(1935 - 17 September 1998) (his death) (2 children)
1937 walks into Dan Kelly's office at Universal and says, "Everybody asks me who my agent is. Do I need an agent?" He recommends Johnny Maschio, one of the best, if not the best, agent in Hollywood at the time. Within a couple of days she meets Johnny in the studio commissary and will later say, "...he was Italian and so gorgeous--I was so attracted to him!" The feeling is mutual, but he considers her much too young for him. He never becomes her agent, but his list of clients include Raymond Massey, Jimmy Stewart, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Orson Welles, Van Johnson, Gene Tierney, and Gregory Peck. In fact he was responsible for bringing Peck to Hollywood. "Greg was engaged at the time, but didn't have enough money to buy a ring, so Johnny gave him the money."
29 April 39
the press tells that she and John Maschio are eloping by airplane to Yuma, Arizona. He’s 36; she’s 19. They are accompanied by her mother in the private plane piloted by Max Constant, film stuntman. She is expected to report at Universal Studio for In Old California on May 1.
1 May 39
tells the press they married in a small Nevada town but declines to name the town
after marriage, Maschio guides her career. “Whether I had one person or another as my actual agent, it was always ‘Big Daddy‘ who guided my career. The way he explained it, he couldn’t very well go to someone as my agent and say, ‘Here is Constance Moore--the most beautiful, talented, wonderful actress in the whole world...’ when, in all actuality, he was talking about his own wife.”
she and Maschio settle in Beverly Hills with a lemon tree in their yard and a pet dachshund named Wolf. Maschio will work in public relations and later become a successful real estate broker. The couple is devoted to one another. Her half-sister Shirley Rastatter will later say their relationship was “like Ronnie and Nancy Reagan.”
Early May 39
reveals to the press that they will honeymoon in New York
May 40
columnist Jimmy Fidler tells: “The Connie Moore-John Maschio stork story was a false alarm...”
December 47
columnist Louella Parsons spots her and Maschio among the guests of a party thrown by Greer Garson
July 52
Louella Parsons returns to her: “One of life’s most embarrassing moments happened at the Connie Moore-Johnny Maschio party. Gary Cooper came in with Dusty Miller. Shortly after Pat Neal walked in but she carried the situation off with dignity...”
65
replaces Irene Hervey on “The Young Marrieds.” Future TCM host Robert Osborne signs for a couple of the episodes; he is absolutely determined to be an actor. However, acting is not his calling. He often flubs his lines, and she helps him recover. Decades later her husband Johnny writes Osborne at TCM about the film Laura, and Osborne replies: “You can have your Gene Tierney. As for me, I’ll never forget Constance for helping me out on ‘The Young Marrieds.’”
August 65
Louella Parsons reports: “John Maschio, of the Al Herd real estate firm, who made the eventual sale to wealthy developer John Morehart, tells me he is also the agent on the sale of (Huntington) Hartford’s Paradise Island ‘if’ they’re able to swing a gambling permit...”
67
makes her last appearance in a movie, an odd documentary called Spree, a.k.a. Las Vegas by Night, with Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay. The film is produced by her husband.
November 74
will be event chairman at the annual Expectations Christmas Luncheon of the Braille Institute Auxiliary held at the Beverly Hills Hotel on December 4
June 77
columnist Earl Wilson tells: “Actress Constance Moore (Mrs. John Maschio) phoned Earl Blackwell that she was stopping at the New York Athletic Club. ‘But that’s a men’s club,’ he told her. ‘I’m rooming,’ she said, ‘with my husband.’”
17 September 98
becomes the widow of Maschio, who dies at age 95 in Los Angeles