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Constance Worth

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.

Early life and career

She was born Enid Joyce Howarth in Sydney, youngest of three daughters of businessman Moffatt Howarth and his wife Mary Ellen (nee Dumbrell). She was also known in Australia as "Joy." She attended Ascham School and a finishing school before developing a career on stage as Jocelyn Howarth, in Australia and New Zealand with J. C. Williamson Ltd.

Film career in Australia

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 th

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Constance Worth Biography

Date of Birth:
Aug 19, 1912Birth Place:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Constance Worth was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in her acting career, Worth landed roles in various films, including "Windjammer" (1937), the Douglas Fairbanks Jr. drama "Angels Over Broadway" (1940) and "Meet Boston Blackie" (1941). She also appeared in "Borrowed Hero" (1942). Her passion for acting continued to her roles in projects like "Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood" (1942), "City Without Men" (1943) and "Crime Doctor" (1943). She also appeared in "G-Men Vs. the Black Dragon" (1943). Toward the end of her career, she continued to act in the mystery "The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case" (1943) with Warner Baxter, "Sensation Hunters" (1945) and "The Kid Sister" (1945). She also appeared in "Why Girls Leave Home" (1945). Worth more recently acted in the mystery "Deadline at Dawn" (1946) with Susan Hayward. Worth passed away in October 1963 at the age of 51.

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Above: Constance Worth (Jocelyn Howarth) manages a smile while being made up during shooting of the utterly abysmal “The Wages of Sin”, her first film after the divorce from George Brent.

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Born Enid Joyce Howarth, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 19 August 1911. In Australia she was known as Joy Howarth and Jocelyn Howarth. In the US she used the stage name Constance Worth.
A talented and popular actress on stage in Australia and in several Australian films, she travelled to the US in 1936 to pursue a career in film. There has been a tradition of representing Howarth as an Australian pioneer in Hollywood. Perhaps, but her experiences also suggest she was frustrated by underwhelming roles in B films and poor treatment in the studio system. She never had the chance to shine, as she had in Australia. She died in Los Angeles, California USA on 18 October 1963, aged only 52. The IMDB suggests she appeared in 35 US films, sometimes in uncredited roles.
(See Note 2 below regarding the British actress Constance Worth)
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