The Constant Nymph
A teenage girl battles her sophisticated, older cousin for the love of a gifted composer.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 22, 2011
- Originally Released: 1943
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Peter Lorre, Charles Coburn & Alexis Smith | |
Performer: | May Whitty & Joyce Reynolds | |
Directed by | Edmund Goulding | |
Edited by | David Weisbart | |
Screenwriting by | Kathryn Scola, Margaret Kennedy & Basil Dean | |
Composition by | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | |
Cinematography by | Tony Gaudio | |
Art Direction by | Carl Jules Weyl | |
Produced by | Henry Blanke | |
Director of Photography: | Tony Gaudio |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 147
Rating: B --
This Hollywood romantic drama is star Joan Fontaine's favorite of all her films.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B- --
Joan Fontaine received her third and last Oscar nomination for this romantic melodrama, well played by Charles Boyer.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The Constant Nymph's most telling moments slip by rather than announce themselves.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Yet, apart from a self-consciously boisterous opening, I found the film moving.
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The Spectator
Description by OLDIES.com:
Unavailable for over sixty years, the lost classic returns at last. For many decades, the closest people could come to experiencing this timeless tale of love, tragedy and inspiration was through Erich Wolfgang Korngold's rousing, luscious and lauded score -- but no more! Now, all can open their hearts to The Constant Nymph. Joan Fontaine delivers one of her finest performances playing Tessa, a teenaged free spirit locked in battle with her complicated, sophisticated cousin Florence (Alexis Smith) over the love of Lewis (Charles Boyer), an impoverished, gifted composer. Lewis is married to Florence, but young Tessa loves Lewis so completely he finds himself drawn to her more and more. Tessa is soon transformed, first into Lewis' muse, and then into something more; while Florence's jealousies cage her in a competition with a child she can't hope to win. Peter Lorre adds to the magic, shining in a rare, sympathetic supporting role.
Product Description:
Warner Bros.' THE CONSTANT NYMPH was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in Britain in 1928 and 1933 by producer Michael Balcon. The plot was substantially the same in all three versions: A self-centered European musician (Charles Boyer) is idolized by a young Belgian girl (Joan Fontaine) with a serious heart condition. Though he is fond of the girl, the composer opts for a wealthy marriage to her socialite cousin (Alexis Smith)--and lives to regret the move. Peter Lorre, taking a respite from villainous roles, is quite effective as a philosophical family friend. Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold's six-minute symphonic tone poem for CONSTANT NYMPH was given class-A treatment in a specially recorded RCA Victor orchestration in 1972.
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- Sales Rank: 12,736
- UPC: 883316374450
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