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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Western Renegades
Character:Fake Ann Gordon
Release Date:08/10/1949
The Set-Up
Character:Wife (uncredited)
Release Date:29/03/1949
Deadline at Dawn
Character:Nan Raymond
Release Date:18/03/1946
Sensation Hunters
Character:Irene
Release Date:12/10/1945
Why Girls Leave Home
Character:Flo
Release Date:09/10/1945
Dillinger
Character:Blonde
Release Date:25/04/1945
The Kid Sister
Character:Ethel Hollingsworth
Release Date:06/02/1945
Sagebrush Heroes
Character:Connie Pearson
Release Date:01/02/1945
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Character:Lola
Release Date:09/11/1944
Frenchman's Creek
Character:Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
Release Date:20/09/1944
Cover Girl
Character:Receptionist (uncredited)
Release Date:22/03/1944
Klondike Kate
Character:Lita
Release Date:16/12/1943
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
Character:Betty Watson
Release Date:09/12/1943
Dangerous Blondes
Character:Reporter (uncredited)
Release Date:23/09/1943
Appointment in Berlin
Character:English Girl (uncredited)
Release Date:15/07/1943
Crime Doctor
Character:Betty, Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist
Release Date:22/06/1943
She Has What It Takes
Character:June Leslie
Release Date:15/04/1943
Let's Have Fun
Character:Diana Crawford
Release Date:04/03/1943
G-men vs. the Black Dragon
Character:Vivian Marsh
Release Date:16/01/1943
City Without Men
Character:Elsie
Release Date:14/01/1943
The Dawn Express
Character:Linda Pavlo
Release Date:27/03/1942
Borrowed Hero
Character:Mona Brooks
Release Date:05/12/1941
Suspicion
Character:Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
Release Date:14/11/1941
Criminals Within
Character:Alma Barton
Release Date:27/06/1941
Meet Boston Blackie
Character:Marilyn Howard
Release Date:20/02/1941
Angels Over Broadway
Character:Sylvia Marbe
Release Date:02/10/1940
Mystery of the White Room
Character:Ann Stokes
Release Date:17/03/1939
The Wages of Sin
Character:Marjorie Benton
Release Date:14/07/1938
Windjammer
Character:Betty Selby
Release Date:06/08/1937
China Passage
Character:Jane Dunn
Release Date:12/03/1937
The Silence of Dean Maitland
Character:Alma Gray
Release Date:12/05/1934
The Squatter's Daughter
Character:Joan Enderby
Release Date:23/09/1933
The House in the Forest
Character:Rose Turner
Release Date:20/10/1922
The Education of Nicky
Character:Chloe
Release Date:31/03/1921
Love in the Welsh Hills
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1921
Fate's Plaything
Character:Dolores Blockett
Release Date:10/05/1920
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