Constance Moore, 84, Versatile Actress
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Constance Moore, a versatile actress of Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s, died last Friday in Los Angeles. She was 84.
Moore played W.C. Fields’s loyal daughter, Victoria Whipsnade, in the 1939 classic “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man,” and appeared in dozens of other comedies, dramas, musicals, and westerns. She also appeared as Wilma Deering, the love interest in the 1939 “Buck Rogers,” and the only woman in the cast. She starred with Robert Young in a short-lived TV series (1961-62).
Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Moore grew up in Dallas with a strong ambition to be a singer.
Moore also appeared in such films as “Earl Carroll Vanities,” “Show Business,” “Take a Letter Darling,” “I Wanted Wings,” “Las Vegas Nights,” “Mutiny on the Blackhawk,” and “Prison Break.” She was also seen on Broadway in “By Jupiter,” starring alongside Ray Bolger.
She later sang with various big bands.
