Constance Worth

Constance Worth

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.

  • Title: Constance Worth
  • Popularity: 0.1578
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1912-08-19
  • Place of Birth: Sydney, Australia
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  • Also Known As: Jocelyn Howarth, Enid Joyce Howarth
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Constance Worth Movies

  • 1922
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    The House in the Forest

    The House in the Forest

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1921
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    Love in the Welsh Hills

    Love in the Welsh Hills

    1 1921 HD

    A farmer frames a petty officer for theft and confesses after falling over a cliff.

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  • 1946
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    Deadline at Dawn

    Deadline at Dawn

    6.2 1946 HD

    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
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    Dillinger

    Dillinger

    5.844 1945 HD

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

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  • 1940
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    Angels Over Broadway

    Angels Over Broadway

    5.783 1940 HD

    Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.

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  • 1949
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    The Set-Up

    The Set-Up

    7.3 1949 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    Meet Boston Blackie

    Meet Boston Blackie

    6.3 1941 HD

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

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  • 1942
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    The Dawn Express

    The Dawn Express

    3.7 1942 HD

    A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.

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  • 1939
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    Mystery of the White Room

    Mystery of the White Room

    1 1939 HD

    A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

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  • 1937
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    China Passage

    China Passage

    5.5 1937 HD

    Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on success or killed on failure. The diamond is stolen as they take possession of it.

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  • 1945
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    Why Girls Leave Home

    Why Girls Leave Home

    5 1945 HD

    In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like suicide. An intrepid reporter disbelieves the report and exposes the truth to the public.

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  • 1945
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    The Kid Sister

    The Kid Sister

    6 1945 HD

    A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.

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  • 1943
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    Let's Have Fun

    Let's Have Fun

    1 1943 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    Borrowed Hero

    Borrowed Hero

    4 1941 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    Criminals Within

    Criminals Within

    6 1941 HD

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

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  • 1937
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    Windjammer

    Windjammer

    5 1937 HD

    The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "Daniel Boone", "Park Avenue Logger" and "Hollywood Cowboy") that were distributed by RKO Radio. Hirliman sold O'Brien's contract to RKO, which then produced 18 series westerns starring O'Brien that ended when O'Brien went into the Navy at the outbreak of WW II. Long-time (past and future) O'Brien director David Howard served as Hirliman's Associate Producer on this film. "Windjammer" finds O'Brien as a subpoena server ordered to serve a subpoena on Brandon Evans (The Commondore) for a senate inquiry or lose his job. Posing as a playboy, he boards the Commodore's yacht during a yacht race, and the yacht is wrecked by a gun-running windjammer commanded by Captain Morgan (William Hall.) All hands are picked up by the windjammer, including the Commodore's daughter (played by Constance Worth) and put to work as galley slaves.

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  • 1933
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    The Squatter's Daughter

    The Squatter's Daughter

    6 1933 HD

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

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  • 1944
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    Cover Girl

    Cover Girl

    6.371 1944 HD

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

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  • 1943
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    G-men vs. the Black Dragon

    G-men vs. the Black Dragon

    5 1943 HD

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

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  • 1920
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    Fate's Plaything

    Fate's Plaything

    1 1920 HD

    Dolores gets a marriage proposal from the promising young doctor Lucas, but on the day of their marriage, she leaves him in the lurch and takes off with the South American dancer and adventurer Hugo Amadis. But Hugo treats her badly. Dolores leaves Hugo and begins a career as a dancer to make ends meet for her and her son. One day, the son gets sick, and the doctor who helps the child through the crisis is Doctor Lucas. Lucas and Delores decide to start over.

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  • 1938
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    The Wages of Sin

    The Wages of Sin

    1 1938 HD

    A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.

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  • 1943
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    Appointment in Berlin

    Appointment in Berlin

    6.7 1943 HD

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

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  • 1945
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    Sensation Hunters

    Sensation Hunters

    4.5 1945 HD

    A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.

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  • 1943
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    Klondike Kate

    Klondike Kate

    5.2 1943 HD

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

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  • 1943
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    Crime Doctor

    Crime Doctor

    6.2 1943 HD

    Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

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  • 1921
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    The Education of Nicky

    The Education of Nicky

    1 1921 HD

    Rich cousins marry after they are both bankrupted.

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  • 1944
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    Cyclone Prairie Rangers

    Cyclone Prairie Rangers

    1 1944 HD

    It's World War 2 and saboteurs are out to destroy the ranchers food crop. Steve Travis and sidekick Cannonball have been called in to investigate. Avoiding the attempts on his life by the gang, Steve uses a pair of eyeglasses to discover their leader, a supposedly deaf mute shoe repairman.

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  • 1945
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    Sagebrush Heroes

    Sagebrush Heroes

    1 1945 HD

    This Columbia western starring Charles Starrett finds Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) forming a radio show with Jimmy Wakely (Jimmy Wakely) and his Saddle Pals, and are in town for a rodeo. Reporter Connie Pearson (Constance Worth) persuades them to visit Marty Jones (Elvin Fields), a fatherless boy, who has been sent to a boy's home after stealing Steve's wallet, ran by Tom Goodwin (Forrest Taylor.) Marty tells Steve that the home is a phony and is a front for cattle rustlers. Steve passes the information on to Connie, who doesn't believe him, so he and Jimmy wire the ranch for sound. They are caught and Goodwin turns them over to Sheriff Barnes (Edmund Cobb), and then plans to skip the country

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  • 1949
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    Western Renegades

    Western Renegades

    5 1949 HD

    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 to investigate the killing, but the outlaw puts a stop to this by hiring a dance-hall dame to pose as the kids' long-lost mother. Johnny isn't fooled by this subterfuge nor is his sidekick.

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  • 1943
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    Dangerous Blondes

    Dangerous Blondes

    6 1943 HD

    Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.

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  • 1943
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    City Without Men

    City Without Men

    5 1943 HD

    A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.

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  • 1943
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    She Has What It Takes

    She Has What It Takes

    1 1943 HD

    Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.

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  • 1943
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    The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

    The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

    4.8 1943 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    Suspicion

    Suspicion

    7.129 1941 HD

    A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

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  • 1944
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    Frenchman's Creek

    Frenchman's Creek

    5.289 1944 HD

    An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.

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