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The Constant Nymph is a 1943 romantic drama film starring Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Brenda Marshall, Charles Coburn, May Whitty, and Peter Lorre with a famous score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
The Constant Nymph is a 1924 novel by Margaret Kennedy. It tells how a teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who eventually marries her cousin. It explores the protagonists' complex family histories, focusing on class, education and creativity.
- Margaret Kennedy
- 1924
The Constant Nymph: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Brenda Marshall. The daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor (Montagu Love) is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband (Charles Boyer), a handsome composer.
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- Drama, Music, Mystery
- Edmund Goulding
- 1943-07-10
The Constant Nymph (1924) was Margaret Kennedy’s most commercially successful novel, spawning both a play featuring Noel Coward and a film starring one of my favourite actresses, Joan Fontaine.
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- Paperback
- Margaret Kennedy
Aug 7, 2013 · Concentrating on Joan Fontaine's wonderful performance as teenage Tessa in The Constant Nymph (1943) with a look at the literary origins of the story and resulting complications in making the title available for public consumption.
Fourteen-year-old Tessa ( Joan Fontaine) is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd ( Charles Boyer ), a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her.
The daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor adores a promising composer (Charles Boyer), who is quite fond of the adolescent.
- Drama
