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Constance Worth

Constance Worth

Known For Acting
Birthday Aug 19, 1912
Died Oct 18, 1963 (51)
Birthplace Sydney, Australia
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Aug 07, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 20, 2024
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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 S ... ilence 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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Western Renegades

Western Renegades

1949

as Fake Ann Gordon

The Set-Up

The Set-Up

1949

as Wife (uncredited)

Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn

1946

as Nan Raymond

Sagebrush Heroes

Sagebrush Heroes

1945

as Connie Pearson

Sensation Hunters

Sensation Hunters

1945

as Irene

The Kid Sister

The Kid Sister

1945

as Ethel Hollingsworth

Why Girls Leave Home

Why Girls Leave Home

1945

as Flo

Dillinger

Dillinger

1945

as Blonde

Cover Girl

Cover Girl

1944

as Receptionist (uncredited)

Frenchman's Creek

Frenchman's Creek

1944

as Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)

G-men vs. the Black Dragon

G-men vs. the Black Dragon

1943

as Vivian Marsh

She Has What It Takes

She Has What It Takes

1943

as June Leslie

Klondike Kate

Klondike Kate

1943

as Lita

Let's Have Fun

Let's Have Fun

1943

as Diana Crawford

City Without Men

City Without Men

1943

as Elsie

Appointment in Berlin

Appointment in Berlin

1943

as English Girl (uncredited)

Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor

1943

as Betty, Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist

Dangerous Blondes

Dangerous Blondes

1943

as Reporter (uncredited)

The Dawn Express

The Dawn Express

1942

as Linda Pavlo

Meet Boston Blackie

Meet Boston Blackie

1941

as Marilyn Howard

Criminals Within

Criminals Within

1941

as Alma Barton

Borrowed Hero

Borrowed Hero

1941

as Mona Brooks

Suspicion

Suspicion

1941

as Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited)

Angels Over Broadway

Angels Over Broadway

1940

as Sylvia Marbe

Mystery of the White Room

Mystery of the White Room

1939

as Ann Stokes

The Wages of Sin

The Wages of Sin

1938

as Marjorie Benton

China Passage

China Passage

1937

as Jane Dunn

Windjammer

Windjammer

1937

as Betty Selby

The Squatter's Daughter

The Squatter's Daughter

1933

as Joan Enderby

The Education of Nicky

The Education of Nicky

1921

as Chloe

Fate's Plaything

Fate's Plaything

1920

as Dolores Blockett

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