Constance Worth

Constance Worth Actress - Born August 19, 1913 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Died October 18, 1963 in Los Angeles County, California, USA

Birth Name Jocelyn Howarth

Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini Bio (1) Australian leading lady of 40's B films. Brought over by RKO they dropped her after her first two American features. She spent three years at Columbia then freelanced mostly in poverty row thrillers and westerns. She was briefly married to the actor George Brent.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Simpson (jims@crusaid.org.uk)

William A. Pierce (1938 - 18 October 1963) (her death)

George Brent (10 May 1937 - 7 December 1937) (divorced)

Attended St. Gabriel's School and Asheam College.

Father Moffat Howarth was a banker.

Constance was in a severe car wreck while traveling in Australia in 1947.

Was named in a divorce suit between film writer William Pierce and his wife Wilma Pierce.in 1946 . A raid was conducted at the home of Ms. Worth where she was found nude and Mr. Pierce was in a bathrobe. Both participants claimed nothing was going on and that they were just close friends. Chicago Daily Tribune, Thursday January 10, 1946 page 17.

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 1930's.

Constance Worth (born Enid Joyce Howarth; 19 August 1911 – 18 October 1963) was an Australian actress who became a Hollywood star in the late 1930s. She was also known as Jocelyn Howarth.

Personal life On 10 May 1937, she married Irish actor George Brent in Mexico after a courtship of six weeks. After only a few weeks, they separated, and a divorce was granted the same year. Brent sought an annulment claiming that the marriage in Mexico was not legal. The case went to trial in August 1937 and was highly publicized, and Worth broke down in tears during proceedings. The court ruled the marriage was legal in September. She sued for divorce in November, and it was granted in December.

The marriage and drama of the divorce attracted enormous newspaper publicity in Australia. Denis O’Brien comments that even in 1939 "the Weekly still was dredging the Howarth saga" in its report on her latest film Mystery of the White Room (1939). "I didn't get a penny", she declared in 1945, "though I could have demanded $120,000 as my share of George's community property. But I was too proud then to accept money from a man who didn't want me. I'd not be so proud now."

In January 1946, she was again in newspapers, cited in divorce proceedings by the wife of Hollywood scriptwriter William A. Pierce. Both denied any impropriety, but within a year of his divorce, they married.

In August 1947, Australian newspapers reported that she had been severely injured in a car accident and had undergone plastic surgery.

Death Constance Worth died, aged 52, in Hollywood on 18 October 1963, an "ordinary housewife," reportedly from anemia. Ken Hall remarked that "unhappy circumstances" surrounded her death.

She occasionally is mistaken for a British silent-era stage and film actress of the same name, active from 1919 to 1922.

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