appearance in 1959. Personal life Smith married English film director Bryan Forbes in 1951; they divorced in 1955. In 1962 she was sentenced to three months in prison for stabbing her boyfriend, the documentary maker and film historian Paul Rotha. On 4 February 1968, she stabbed Rotha for the second time and was charged with attempted murder. She and Rotha married in 1974, and broke up in 1978. Smith tried several times again to kill herself. Her last decades were spent, dissipated, in and out of hospitals. When able to get herself together for brief periods, she worked as a cleaner. Death Smith died on June 30, 2003 in Islington, London. She was 74. Partial filmography Jassy (1947) – Young Lady (uncredited) Brighton Rock (1947) – Singer (uncredited) Easy Money (1948) – Wilson's Secretary (segment The Atkins Story) (uncredited) The Calendar (1948) – Airport Attendant (uncredited) To the Public Danger (1948, Short) – Girl in pub watching billiards game (uncredited) Murder at the Windmill (1949) – Cloakroom Girl The Perfect Woman (1949) – Receptionist Now Barabbas (1949) – Jean Trottie True (1949) – Gaiety Girl (uncredited) Room to Let (1950) – Molly Nusgrave The Mudlark (1950) – Kate Noonan Don't Say Die (1950) – Red Biddy The 13th Letter (1951) – Cora Laurent Blackmailed (1951) – Nurse Anne I'll Get You for This (1951) – Nina Red Skies of Montana (1952) – Peg Mason Lure of the Wilderness (1952) – Noreen McGowan Taxi (1953) – Mary Turner Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953) – Clara MacDougal Man in the Attic (1953) – Lily Bonner Tiger by the Tail (1954) – Jane Claymore Impulse (1954) – Lila The Big Tip Off (1955) – Penny Conroy Un po' di cielo (1955) – Nora The Violent Patriot (1956) – Emma Caldana Addio per sempre! (1958) – Lucia Conspiracy of the Borgias (1959) – Lucrezia Borgia Knight Without a Country (1959) – Laura (final film role) Radio appearances References External links Constance Smith in 'Actors' file at Limerick City Library, Ireland 1929 births 2003 deaths 20th Century Studios contract players Expatriate actresses in the United States Irish expatriates in the United States Irish film actresses Actresses from Limerick (city)