Constance Worth

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

August 19, 1912

Died

October 18, 1963 (age 51)

Place of Birth

Sydney, Australia

Also Known As

Jocelyn Howarth

Enid Joyce Howarth

Constance Worth

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.

Known For

Filmography

1949FilmWestern Renegadesas Fake Ann Gordon1949FilmThe Set-Upas Wife (uncredited)1946FilmDeadline at Dawnas Nan Raymond1945FilmSensation Huntersas Irene1945FilmWhy Girls Leave Homeas Flo1945FilmDillingeras Blonde1945FilmThe Kid Sisteras Ethel Hollingsworth1945FilmSagebrush Heroesas Connie Pearson1944FilmCyclone Prairie Rangersas Lola1944FilmFrenchman's Creekas Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)1944FilmCover Girlas Receptionist (uncredited)1943FilmKlondike Kateas Lita1943FilmThe Crime Doctor’s Strangest Caseas Betty Watson1943FilmDangerous Blondesas Reporter (uncredited)1943FilmAppointment in Berlinas English Girl (uncredited)1943FilmCrime Doctoras Betty, Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist1943FilmShe Has What It Takesas June Leslie1943FilmLet's Have Funas Diana Crawford1943FilmG-men vs. the Black Dragonas Vivian Marsh1943FilmCity Without Menas Elsie1942FilmThe Dawn Expressas Linda Pavlo1941FilmBorrowed Heroas Mona Brooks1941FilmSuspicionas Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited)1941FilmCriminals Withinas Alma Barton1941FilmMeet Boston Blackieas Marilyn Howard1940FilmAngels Over Broadwayas Sylvia Marbe1939FilmMystery of the White Roomas Ann Stokes1938FilmThe Wages of Sinas Marjorie Benton1937FilmWindjammeras Betty Selby1937FilmChina Passageas Jane Dunn1934FilmThe Silence of Dean Maitlandas Alma Gray1933FilmThe Squatter's Daughteras Joan Enderby1922FilmThe House in the Forestas Rose Turner1921FilmThe Education of Nickyas Chloe1921FilmLove in the Welsh Hills1920FilmFate's Playthingas Dolores Blockett

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