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person_profile-Constance Worth

Constance Worth Died at age: 51

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Constance Worth

Date of Birth:

Aug 19, 1912

Country of birth:

Australia

Died:

Oct 18, 1963

Biography of

Constance Worth

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Constance Worth (also known as Jocelyn Howarth) (19 August 1911 – 18 October 1963) was an Australian actress who became a Hollywood star in the late 1930s. As Jocelyn Howarth, she experienced success in Ken Hall's films The Squatter's Daughter (1933) and The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934). Cinesound put her under an 18-month contract and paid for her to tour Australia as their rising star.

    Ken Hall claimed Howarth's first screen test showed "light and shade, good diction, no accent and (that) she undoubtedly could act with no sign of the self-consciousness which almost always characterised the amateur." In late 1933, Smith's Weekly raved enthusiastically about the young actress; "Young Joy Howarth who leapt into publicity when she became the Squatter's Daughter a few months ago, is just the big hit nowadays...."

    In April 1936, she sailed for the United States and Hollywood. After six months of unsuccessful effort, including a near-fatal incident with a gas stove in her flat, she signed a contract with RKO Pictures, taking the leading female roles as Constance Worth, in China Passage and Windjammer. The change of name was related to her first role with established Hollywood actor Vinton Hayworth. After Windjammer, RKO offered her no more films. Her next role was in Willis Kent's 1938 exploitation quickie, The Wages of Sin, playing a young woman lured into prostitution. For the next 12 years, she appeared in a mix of leading, supporting, and uncredited roles in B films. In mid-1939, she returned to act on stage in Australia, but went back to the U.S. before the end of the year. In 1941, she appeared in an uncredited minor role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion, and in the same year, a leading role in the gangster B film Borrowed Hero. Her last film was a minor role in the 1949 Johnny Mack Brown Western Western Renegades. Throughout her career and as late as 1961, publicity in Australia repeatedly suggested she was on the verge of signing a major studio contract again. This did not happen.

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Constance Worth

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Filmography of

Constance Worth

Found 32 Movies in total

Western Renegades

Fake Ann Gordon ( Actor )

... 1949

The Set-Up

Wife (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1949

Deadline at Dawn

Nan Raymond ( Actor )

... 1946

Sensation Hunters

Irene ( Actor )

... 1945

... 1945

Dillinger

Blonde ( Actor )

... 1945

The Kid Sister

Ethel Hollingsworth ( Actor )

... 1945

Sagebrush Heroes

Connie Pearson ( Actor )

... 1945

... 1944

Frenchman's Creek

Woman in Gaming House (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Cover Girl

Receptionist (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Klondike Kate

Lita ( Actor )

... 1943

... 1943

Dangerous Blondes

Reporter ( Actor )

... 1943

Appointment in Berlin

English Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Crime Doctor

Betty, Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist ( Actor )

... 1943

She Has What It Takes

June Leslie ( Actor )

... 1943

Let's Have Fun

Diana Crawford ( Actor )

... 1943

G-men vs. the Black Dragon

Vivian Marsh ( Actor )

... 1943

City Without Men

Elsie ( Actor )

... 1943

The Dawn Express

Linda Pavlo ( Actor )

... 1942

Borrowed Hero

Mona Brooks ( Actor )

... 1941

Suspicion

Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941

Criminals Within

Alma Barton ( Actor )

... 1941

Meet Boston Blackie

Marilyn Howard ( Actor )

... 1941

Angels Over Broadway

Sylvia Marbe ( Actor )

... 1940

Mystery of the White Room

Ann Stokes ( Actor )

... 1939

The Wages of Sin

Marjorie Benton ( Actor )

... 1938

Windjammer

Betty Selby ( Actor )

... 1937

China Passage

Jane Dunn ( Actor )

... 1937

The Squatter's Daughter

Joan Enderby ( Actor )

... 1933

Fate's Plaything

Dolores Blockett ( Actor )

... 1920