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Constance Worth
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Constance Worth
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-08-19, Sydney, Australia
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

The House in the Forest

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The House in the Forest
1922-10-20

Love in the Welsh Hills

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Love in the Welsh Hills
1921-01-01

Deadline at Dawn

6.219

Deadline at Dawn
1946-03-18

5.9

Dillinger
1945-04-25

Angels Over Broadway

5.911

Angels Over Broadway
1940-10-02

7.3

The Set-Up
1949-03-29

Meet Boston Blackie

6.3

Meet Boston Blackie
1941-02-20

The Dawn Express

4

The Dawn Express
1942-03-27

Mystery of the White Room

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Mystery of the White Room
1939-03-17

5.5

China Passage
1937-03-12

Why Girls Leave Home

5

Why Girls Leave Home
1945-10-09

6

The Kid Sister
1945-02-06

0

Let's Have Fun
1943-03-04

4

Borrowed Hero
1941-12-05

Criminals Within

6.5

Criminals Within
1941-06-27

5

Windjammer
1937-08-06

The Squatter's Daughter

6

The Squatter's Daughter
1933-09-23

6.4

Cover Girl
1944-03-22

G-men vs. the Black Dragon

5

G-men vs. the Black Dragon
1943-01-16

Fate's Plaything

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Fate's Plaything
1920-05-10

The Wages of Sin

1

The Wages of Sin
1938-07-14

Appointment in Berlin

6.4

Appointment in Berlin
1943-07-15

Sensation Hunters

4.7

Sensation Hunters
1945-10-12

5.7

Klondike Kate
1943-12-16

6.2

Crime Doctor
1943-06-22

The Education of Nicky

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The Education of Nicky
1921-03-31

Cyclone Prairie Rangers

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Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944-11-09

Sagebrush Heroes

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Sagebrush Heroes
1945-02-01

Western Renegades

5

Western Renegades
1949-10-08

Dangerous Blondes

6

Dangerous Blondes
1943-09-23

City Without Men

5

City Without Men
1943-01-14

She Has What It Takes

0

She Has What It Takes
1943-04-15

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

4.8

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943-12-09

7.1

Suspicion
1941-11-14

Frenchman's Creek

5

Frenchman's Creek
1944-09-20