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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.
Most Popular Constance Worth Trailers
Total trailers found: 37
17 March 1939
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
09 October 1945
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer.
12 October 1945
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.
09 December 1943
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
08 October 1949
Brown's principal antagonist this time is the town boss, an outlaw who has killed the community's leading citizen.
27 June 1941
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
05 December 1941
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
20 October 1922
Elder brother, Adam Andinnian, is secretly married to Rose Turner. To defend her from a man who is stalking her and making lecherous advances, Adam shoots him and is sentenced to life in prison in a penal colony.
01 February 1945
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.
23 September 1943
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them.
06 August 1937
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.
14 November 1941
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts.
22 March 1944
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
06 February 1945
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.
27 March 1942
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use.
15 July 1943
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
29 March 1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
14 January 1943
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.
20 February 1941
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
09 November 1944
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.
04 March 1943
When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.
15 April 1943
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.
12 March 1937
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco.
16 January 1943
Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.
25 June 2013
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history.
16 December 1943
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
25 April 1945
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
12 May 1934
Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his career.
23 September 1933
A story of rival sheep stations and of the strong-willed squatter’s daughter who wants to unite them.
20 September 1944
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.
22 June 1943
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.
18 March 1946
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.
02 October 1940
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife.
01 January 1921
A farmer frames a petty officer for theft and confesses after falling over a cliff.
14 July 1938
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.
31 March 1921
Rich cousins marry after they are both bankrupted.
10 May 1920
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.
