Constance Worth
Nacimiento : 1912-08-19, Sydney, Australia
Muerte : 1963-10-18
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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.
Fake Ann Gordon
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Wife (uncredited)
Un maduro boxeador en decadencia, para demostrarse a sí mismo que todavía no está acabado, decide seguir boxeando, a pesar de la desaprobación de su mujer. Incluso su propio mánager, convencido de su derrota, apuesta contra él. Obtuvo excelentes críticas por las escenas de boxeo y por la vibrante interpretación de Robert Ryan.
Nan Raymond
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Irene
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.
Flo
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.
Blonde
En 1930 John Dillinger era un joven provinciano que iba de pueblo en pueblo en busca de su porvenir en el mundo de los negocios. Cuatro años más tarde termina siendo el criminal más buscado del mundo.
Ethel Hollingsworth
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.
Connie Pearson
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Lola
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Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
Una dama inglesa cae locamente enamorada de un pirata francés, tras ser capturada por éste en su casa ancestral de la costa de Cornualles.
Receptionist (uncredited)
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Lita
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
Betty Watson
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
Reporter
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Betty, Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist
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.
June Leslie
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Vivian Marsh
Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.
Elsie
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Linda Pavlo
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Mona Brooks
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
Un atractivo vividor coincide en el tren con una joven ingenua que acabará teniendo que pagarle el billete. Más adelante, vuelven a encontrarse en una fiesta y, tras un breve romance, ella decide casarse con él, a pesar de la oposición de su padre. Considerada por todos, incluida su familia, una solterona, está empeñada en demostrarles que alguien la puede amar.
Alma Barton
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
Marilyn Howard
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Sylvia Marbe
Bill O'Brien es un gángster que se asocia con una bailarina sin éxito para realizar una estafa que le permitiría resolver sus problemas económicos.
Ann Stokes
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Marjorie Benton
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.
Betty Selby
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, at her blonde, plumpish best) and put to work as galley slaves.
Jane Dunn
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Joan Enderby
A story of rival sheep stations and of the strong-willed squatter’s daughter who wants to unite them.
Chloe
Rich cousins marry after they are both bankrupted.
A farmer frames a petty officer for theft and confesses after falling over a cliff.
Dolores Blockett
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.
