The Constant Nymph (1928)
February 20, 1928Release Date
The Constant Nymph (1928)
February 20, 1928Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Ivor Novello
Lewis Dodd
Mabel Poulton
Tessa Sanger
Frances Doble
Florence Churchill
Mary Clare
Linda Sanger
Georg Henrich
Albert Sanger
Dorothy Boyd
Pauline Sanger
Tony De Lungo
Roberto
Benita Hume
Antonia Sanger
Peter Evan Thomas
Ike
Yvonne Thomas
Kate Sanger
J.H. Roberts
Dr. Churchill
Clifford Heatherley
Sir Berkeley
Elsa Lanchester
Lady
Adrian Brunel
Director
Dorothy Farnum
Writer
Alma Reville
Writer
Margaret Kennedy
Theatre Play / Novel
Basil Dean
Theatre Play / Producer
Michael Balcon
Producer
Bertram Evans
Art Direction
James Wilson
Director of Photography
David W. Gobbett
Director of Photography
Willi Kiermeier
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
The Constant Nymph is a 1928 British silent film drama, directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton. This was the first film adaptation of the 1924 best-selling and controversial novel The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy and the 1926 stage play version written by Kennedy and Basil Dean. The theme of adolescent sexuality reportedly discomfited the British film censors, until they were reassured that lead actress Poulton was in fact in her 20s.
Location filming took place in the Austrian Tyrol, and the film proved a commercial and critical success, being named the best British feature film of 1928. Jo Botting of the British Film Institute notes: "The progression through the film is from light to darkness, from space to enclosure and from hope to despair."