From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaConstance 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 Halls films The Squatters 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 Howarths 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, Smiths Weekly raved enthusiastically about the young actress; Young Joy Howarth who leapt into publicity when she became the Squatters 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 Kents 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 Hitchcocks 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.
Film 1922
Film 1921
Nan Raymond
Film 1946
Blonde
Film 1945
Sylvia Marbe
Film 1940
Wife (uncredited)
Film 1949
Marilyn Howard
Film 1941
Linda Pavlo
Film 1942
Ann Stokes
Film 1939
Flo
Film 1945
Ethel Hollingsworth
Film 1945
Diana Crawford
Film 1943
Mona Brooks
Film 1941
Alma Barton
Film 1941
Joan Enderby
Film 1933
Receptionist (uncredited)
Film 1944
Dolores Blockett
Film 1920
Marjorie Benton
Film 1938
English Girl (uncredited)
Film 1943
Irene
Film 1945
Lita
Film 1943
Betty, Ordway's Nurse-Receptionist
Film 1943
Chloe
Film 1921
Lola
Film 1944
Connie Pearson
Film 1945
Fake Ann Gordon
Film 1949
Reporter (uncredited)
Film 1943
Elsie
Film 1943
June Leslie
Film 1943
Mrs. Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
Film 1941
Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
Film 1944