The Constant Nymph (1928 film)

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 bestselling and controversial novel The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy. 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.

Young composer Lewis Dodd Novello travels to Austria to visit his mentor Albert Sanger Georg Henrich. He meets Sangers teenage daughters Tessa Poulton, Antonia Benita Hume, and Pauline Dorothy Boyd and Sangers third wife Linda Mary Clare, who does not appear to be liked by Sangers daughters. The atmosphere is jovial and celebratory, until Sanger dies very suddenly.Lewis contacts the girls uncle in Cambridge, who comes to Austria accompanied by his daughter Florence Frances Doble. After a whirlwind courtship Lewis proposes to Florence, who eagerly accepts his offer of marriage. Tessa is distraught at the news. It is decided that Tessa and Pauline will be sent to a boarding school in England. Meanwhile Lewis and Florence attempt to settle down in London, but find that in the home setting things are very different and Lewis comes to feel trapped by the superficiality of London society and the realisation of his wifes ambitious, pushy nature. ........

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