The Constant Nymph 181326 200724283 2008-03-25T04:36:10Z Someguy1221 3315180 clean up using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{Infobox Book <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = The Constant Nymph | title_orig = | translator = | image = [[Image:The Constant Nymph.jpg|200px]] | image_caption = | author = [[Margaret Kennedy]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = [[UK|Britain]] | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = [[Novel]] | publisher = [[Heinemann (book publisher)|Heinemann]] | release_date = [[1924 in literature|1924]] | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]]) | pages = 344 pp | isbn = NA | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''The Constant Nymph''''' is a [[novel]] by [[Margaret Kennedy]] which tells the story of a teenage girl who falls in love with a family friend who eventually marries her cousin. The two girls show mutual jealousy over their common love for the man. The novel was a best-seller after it was first published, becoming the first novel of a genre that became might be called 'Bohemian'. A significant part of its success was due to its (for the time) shocking sexual content, describing, as it does, scenes of adolescent sexuality and noble savagery in the Austrian Tyrol. The novel was adapted into a [[Play (theatre)|play]] by Kennedy and [[Basil Dean]]. ==Film, TV or theatrical adaptations== The novel was first adapted for film in [[1928 in film|1928]] by [[Adrian Brunel]] and [[Alma Reville]] and directed by Brunel and Basil Dean. It starred [[Ivor Novello]], [[Mabel Poulton]] and [[Benita Hume]]. It was again adapted in [[1934 in film|1934]], adapted by [[Dorothy Farnum]] and directed by Dean. It featured [[Victoria Hopper]], [[Brian Aherne]] and [[Leonora Corbett]]. It was adapted for film a third time in [[1943 in film|1943]]. It starred [[Charles Boyer]], [[Joan Fontaine]], [[Brenda Marshall]], [[Alexis Smith]], [[Charles Coburn]], Dame [[May Whitty]] and [[Peter Lorre]]. It was adapted by [[Kathryn Scola]] and directed by [[Edmund Goulding]]. Fontaine was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]. <!-- Joan Fontaine --> ==External links== *{{imdb title|id=0018791|title=The Constant Nymph (1928)}} *{{imdb title|id=0024998|title=The Constant Nymph (1934)}} *{{imdb title|id=0035751|title=The Constant Nymph (1943)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Constant Nymph, The}} [[Category:1924 novels]] [[Category:British novels]] [[Category:1928 films]] [[Category:1934 films]] [[Category:1943 films]] [[Category:British plays]] [[Category:Black and white films]] [[Category:American films]] [[Category:British films]] [[Category:Novels by Margaret Kennedy]] [[fr:Tessa, la nymphe au cœur fidèle]]