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Constance Worth

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1912-08-19

Birth Place

Sydney, Australia

Movies and TV shows :

Angels Over Broadway

Angels Over Broadway

1940

5.8

Movie
Appointment in Berlin

Appointment in Berlin

1943

6.4

Movie
Borrowed Hero

Borrowed Hero

1941

4.0

Movie
China Passage

China Passage

1937

5.5

Movie
City Without Men

City Without Men

1943

5.0

Movie
Cover Girl

Cover Girl

1944

6.4

Movie
Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor

1943

6.2

Movie
Criminals Within

Criminals Within

1941

6.5

Movie
Cyclone Prairie Rangers

Cyclone Prairie Rangers

1944

0.0

Movie
Dangerous Blondes

Dangerous Blondes

1943

6.0

Movie
Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn

1946

6.2

Movie
Dillinger

Dillinger

1945

5.9

Movie
Fate's Plaything

Fate's Plaything

1920

0.0

Movie
Frenchman's Creek

Frenchman's Creek

1944

5.0

Movie
G-men vs. the Black Dragon

G-men vs. the Black Dragon

1943

5.0

Movie
Klondike Kate

Klondike Kate

1943

5.7

Movie
Let's Have Fun

Let's Have Fun

1943

0.0

Movie
Love in the Welsh Hills

Love in the Welsh Hills

1921

0.0

Movie
Meet Boston Blackie

Meet Boston Blackie

1941

6.3

Movie
Mystery of the White Room

Mystery of the White Room

1939

0.0

Movie
Sagebrush Heroes

Sagebrush Heroes

1945

0.0

Movie
Sensation Hunters

Sensation Hunters

1945

4.7

Movie
She Has What It Takes

She Has What It Takes

1943

0.0

Movie
Suspicion

Suspicion

1941

7.1

Movie
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

1943

3.7

Movie
The Dawn Express

The Dawn Express

1942

4.0

Movie
The Education of Nicky

The Education of Nicky

1921

0.0

Movie
The House in the Forest

The House in the Forest

1922

0.0

Movie
The Kid Sister

The Kid Sister

1945

6.0

Movie
The Set-Up

The Set-Up

1949

7.3

Movie
The Squatter's Daughter

The Squatter's Daughter

1933

6.0

Movie
The Wages of Sin

The Wages of Sin

1938

1.0

Movie
Western Renegades

Western Renegades

1949

5.0

Movie
Why Girls Leave Home

Why Girls Leave Home

1945

5.0

Movie
Windjammer

Windjammer

1937

5.0

Movie