Actor
Constance Dowling
Born July 24, 1920 in New York City, New York, USADied October 28, 196913 films
Constance Dowling (July 24, 1920 – October 28, 1969) was an American model turned actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Dowling had been involved in a long affair with married director Elia Kazan in New York. He couldn't bring himself to leave his wife and the affair ended when Dowling went to Hollywood under contract to Goldwyn. She was later linked with the famous Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese who committed suicide in 1950 after a lifelong depression aggravated, at one point, by having been rejected by Dowling who, in Pavese's poetry, is often linked to spring ("face of springtime"). One of his last poems is entitled "Death will come and she'll have your eyes".
In 1955, Dowling married film producer Ivan Tors, writer and producer of her last film. (Another source, published two years earlier, refers to Dowling and Tors as "honeymooning.") She then retired from acting, going on to have three sons and a foster child with Tors.
In early 1964, Dowling introduced John C. Lilly to LSD for the first time.
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13 films as actor- 1954GogJoanna Merritt
- 1950La strada finisce sul fiumeBarbara
- 1950Miss ItaliaLilly
- 1950Duel Without HonorOlga
- 1949City of PainLubiza
- 1948Mad About OperaMargaret Jones
- 1947The FlameHelen Anderson
- 1947Blind SpotEvelyn Green
- 1946Boston Blackie and the LawDinah Moran
- 1946Black AngelMavis Marlowe
- 1946The Well Groomed BrideRita Sloane
- 1944Knickerbocker HolidayTina Tienhoven
- 1944Up in ArmsMary Morgan