Constance Worth

Born: 1912-08-19

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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Suspicion

as Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
Released: 1941-11-14

A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad...

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The Set-Up

as Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1949-03-29

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling...

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Cover Girl

as Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: 1944-03-22

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

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Angels Over Broadway

as Sylvia Marbe
Released: 1940-10-02

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his...

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Crime Doctor

as Betty, Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist
Released: 1943-06-22

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to ...

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Deadline at Dawn

as Nan Raymond
Released: 1946-03-18

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag...

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G-men vs. the Black Dragon

as Vivian Marsh
Released: 1943-01-16

Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.

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The Dawn Express

as Linda Pavlo
Released: 1942-03-27

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for...

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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

as Betty Watson
Released: 1943-12-09

The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.

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Dillinger

as Blonde
Released: 1945-04-25

The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.

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Mystery of the White Room

as Ann Stokes
Released: 1939-03-17

A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

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Why Girls Leave Home

as Flo
Released: 1945-10-09

In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated...

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Borrowed Hero

as Mona Brooks
Released: 1941-12-05

A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.

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Frenchman's Creek

as Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
Released: 1944-09-20

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home...

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Dangerous Blondes

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1943-09-23

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving...

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Klondike Kate

as Lita
Released: 1943-12-16

A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.

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Sensation Hunters

as Irene
Released: 1945-10-12

A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who...

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The Wages of Sin

as Marjorie Benton
Released: 1938-07-14

A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls...

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Meet Boston Blackie

as Marilyn Howard
Released: 1941-02-20

When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a...

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City Without Men

as Elsie
Released: 1943-01-14

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near...

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Western Renegades

as Fake Ann Gordon
Released: 1949-10-08

Brown's principal antagonist this time is the town boss, an outlaw who has killed the...

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Appointment in Berlin

as English Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-15

The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war...

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Sagebrush Heroes

as Connie Pearson
Released: 1945-02-01

This Columbia western starring Charles Starrett finds Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) forming a...

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Let's Have Fun

as Diana Crawford
Released: 1943-03-04

When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its...

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China Passage

as Jane Dunn
Released: 1937-03-12

Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to...

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Criminals Within

as Alma Barton
Released: 1941-06-27

A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.

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Windjammer

as Betty Selby
Released: 1937-08-06

The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded...

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Fate's Plaything

as Dolores Blockett
Released: 1920-05-10

Dolores gets a marriage proposal from the promising young doctor Lucas, but on the day of their...

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Cyclone Prairie Rangers

as Lola
Released: 1944-11-09

It's World War 2 and saboteurs are out to destroy the ranchers food crop. Steve Travis and...

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She Has What It Takes

as June Leslie
Released: 1943-04-15

Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a...

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The Squatter's Daughter

as Joan Enderby
Released: 1933-09-23

A story of rival sheep stations and of the strong-willed squatter’s daughter who wants to unite...

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The Kid Sister

as Ethel Hollingsworth
Released: 1945-02-06

A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan...

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