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  • The Nymph (1916)
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The Nymph (1916)
Short | Short, Drama
Strangers never came to their island home, and the girl lived there happily, "a child of nature." One day, however, a stranger did arrive. He was an artist, who was rowing past the island, and struck by its beauty, decided to land. While ...See moreStrangers never came to their island home, and the girl lived there happily, "a child of nature." One day, however, a stranger did arrive. He was an artist, who was rowing past the island, and struck by its beauty, decided to land. While on his tour of exploration he discovered a little mermaid bathing in the sea, the fisherman's little daughter. The girl, trusting to the absolute seclusion of the island, did not wear a bathing suit, and as the artist was so struck with her beauty of form that he decided to engage her as his model. On her way home when the artist overtook her and offered to pay her well if she posed for the painting, "The Nymph." When she realized the meaning of his offer the girl refused it and the artist was compelled to abandon his proposed picture, for he felt no other model would be as satisfactory. Several weeks later wealthy relatives of the girl came to the island and induced her father to permit her to return with them to the city. There the girl was provided with handsome clothes and became a part of the social life of the city. She met a wealthy young man with whom she fell in love, and promised to marry him. The artist, who was well known in the city, met the girl at her relative's home, and asked her to marry him. To his dismay she told him of her engagement. The girl thought that the artist was a gentleman, who would never mention the meeting on the little island, but spurred on by jealous rage, the artist determined to have revenge. When he invited her to attend an exhibition of his paintings she came to his studio with her aunt and uncle, and there she felt the brunt of a cruel revenge, for upon the walls was displayed a painting of an unclad girl at the water's edge, called "The Nymph," and the face in the painting was her own. The artist told the girl's relatives that he and she had been very good friends when he visited the island, that she had posed for the painting willingly, and he had no idea she would object to its exhibition. The relatives knew that the girl and the man had met at her old home, and circumstantial evidence was so plainly against her that they refused to listen to her please of innocence, and requested her to leave their home. The girl was heart-broken. When her sweetheart learned of her trouble he alone believed her story and went to the artist's studio to compel him to tell the truth. There he forced the artist to write a confession, saying that he had used another model for the figure shown in the painting, but to secure his revenge had made the face of the painting that of the girl who had rejected him. With the proof of his fiancée's innocence the young man called upon her relatives, only to learn that she had returned to her home on the lonely little island, resolved in her misery to forget even him, but he followed her to the wilderness and saved her as she was preparing to take her own life. Then she learned the deep, noble character of the man she had promised to marry and realized that by living and becoming his wife she would make him happy, and so the "little nymph" forgot her troubles of the past in contemplating the happiness of the future. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Fred Kelsey (as Fred A. Kelsey)
Writer
Philip Lonergan (scenario)
Producer
Edwin Thanhouser
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Updated May 30, 1916
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May 30, 1916 (United States)

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