Constance DowlingFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Discovered by producer Samuel Goldwyn in Elia Kazan's flop play The Strings, My Lord, Are False (1942), hazel-eyed Constance Dowling was ushered into the screen version of Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) and Danny Kaye's Up in Arms (1944). But there was something icy and disturbing about her that...Read More

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Gog

Actors: Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: When two scientists at a top-secret government installation devoted to space research are killed -- in their own test chamber, seemingly by an experiment gone awry -- Dr. David Sheppard (Richard Egan) is sent out from Washington to investigate. Sheppard mixes easily enough with the somewhat Read More

1954
Una Voce Nel Tuo Cuore

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Gino Bechi, Beniamino Gigli, Constance Dowling

Synopsis: Voice in Your Heart (Une Voce nel tuo Cuore) is purely and simply a showcase for the splendid
singing talents of Beniamino Gigli and Gino Bechi. The main plot concerns the romance between war-correspondent Paul (Vittorio Gassman) and cabaret-singer Helen (Fiorella C. Fionti). Paul encourages Read More

1952
Stormbound

Actors: Constance Dowling, Andrea Checchi, Al Silvani, Bianca Doria, Mirko Ellis

Synopsis: Failing to make a dent in Hollywood, actress Constance Dowling was more successful in Italian films. Constance heads the cast of Stormbound as a plucky girl reporter. During torrential downpour, our heroine finds herself sharing a shack with notorious bandit Aldo Silvani-the very man she'd been Read More

1951
Miss Italia

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Richard Ney, Constance Dowling, Luisa Rossi

Synopsis: Real-life beauty contest winner Gina Lollobrigida is appropriately cast in Miss Italia. The first half of the film is a dramatization of the events leading up to Italy's number-one beauty pageant. The final portion consists of footage from the actual event. Inevitably, the real thing is more Read More

2/15/50
Duello Senza Onore

Actors: Annette Bach, Constance Dowling, Massimo Girotti, Ave Ninchi

Synopsis: Constance Dowling, the American actress who gained international celebrity through her appearance in the Italian film Bitter Rice, is the villainess in Duel Without Honor. The heroine is Annette Bach, who renounces convent life to move back in with her banker father (Massimo Girotti). Read More

1950
La Citta Dolente

Actors: Luigi Tosi, Gianni Rizzo, Constance Dowling

Synopsis: Luigi Tosi, best known to American audiences as the priggish romantic lead in Laurel & Hardy's final feature Atoll K (1951), heads the cast of the Italian City of Pain. The film is set in the border town of Pola. In 1947, the citizens of this tiny community were given a choice: either head to the Read More

1949
Follie per l'Opera

Actors: Carlo Campanini, Constance Dowling, Aroldo Tieri, Al Silvani

Synopsis: The leading lady of the Italian Mad About Opera was billed in the English-language prints as Lollo Brigida. By the time the film was reissued in the mid-1950s, this gaffe had been corrected, and Gina Lollobrigida received proper screen credit. The story details the misadventures of a group of Read More

9/29/48
The Flame

Actors: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford, Henry Travers

Synopsis: Carlotta Duval (Vera Ralston) is willing to help her boyfriend George McAllister (John Carroll) get his hands on his ailing brother Barry's (Robert Paige) fortune. She is willing to marry Barry, knowing full well that he has only been given a few months to live. And when she deviates from the Read More

1947
Addio Mimi!

Actors: Marta Eggerth, Jan Kiepura, Janis Carter, Douglas Dumbrille, Marc Platt

Synopsis: The Italian-American Her Wonderful Lie is based on the novel Latin Quarter by Murger. This literary work is better known as the source for the Puccini opera La Boheme, and indeed, Her Wonderful Life is a modernized adaptation of the Puccini classic, with a few songs from other operas thrown in for Read More

1947
Blind Spot

Synopsis: Chester Morris plays a mystery writer who bears a grudge against his publisher. Morris is mad enough to get blind drunk, but is he mad enough to kill? When the publisher is indeed murdered, Morris tops the suspect list. To clear himself, he uses his own skills as a writer of whodunits to ascertain Read More

1947
Boston Blackie and the Law

Actors: Chester Morris, Trudy Marshall, Constance Dowling, Richard Lane, George E. Stone

Synopsis: This twelfth entry in Columbia's "Boston Blackie" series is essentially a remake of 1942's Alias Boston Blackie. In the original, a falsely accused convict (Larry Parks) escapes while Blackie (Chester Morris) is putting on a magic show for a men's prison, prompting Blackie to stop the escapee Read More

1946
The Black Angel

Actors: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the strong performance by lead actor Dan Duryea Alcoholic musician Martin Blair (Duryea) becomes the prime suspect when his cheating wife is murdered, until it is determined that he was "sleeping Read More

1946
The Well-Groomed Bride

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, Sonny Tufts, James Gleason, Constance Dowling

Synopsis: There's only one magnum of French champagne left in all of San Francisco, and both Navy lieutenant Briggs (Ray Milland) and bride-to-be Margie (Olivia De Havilland) want it. Briggs needs the magnum to christen a new aircraft carrier. Margie craves the bottle as the centerpiece for her upcoming Read More

1946
Up in Arms

Actors: Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Constance Dowling, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing Kaye with Eddie Cantor. If true, it may be because Kaye's first starring film for Goldwyn, Up in Arms, was a remake of Cantor's Whoopee--which in turn was a musical version Read More

1944
Knickerbocker Holiday

Actors: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Ernest Cossart, Shelley Winters, Johnnie Davis, Percy Kilbride

Synopsis: The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of Read More

1944