Constance Worth
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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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.811 |
Birthday | 1912-08-19 |
Place of Birth | Sydney, Australia |
Also Known As | Jocelyn Howarth, Enid Joyce Howarth, |
1922
The House in the Forest
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1921
Love in the Welsh Hills
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A farmer frames a petty officer for theft and confesses after falling over a cliff.
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Love in the Welsh Hills
1946
Deadline at Dawn
6.2/30
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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1945
Dillinger
5.9/29
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
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Dillinger
1940
Angels Over Broadway
5.8/27
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1949
The Set-Up
7.3/148
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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1941
Meet Boston Blackie
6.3/13
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Meet Boston Blackie
1942
The Dawn Express
4/5
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1939
Mystery of the White Room
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1937
China Passage
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1945
Why Girls Leave Home
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Why Girls Leave Home
1945
The Kid Sister
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The Kid Sister
1943
Let's Have Fun
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1941
Borrowed Hero
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Borrowed Hero
1941
Criminals Within
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1937
Windjammer
5/1
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Windjammer
1933
The Squatter's Daughter
6/1
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1944
Cover Girl
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1943
G-men vs. the Black Dragon
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Fate's Plaything
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1938
The Wages of Sin
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1943
Appointment in Berlin
6.4/4
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1945
Sensation Hunters
4.7/6
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1943
Klondike Kate
5.7/3
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Klondike Kate
1943
Crime Doctor
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1921
The Education of Nicky
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Rich cousins marry after they are both bankrupted.
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The Education of Nicky
1944
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
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Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1945
Sagebrush Heroes
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1949
Western Renegades
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Brown's principal antagonist this time is the town boss, an outlaw who has killed the community's leading citizen. The dead man's grown children want...
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Western Renegades
1943
Dangerous Blondes
6/5
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Dangerous Blondes
1943
City Without Men
5/2
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1943
She Has What It Takes
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1943
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
3.7/3
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1941
Suspicion
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Suspicion
1944
Frenchman's Creek
5.033/15
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