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Constance Smith (7 February 1929 – 30 June 2003) was an Irish film actress, and contract player of 20th Century Fox in the 1950s.
Constance Smith. Actress: Man in the Attic. Strikingly attractive, but troubled Irish leading lady of the 1950's, born to a struggling family in Limerick. Constance's is, perhaps, one of the more lurid and tragic tales of a promising career ending up on the skids.
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Jul 4, 2013 · DUBBED the ‘new Grace Kelly’, Irish actress Constance Smith was a big-screen starlet before drink and drug addiction led her to an impoverished death 10 years ago.
Jan 8, 2013 · Strikingly attractive, but troubled Irish actress, Constance Smith, was born in 46 Wolfe Tone Street, Limerick on 7 February 1929. The eldest of 11 children (many of whom passed away in infancy), her father Sylvester Smith, a native of Dublin, was a foot soldier in the Irish Army.
Mar 25, 2022 · Constance Smith was not unlike the eponymous Richard Harris, a Limerick native and more specifically, a hellraiser on an epic scale. But hellraising, drunken brawls and fighting were always the purview of men… until Constance came along.
May 12, 2013 · The Limerick-born Constance Smith, whom Forbes married in 1951, rose to the heights in early Fifties Hollywood – including co-presenting the 1952 Oscars ceremony – but was to die an alcoholic ...
Jan 2, 2019 · The tragic story of Limerick-born actress Constance Smith, who made over 30 movies in the 1950s but whose life ended in poverty and despair, is the subject of a major documentary to be shown on TG4...
