
Constance Dowling
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Constance Dowling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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12 Credits
The Flame
as Helen Anderson
1947

Black Angel
as Mavis Marlowe
1946

Gog
as Joanna Merritt
1954

Miss Italia
as Lilly
1950

Up in Arms
as Mary Morgan
1944

Boston Blackie and the Law
as Dinah Moran
1946

The Well Groomed Bride
as Rita Sloane
1946

Blind Spot
as Evelyn Green
1947

Knickerbocker Holiday
as Tina Tienhoven
1944

Mad About Opera
as Margaret Jones
1948

Duel Without Honor
as Olga
1950

City of Pain
as Lubiza
1949