Mary Cadorette

Cadorette graduated with a BFA in Dramatic Arts and Theater from the University of Connecticut^[2] in 1979.

In 1974, Cadorette participated in a dance pageant and won the Miss Dance of America Title.^[3][4] In 1976, she participated in the Miss America Pageant as "Miss Connecticut".^[5] In 1981, she was acting in commercials.^[6] In 1984, the producers of Three's Company decided at the end of the 8th season that they would spin off a new show starring John Ritter with a love interest. Over 500 women auditioned for the love interest role who would be named Vicky Bradford.^[7] During auditions Ritter felt an immediate connection to Cadorette,^[7] who was cast as flight stewardess Vicky Bradford, and introduced in the Three's Company episode "Cupid Works Overtime".^{[citation needed]} Cadorette as Vicky appeared in two more episodes of Three's Company before she began as a co-star in Three's a Crowd. The show lasted one season.^{[citation needed]}

Cadorette performed in multiple dinner theatres with the USO. She also spent three and a half years on Broadway as an understudy for the lead role of "Peggy Sawyer" in the Broadway musical 42nd Street. She later took over the role. In 1990, she landed the recurring role of Margaret Turner on Night Court.

Cadorette has been in multiple films, including Stewardess School and The Rat Pack. In the 1980s she was also seen on a number of game shows, including The $25,000 Pyramid, Super Password, and Body Language.

In 1999, Cadorette left California and moved back home to Connecticut to take care of her mother who had suffered a stroke. Her mother died eight years later. She continues to act in local stage productions, such as playing Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town for Connecticut Repertory Theatre in 2011.^[8]

Cadorette and two friends, whom she had known since they were in dance school as children, decided to take up dancing again and share their craft and experience. They formed "The Chapeau Rouge Dance Project," encouraging former, retired, (and often older) dance students to attend classes in the dance studio that they rented.^[9]

Cadorette was once married to Michael Eisen.^[10] Later, she married William Harris, and went by the name Mary Cadorette-Harris. William Harris died on October 15, 2010.^[11] On November 1, 2015, she married her childhood sweetheart Michael Daly.^[12]

In 2014, Cadorette opened an antique store in Marlborough, Connecticut, called Nug and Bug Antique Collectibles.^[12]

• In March 2011, Cadorette directed and choreographed Hairspray at Glastonbury High School in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
• In March 2012, Cadorette directed and choreographed 42nd Street at Glastonbury High School utilizing some original Gower Champion choreography.
• In May 2013, Cadorette directed and choreographed Hairspray at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Hartford, Connecticut.

Other directorial/choreographical credits at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts include: A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (December 2014) and West Side Story (May 2016)^{[citation needed]}