musical Clock Hour on WOR, using the stage name Phyllis Fane. Later in 1937 she became a featured singer in Montreal, performing with Lloyd Huntley's orchestra at the Mount Royal Hotel. She also toured with the Huntley orchestra, and she acted in summer stock theater in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Phyllis Jeanne Creore (March 21, 1916 - October 3, 2016) was an American singer and actress in the era of old-time radio.

Creore was born on March 21, 1916, in Rochester, New York. the daughter of Alvin Creore and Florence Geneva Smith Creore. She had one sibling. Growing up, she participated in activities of Monroe Avenue Methodist Church's Epworth League, including acting in plays.