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Constance Dowling Profile
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| 24 July 20 | is born in New York City. Her sister will become actress Doris Dowling. |
| Early 40s | works at the New Theatre School to pay for her acting classes; there she meets Shelley Winters and they become good friends |
| auditions with Shelley to become a Copa Girl and gets the job for about a month. She will remember it being worse than modeling. |
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| she and Shelley end up as ushers for $1 a performance at the Belasco Theater |
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| she and Shelley occasionally work during the cocktail hour at Schrafft's, where they get their dinners free |
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| 11 September 40 - 2 January 41 | stars in Al Jolson’s last Broadway show, Hold on to Your Hats, at the Shubert Theatre |
| 30 October 40 - 3 January 42 | stars at Broadway’s 46th Street Theatre in Panama Hattie |
| 44 | while filming Knickerbocker Holiday with Nelson Eddy, he doesn’t want her to look into his eyes when they do a scene together and insists she look at his forehead instead |
| ? | hates being a Goldwyn Girl |
| 45 | Goldwyn drops her in favor of newcomer Virginia Mayo |
| has a very posh apartment on North Sycamore |
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| entertains at the Hollywood Canteen and does USO shows at hospitals |
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| starts a long, painful love affair with married director Elia Kazan, who can't give her up nor divorce his wife |
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| 47 | moves to Rome with her sister, actress Doris Dowling. They are the first Hollywood actresses to work in Italy permanently. |
| Late 40s | makes a brief trip back to New York. There she stays at the Algonquin Hotel and meets Shelley; they flirt with Broadway playboys and sports columnists. |
| dates old friends like Stanley Prager and some famous postwar novelists and playwrights |
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| ? | while in Rome, she learns to speak Italian fluently, has a beautiful apartment, and mingles with the intelligentsia of Europe: Sartre, Moravia, Hemingway, Somerset Maugham, Robert Capa, and George Bernard Shaw |
| ? | starts a torrid love affair with famous writer Cesare Pavese |
| 27 August 50 | Pavese commits suicide with sleeping pills after the love affair ends; a big scandal follows. Pavese fatally linked love to morbidity. His final poetry collection, found on his desk after death, is significantly entitled "Death will Come and (She) Will Have Your Eyes." “Death," a feminine noun in Italian, is associated with Constance. |
| 51 | returns to the States |
| 51 | becomes sister-in-law to band leader Artie Shaw, who marries her sister Doris |
| c. 52 | hangs around the Actors Studio and lives in a small apartment on the East Side of New York |
| Shelley convinces her to return to Los Angeles, where her family is waiting for her, and to try to resume her Hollywood career. It takes her about 3 hours to pack all her belongings and close her apartment. Shelley changes her first-class ticket to two tourist-class passages. |
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| 52 | is originally chosen for the part for which Colette Marchand will be nominated for an Academy Award in Moulin Rouge |
| ? | marries Ivan Tors, a Hungarian-born writer and producer. They will have four sons. |
| 11 September 54 | her son Michael Anthony is born in Los Angeles |
| 27 December 55 | her son Steven Lawrence is born in Los Angeles |
| 26 January 57 | her son Peter A. is born in Los Angeles |
| 14 April 61 | her son David I. is born in Los Angeles |
| 60s | works as a guide at the Dolphin Laboratory in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands |
| 28 October 69 | as Constance D. Tors, she dies at age 49 in Los Angeles, California, of cardiac arrest. Her husband and sons are surviving. |
| Author: | Anonymous |
| Sources: www.Ancestry.com | |
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| Links: Filmography | |