Constance Worth
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 19, 1912
Deathday: October 18, 1963
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The House in the Forest
1922-10-20
The House in the Forest
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-20
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Love in the Welsh Hills
1921-01-01
Love in the Welsh Hills
Overview: A farmer frames a petty officer for theft and confesses after falling over a cliff.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Deadline at Dawn
1946-03-18
Deadline at Dawn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-18
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Dillinger
1945-04-25
Dillinger
Overview: The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-25
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Angels Over Broadway
1940-10-02
Angels Over Broadway
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-02
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The Set-Up
1949-03-29
The Set-Up
Overview: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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Meet Boston Blackie
1941-02-20
Meet Boston Blackie
Overview: When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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The Dawn Express
1942-03-27
The Dawn Express
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Mystery of the White Room
1939-03-17
Mystery of the White Room
Overview: A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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China Passage
1937-03-12
China Passage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Why Girls Leave Home
1945-10-09
Why Girls Leave Home
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-09
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The Kid Sister
1945-02-06
The Kid Sister
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-06
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Let's Have Fun
1943-03-04
Let's Have Fun
Overview: When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-04
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Borrowed Hero
1941-12-05
Borrowed Hero
Overview: A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-05
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Criminals Within
1941-06-27
Criminals Within
Overview: A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
Genres: War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Windjammer
1937-08-06
Windjammer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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The Squatter's Daughter
1933-09-23
The Squatter's Daughter
Overview: A story of rival sheep stations and of the strong-willed squatter’s daughter who wants to unite them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Cover Girl
1944-03-22
Cover Girl
Overview: A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-22
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G-men vs. the Black Dragon
1943-01-16
G-men vs. the Black Dragon
Overview: Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-16
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Fate's Plaything
1920-05-10
Fate's Plaything
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-10
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The Wages of Sin
1938-07-14
The Wages of Sin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-14
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Appointment in Berlin
1943-07-15
Appointment in Berlin
Overview: The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-15
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Sensation Hunters
1945-10-12
Sensation Hunters
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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Klondike Kate
1943-12-16
Klondike Kate
Overview: A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
Genres: Action Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
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Crime Doctor
1943-06-22
Crime Doctor
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-22
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The Education of Nicky
1921-03-31
The Education of Nicky
Overview: Rich cousins marry after they are both bankrupted.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-31
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Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944-11-09
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-09
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Sagebrush Heroes
1945-02-01
Sagebrush Heroes
Overview: 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
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-01
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Western Renegades
1949-10-08
Western Renegades
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-08
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Dangerous Blondes
1943-09-23
Dangerous Blondes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-23
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City Without Men
1943-01-14
City Without Men
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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She Has What It Takes
1943-04-15
She Has What It Takes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943-12-09
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
Overview: The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-09
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Suspicion
1941-11-14
Suspicion
Overview: A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to suspect that he intends to kill her to collect her life insurance.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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Frenchman's Creek
1944-09-20
Frenchman's Creek
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-20
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