Constance Dowling
Actor
- Born
- July 24, 1920 · New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- October 28, 1969 (age 49)
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".
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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
Acting13
- 1954Gog as Joanna Merritt
- 1950La strada finisce sul fiume as Barbara
- 1950Miss Italia as Lilly
- 1950Duel Without Honor as Olga
- 1949City of Pain as Lubiza
- 1948Mad About Opera as Margaret Jones
- 1947The Flame as Helen Anderson
- 1947Blind Spot as Evelyn Green
- 1946Boston Blackie and the Law as Dinah Moran
- 1946Black Angel as Mavis Marlowe
