Constance Worth
Oyuncu · 1912 – 1963 · Sydney, Australia
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.
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Film7.1GizemRomantikA sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Film5.7DramSuçIn 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.
Why Girls Leave Home
1945 · 6 votes
Film5.2SuçThe Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943 · 6 votes
Film6.4MüzikKomediRita Hayworth ve Gene Kelly'nin oynadığı müzikalde, bir Broadway yıldızı olmak isteyen Rusty Parker'ın hikayesi anlatılıyor. 1944 yapımı müzikalin yönetmeni ise Charles Vidor. Gece kulüplerinde çalışan bir kadının yaşadığı ilginç maceraları anlatan ‘‘Kapak Kızı’’, müzikal filmlerinin dönüm noktası olan Oscarlı bir yapıt.
Film7.4DramSuçExpecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
The Set-Up
1949 · 184 votes
Film9.0SuçGizemA doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Mystery of the White Room
1939 · 1 votes
Film6.7AksiyonJapanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.
G-men vs. the Black Dragon
1943 · 3 votes
Film9.0KomediFay Weston, 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.
She Has What It Takes
1943 · 1 votes
Film6.2GizemGerilimA 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.
Deadline at Dawn
1946 · 36 votes
Film5.8RomantikMaceraAn 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.
Frenchman's Creek
1944 · 23 votes
Film6.3KomediSuçMystery 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.
Dangerous Blondes
1943 · 7 votes
Film5.9DramAksiyonThe life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
Dillinger
1945 · 36 votes
Film9.0KomediWhen a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.
Let's Have Fun
1943 · 1 votes
Film6.4SuçRobert 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.
Crime Doctor
1943 · 14 votes
Film5.9DramSuçSmall-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.
Angels Over Broadway
1940 · 31 votes
Film5.7SuçDramA 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.
City Without Men
1943 · 3 votes
Film6.5DramIn a small coastal town, young clergyman Cyril Maitland is involved in a tragedy that could ruin his rising career. After secretly impregnating his lover, Alma Lee, a violent struggle ensues with her enraged father, leaving the older man dead. Maitland denies responsibility and allows his close friend, Dr. Henry Everard, to be found guilty on false evidence and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Two decades later, as Maitland rises to prominence in the church, a bitter Everard is finally released, forcing the church leader to confront his decades of silence and guilt as his old friend seeks ultimate revenge.
The Silence of Dean Maitland
1934 · 2 votes
Film6.3MaceraSuçAmericans 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.
China Passage
1937 · 5 votes
Film5.5AksiyonDramA young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
Klondike Kate
1943 · 6 votes
Film7.1DramSavaşThe "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Appointment in Berlin
1943 · 6 votes
Film3.7DramA 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.
The Wages of Sin
1938 · 3 votes
Film5.9BelgeselBefore the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.
That's Sexploitation!
2013 · 23 votes
Film5.1AksiyonMaceraA 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.
The Dawn Express
1942 · 8 votes
Film5.5DramSuçA struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Borrowed Hero
1941 · 4 votes