Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

haniaelrawy What I like most in this movie is the wonderful chemistry between Charles Boyer and Joan Fontaine .Though I didn't like the strange idea of the movie but I enjoyed Boyer's gay spirit in his scenes with Tessa and Paula.He always lit the screen with joy and cheerfulness and I liked his fatherly way of dealing with them.Joan Fontaine was so romantic, innocent, and delicate.Alixis Smith was also impressive in her performance but it was only near the end of the movie.

wc1996-428-366101 I watched about 45 minutes of this long lost cult classic more out of curiosity than anything else. I couldn't help think it was the strangest film I ever saw. Nothing seemed to work - at all. I couldn't make head or tail of the characters or the story and all I kept thinking was why there was so much running around by barefoot girls. Finally, when I realized that Joan Fontaine of all people was one of the scampering girls I was really shocked. This was the girl from Rebecca? No way Jose! But yes it was and so I kept watching just to see why in heaven's name Joan Fontaine was cast as a starry-eyed teen who would go all weak in the knees the moment Charles Boyer showed up. Finally, I stopped watching and went to TCM to read the full synopsis of the film and learned everything I needed to know. It was written in 1924 by a woman and apparently became an instant classic women's tear-jerker which was made into films and plays and heaven knows what else. That was enough for me not to go back to the film.

bkoganbing In this last and only American version of The Constant Nymph the omnipresent Code had to be dealt with rather delicately in order for this film to get to the big screen. It involves nothing less than a middle aged man falling in love with an underage girl. No wonder the original casting of Errol Flynn was scratched by Jack Warner.In 1943 as Robert Osborne said rather delicately himself, Flynn was having some 'legal problems'. He sure was, he was facing a charge of statutory rape and was fighting for his career. No wonder he was scratched and Charles Boyer substituted as the pianist/composer. Even without the rape charge I don't Flynn would have been suitable casting in that role in any event.But it was Joan Fontaine who got the Oscar recognition with a nomination for Best Actress playing a teenager of barely legal age who has a congenital heart problem and who charms Boyer. In the original novel and the play made from it, Boyer's character actually runs off with the Fontaine character.Some of the same territory was tread on by Billy Wilder in The Major And The Minor, but Ginger Rogers was only pretending to be an adolescent.Boyer meets Fontaine and her siblings Brenda Marshall, Jean Muir, and Joyce Reynolds at the home of their father Montagu Love. When he dies the girls go to their uncle Charles Coburn to live, except Marshall who marries Peter Lorre. That in itself is something, how often does Peter Lorre get the girl? Boyer marries Coburn's daughter Alexis Smith, but Smith senses something wrong and develops a jealousy of Fontaine. Turns out that while Boyer doesn't do anything, she's right to be suspicious.The novel by Margaret Kennedy was turned into a play by Basil Dean and debuted in London with no less than Noel Coward and Edna Best in the leads. It ran 148 performances on Broadway in the 1926-27 season and two film versions across the pond were made, a silent with Ivor Novello and another sound version that starred Brian Aherne who would later marry Joan Fontaine. I'd be curious to see how the whole May/September romance was handled there.Fontaine lost the Oscar that year to newcomer Jennifer Jones who was also playing a juvenile of a different kind in The Song Of Bernadette.The Constant Nymph is a strange yet curiously winning film. One wonders how the story would be done today in a film.

edwagreen Joan Fontaine as a child is a little hard to take. True, that she pulls it off. After all, she received a best actress Oscar nomination for it in 1943.The picture is a heartbreak where Charles Boyer marries Alexis Smith, who really steals the picture with her acting, after his best friend dies suddenly and Smith and her father, the usual doting Charles Coburn come for the children. Problem is that Boyer and Fontaine, the child, are really stuck on each other.The sad ending will tug at you. Amazing that Peter Lorre, Dame May Witty and Eduardo Ciannelli are given so little to do in the film. Their acting talents are wasted here.