Constance Dowling
| Constance Dowling | |
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Andrea Checchi and Costance Dowling in Stormbound (1950)
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| Born |
July 24, 1920 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 28, 1969 (aged 49) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Years active | 1944-1955 |
| Spouse(s) |
Ivan Tors (m.1955-1969) (her death) (4 children) |
Constance Dowling (July 24, 1920 - October 28, 1969) was an American model turned actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Born in New York City, Dowling was a model and chorus girl before moving to California in 1943. She had two brothers, Richard Dowling and Robert Dowling, and was the elder sister of actress Doris Dowling. She attended Wadleigh High School for Girls in New York City.
Dowling was a dancer at the Paradise nightclub in New York City, a job that she obtained by lying about her age to her employer and lying about the job to her mother.
Prior to her move to Hollywood, she appeared in several Broadway productions, including Quiet City, Liliom,Panama Hattie (with sister Doris), Hold On To Your Hats, and The Strings, My Lord, Are False.
Dowling—promoted by press agents of producer Samuel Goldwyn as three-dimensional ("she can sing, she can dance and she can act")—began her screen career appearing in Up in Arms (1944) for Samuel Goldwyn. At the time, newspaper columnist Sheilah Graham reported that Danny Kaye "was hoping for a big movie name to star opposite him ... but boss Sam Goldwyn thinks otherwise and has signed" Dowling. In the same year, she appeared opposite Nelson Eddy in Knickerbocker Holiday,
In 1946, newspaper columnist Hedda Hopper reported that Dowling had signed a long-term contract with Eagle-Lion Films. Soon after having appeared in The Well-Groomed Bride (1946) and Black Angel (1946), she was loaned to Columbia Pictures to appear in Boston Blackie and the Law.
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