Wonderland Burlesque's Let's All Go To The Movies: It's In His Kiss - Part XV

Wonderland Burlesque's 

Let's All Go To The Movies: 

It's In His Kiss

Part XV

It's in his kiss.

Isn't that where it all begins?

A caress of the lips. A deep longing. Sharing a single breath?

On the silver screen such a kiss can be captured forever, frozen in time.

Or so these films would have us believe.

So, let's kiss and tell and spill the beans on these everlasting smacks, smooches, and snogs.

Yes, things can get pretty heated.

Chapstick exists for a reason, you know!

Grab a seat on the aisle.

Popcorn at the ready.

Pucker up and roll film!

- uptonking from Wonderland Burlesque

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Kiss and Make Up

1921

Newlywed hubby insists upon hotel life, so to a hotel they go, and after his wife becomes the belle of the establishment, they migrate to a California bungalow. Then, when wifey is planning a surprise party for him, the husband comes home unexpectedly. The musician, caterer, and florist are made to hide behind curtains and beneath sofas. They are discovered, of course, and accused of being the wife's lovers. There are further complications when a messenger boy brings an amorous letter to the wife by mistake. Complications ensue.

Helen Darling

This American silent film was directed by Scott Sidney and stars Earl Rodney, Helen Darling and Thornton Edwards.

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Kiss and Make-up

(1934)

Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic-surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also seduces them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the affects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher...after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.

Based on the play Kozmetika by István Békeffy, this American comedy was directed by Harlan Thompson with Eugene Negulesco and stars Cary Grant, Genevieve Tobin, Edward Everett Horton and Helen Mack.

Helen Mack replaced Carole Lombard, who refused to do the role.

Features a very rare example of Cary Grant singing a fully-orchestrated musical number, Love Divided By Two, with a later reprise.

Future Ann Sheridan appears in an uncredited role as a beautician. She would eventually star aside Cary Grant in 1949's I Was A Male Order Bride.

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign that selected a group of actresses who the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers felt were on the brink of stardom. The women were featured as 'Baby Stars' in this film and were the last group, because the WAMPAS did away with program the following year, after which WAMPAS itself disbanded. Former 'Baby Stars' include Jean Arthur and Ginger Rogers.

The New York Times critic Andre Sennwald called the film "a first-class lingerie bazaar and a third-class entertainment" and wrote: "It represents a triumphant attempt to achieve pictorial allure without disturbing its pious editorial point of view on the impersonal worship of feminine beauty. It crowds the screen so thickly with silk, satin and nymphs that it is with some difficulty that such agreeable players as Edward Everett Horton, Cary Grant and Genevieve Tobin succeed in projecting themselves at all. Kiss and Make-Up succeeds to a remarkable degree in being dull." 

You can watch this film in its entirety for free on YouTube.

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Kiss and Wake Up

(1942)

Johnny Downs has a fight with his fiancée Adele Mara on the eve of their wedding and they decide to call it off. He realizes his mistake and wishes to make up but she is adamant. To make her jealous, he disguises his friend Frank Sully as a girl, but this backfires on him.

This American comedy was directed by Jules White and stars Johnny Downs, Frank Sully, and Adele Mara.

Johnny Downs

Johnny Downs was an American actor, singer and dancer. He began his career as a child actor, most notably as Johnny in the Our Gang short comedy film series from 1923 to 1926, appearing in 24 episodes. In the mid 1930's he found his niche, appearing in a string of 'college' films. Then, in the early 1940's, he starred in a series of short subjects, mostly musicals, for Columbia Pictures. He remained active in films, television and theatre through the early 1960s. In all, he appeared in nearly 100 movies.

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Kiss and Tell

(1945)

15-year-old Corliss Archer and 17-year-old Mildred Pringle are best friends and get into some mischief together which causes their parents to fight over who is a bad influence on whom. Their fight also concerns Mildred and Lenny Archer, Corliss' brother, who eloped one weekend when Lenny's home on leave from the Army. Fearing that the Pringles would want the marriage annulled, the couple decides not to tell anyone except Corliss. Then Mildred gets pregnant and Corliss is seen leaving the doctor's office when she accompanies Mildred there. Mrs. Pringle heads to the Archers' with the wrong idea and tells them that Corliss is pregnant, and they assume that Corliss' boyfriend is the father. To buy them some time, Corliss tells her parents that she and Dexter are married, all the while trying to contact Mildred at every opportunity. Suddenly, Corliss' uncle, a navy chaplain, shows up and offers to give them a real home wedding right then and there!

Based on the stage play of the same name by F. Hugh Herbert , this American comedy was directed by Richard Wallace and stars 17-year-old Shirley Temple, Jerome Courtland, Walter Abel, Katherine Alexander, Virginia Welles and Robert Benchley.

Shirley Temple would play Corliss Archer again in A Kiss for Corliss (1949), her final film.

The $400,000 paid to George Abbott (writer of the original short stories) and Herbert for the play's film rights was a then-record in Hollywood.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called the film an "effervescent" adaptation of the stage play and declared Temple "superb in the leading role." Film Daily wrote: "A fast-paced comedy amusing from first to last has been fashioned from F. Hugh Herbert's stage success... [Shirley Temple] delivers her best work since her farewell to childhood." John McCarten of The New Yorker reported that the film hadn't changed much from the "protracted but reasonably diverting" stage version, and singled out Jerome Courtland as "one of the most capable adolescent actors to come along in years."

You can watch this film in its entirety for free on YouTube.

