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Constance Dowling

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
13

Gender
Female

Birthday
July 24, 1920 (105 years old)

Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA

Constance Dowling

Biography

Constance Dowling (July 24, 1920 – October 28, 1969) was an American model turned actress of the 1940s and 1950s.

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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Known For

Acting

1954Gogas Joanna Merritt
1950La strada finisce sul fiumeas Barbara
1950Miss Italiaas Lilly
1950Duel Without Honoras Olga
1949City of Painas Lubiza
1948Mad About Operaas Margaret Jones
1947The Flameas Helen Anderson
1947Blind Spotas Evelyn Green
1946Boston Blackie and the Lawas Dinah Moran
1946Black Angelas Mavis Marlowe
1946The Well Groomed Brideas Rita Sloane
1944Knickerbocker Holidayas Tina Tienhoven
1944Up in Armsas Mary Morgan

Production