Kiss Me Again is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, and Clara Bow. The film was based on the French play Divorçons! (1880), by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac, and the adapted version of the play Cyprienne.[2]
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Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
Screenplay by | Hanns Kräly |
Based on | Divorçons! by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac |
Starring | Marie Prevost Monte Blue Clara Bow |
Cinematography | Charles Van Enger |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 7 reels |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Budget | $224,000[1] |
Box office | $394,000[1] |
Plot
editAs described in a film magazine review,[3] infatuated with her music teacher, LouLou decides to leave her husband. Her husband takes a room at the club. When the time for the divorce arrives, the husband returns home to get his clothes and his wife persuades him to stay. She has suspected him of having another woman and is disgusted by the "other man."
Cast
edit- Marie Prevost as LouLou Fleury
- Monte Blue as Gaston Fleury
- John Roche as Maurice
- Clara Bow as Grizette
- Willard Louis as Dr. DuBois
Box Office
editAccording to Warner Bros records, the film earned $318,000 domestically and $76,000 in foreign markets.[1]
Preservation
editThe film is now considered lost.[4][5] Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition. No copies of Kiss Me Again are known to exist.
See also
edit- Let's Get a Divorce (1918)
- That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
- List of lost films
References
edit- ^ a b c Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 4 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- ^ Munden, Kenneth White, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog: Of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 409. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
- ^ "New Pictures: Kiss Me Again", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (1), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 151, June 27, 1925, retrieved May 30, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Kiss Me Again at silentera.com
- ^ Kiss Me Again at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers Pictures - 1925 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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