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Kisses Right and Left

(1972)

AKA: Kys til højre og venstre

After drifting from relationship to relationship; Jack has an on-going relationship with a married woman ten years his senior named Betty, while Hugo, after several failed relationships, has fallen in love with a younger, married model/actress named Ruth. Neither of the girls are actually available, as they have other primary relationships, but Jack and Hugo are betting they can win their hearts, at any cost.

Based on the novel of the same name by Jens Gielstrup, this Danish romantic comedy drama was directed by Ole Roos and stars Peter Bonke, Jens Østerholm, Birgitte (Price) Bruun, and Vigga Bro.

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Kiss And Tell - Ending

(1945)

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Wonderland Burlesque's Let's All Go To The Movies: It's In His Kiss - Part XIV

 Wonderland Burlesque's 

Let's All Go To The Movies: 

It's In His Kiss

Part XIV

It's in his kiss.

Isn't that where it all begins?

A caress of the lips. A deep longing. Sharing a single breath?

On the silver screen such a kiss can be captured forever, frozen in time.

Or so these films would have us believe.

So, let's kiss and tell and spill the beans on these everlasting smacks, smooches, and snogs.

Yes, things can get pretty heated.

Chapstick exists for a reason, you know!

Grab a seat on the aisle.

Popcorn at the ready.

Pucker up and roll film!

- uptonking from Wonderland Burlesque

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False Kisses

(1921)

Fishing partners Paul Whalen and Jim Payne are rivals for the affections of Jennie Blake, a schoolteacher from the city who came to their small town of Rocky Point to teach school. After Jim is beaten in a fight by Paul, Jennie marries Paul and Jim leaves town. Five years later he returns to town as coastal inspector.  He learns that Jennie and Paul are still married but that Paul is out of work. Jim then hires Jim as a lighthouse keeper, but sends the couple to a remote, lonely, depressing lighthouse. Complications ensue.

Based on the play Ropes, this American silent drama was directed by Paul Scardon and stars Miss DuPont, Pat O'Malley, and Lloyd Whitlock.

Miss DuPont was an American film actress and fashion designer. She is perhaps best known for her roles in Foolish Wives (1922) and for a supporting role in the Clara Bow vehicle Mantrap (1926). She appeared as a wealthy and naïve American woman seduced by Erich von Stroheim's odious count in Foolish Wives (1922). Although Stroheim is credited with discovering her, she had already made several films beginning in 1919 with The Day She Paid. Her film career ended in 1927.

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Cheap Kisses

(1924)

When Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes unexpectently wealthy, his son, Donald Dillingham, refuses to join his family in their new jazz age social life. Donald then garners even greater disapproval by marrying chorus girl Ardell Kendall. Learning that famous sculptor Gustaf Borgstrom wishes to use Ardell as model, the Dillinghams have a change of heart and suddenly welcome Donald and Ardell to their estate. Donald quickly surrenders to both the jazzy pleasures available and the attentions of Maybelle Wescott, though Ardell remains aloof to all. In order to pay Maybelle to leave Donald alone, Ardell blackmails Henry Dillingham with exposure of his infatuation with a chorus girl. However, when the adventuress breaks her agreement to leave Donald alone, Ardell reveals the bargain to Donald, who angrily storms off. Ardell, with heavy heart, returns to the couple's honeymoon cottage and finds a remorseful Donald waiting for her.

This American silent drama was directed by John Ince and Cullen Tate and stars Jean Hersholt, Louise Dresser, Bessie Eyton, Cullen Landis and Lillian Rich.

This film is considered lost.

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Kid Glove Kisses 

(1932)

It's all love and laughter in this boxing ring comedy featuring the antics of Slim Summerville.

Claire Maynard

This American comedy was directed by Harry Edwards and stars Slim Summerville, Eddie Gribbon and Claire Maynard. 

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Bewitching Kisses 

(1937)

AKA: Besos brujos, Beijos Comprados

A young, beautiful singer leaves Buenos Aires after her fiancée supposedly betrays her with another girl. In her new job as a singer in a small town, a rancher falls in love with her "bewitching kisses". Smitten, he abducts her, taking her to his cabin in the Jungle. Meanwhile, her boyfriend hasn't gotten over losing her and begins a search for his lost love.

Based on a story by Enrique García Velloso, this Argentine romantic musical drama was directed and written by José A. Ferreyra and stars Libertad Lamarque and Floren Delbene.

This musical is part of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. Beginning in the 1930's and continuing into the 1950's, this golden age marks a time during which national film production underwent a process of industrialization and standardization that involved the emergence of mass production, the establishment of the studio, genre and star systems, and the adoption of the institutional mode of representation (MRI) that was mainly (though not exclusively) spread by Hollywood, By adopting these standards, Argentine cinema quickly became one of the most popular film industries across Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world.

Libertad Lamarque

You can watch this film in its entirety for free on YouTube.

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A Thousand Little Kisses 

(1981)

AKA: אלף נשיקות קטנות, Elef Nishikot K'tano

In contemporary Tel Aviv, a mother and daughter confront each other after the death of the father/husband and discover that he had a secret affair. The daughter is drawn irresistibly to the 'other' woman's son and finds herself torn between feelings of loyalty to her mother and her distaste for the father's passionate past, while the mother is tormented by her husband's past betrayal and her own current jealousy. Both women struggle to settle old debts as they each experience passion and pain, but grow to learn a sense of independence.

This Israeli drama was written and directed by Mira Recanati and stars Dina Doran and Rivka Neuman.

 

The film was submitted as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

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Quiereme - Libertad Lamarque
from the 1937 motion picture Bejos Brujos

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