Profile
Constance Worth
Australian Actor
Female
Born
Aug 19, 1912
Died
Oct 18, 1963
Constance Worth was an Australian actress who became a Hollywood star in the late 1930s.
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Constance Worth.
CHILDHOOD
1912
Birth
Born on August 19, 1912.
TWENTIES
1933
20 Years Old
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.”
1937
24 Years Old
In May 1937 she married US actor George Brent, but after only a few weeks they separated, and a divorce was granted the same year.
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1938
25 Years Old
Her next role was in Willis Kent's 1938 exploitation quickie, The Wages of Sin, playing a young woman lured into prostitution.
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In mid 1939 she returned to act on stage in Australia, but went back to the US before the end of the year.
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THIRTIES
1946
33 Years Old
In January 1946 she was again in newspapers, cited in divorce proceedings by the wife of Hollywood scriptwriter W. A. Pierce.
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1947
34 Years Old
In 1947 Australian newspapers reported that she had been severely injured in a car accident and had undergone plastic surgery. Constance Worth died, aged 51, in Hollywood on 18 October 1963, an “ordinary housewife”, reportedly from anemia.
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1949
36 Years Old
Her last film was a minor role in the 1949 Johnny Mack Brown western Western Renegades.
FORTIES
1961
48 Years Old
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.
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FIFTIES
1963
51 Years Old
Died on October 18, 1963.
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