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.

Biography

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. The marriage and drama of the divorce attracted enormous newspaper publicity in Australia. Denis O’Brien comments that even in 1939 "the Weekly was still dredging the Howarth saga" in its report on her latest film Mystery of the White Room (1939).

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

In 1947 Australian newspapers reported that she had been severely injured in a car accident and had undergone plastic surgery. Constance Worth died, aged 52, in Hollywood on 18 October 1963, an "ordinary housewife", reportedly from anemia. Ken G. Hall remarked "unhappy circumstances" surrounded her death.

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