Constance Worth
Constance Worth is known for Suspicion (1941), The Set-Up (1949), Cover Girl (1944).
Biography
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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.
Questions about Constance Worth
How many Constance Worth films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 23 films with Constance Worth, from 1934 to 2013.
What is the best rated Constance Worth film?
The best rated Constance Worth film in the catalogue is The Set-Up (1949), rated 7.4.
What was the first Constance Worth film?
The first Constance Worth film in the catalogue is Suspicion, from 1941.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Full filmography
37 films — 23 in the catalogue
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5.9 That's Sexploitation!
2013 · archive footage
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6.5 Western Renegades
1949 · Fake Ann Gordon
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7.4 The Set-Up
1949 · Wife (uncredited)
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6.2 Deadline at Dawn
1946 · Nan Raymond
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4.8 Sensation Hunters
1945 · Irene
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5.7 Why Girls Leave Home
1945 · Flo
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5.9 Dillinger
1945 · Blonde
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7.0 The Kid Sister
1945 · Ethel Hollingsworth
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9.0 Sagebrush Heroes
1945 · Connie Pearson
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9.0 Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944 · Lola
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5.8 Frenchman's Creek
1944 · Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
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6.4 Cover Girl
1944 · Receptionist (uncredited)
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5.5 Klondike Kate
1943 · Lita
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5.2 The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943 · Betty Watson
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6.3 Dangerous Blondes
1943 · Reporter (uncredited)
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7.1 Appointment in Berlin
1943 · English Girl (uncredited)
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6.4 Crime Doctor
1943 · Betty, Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist
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9.0 She Has What It Takes
1943 · June Leslie
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9.0 Let's Have Fun
1943 · Diana Crawford
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6.7 G-men vs. the Black Dragon
1943 · Vivian Marsh
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5.7 City Without Men
1943 · Elsie
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5.1 The Dawn Express
1942 · Linda Pavlo
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5.5 Borrowed Hero
1941 · Mona Brooks
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7.1 Suspicion
1941 · Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
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6.5 Criminals Within
1941 · Alma Barton
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6.3 Meet Boston Blackie
1941 · Marilyn Howard
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5.9 Angels Over Broadway
1940 · Sylvia Marbe
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9.0 Mystery of the White Room
1939 · Ann Stokes
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3.7 The Wages of Sin
1938 · Marjorie Benton
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5.7 Windjammer
1937 · Betty Selby
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6.3 China Passage
1937 · Jane Dunn
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6.5 The Silence of Dean Maitland
1934 · Alma Gray
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7.5 The Squatter's Daughter
1933 · Joan Enderby
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9.0
La maison dans la forêt
1922 · Rose Turner
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9.0
The Education of Nicky
1921 · Chloe
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Love in the Welsh Hills
1921
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7.0 Fate's Plaything
1920 · Dolores Blockett
People data: TMDb.
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