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Kissing Film Stills, pt. 15
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!!
Alice Fay in Tailspin (1939)
Cary Grant in Kiss and Make-up (1934) I like the smile/smooch.
Cary Grant plays a successful plastic surgeon in a Pygmalion-scenario where his creation, Eve, turns on him.
Although this is a comedy about the lengths women go to change their appearance, it was TERRIFYING by today’s lens. When I described it to a friend she thought I had been watching a horror movie. Grant’s operating room was stark white, adorned with Greek sculptures. The beauty attendants make a clay mold of the patient’s face, and Grant literally sculpts the new features into the wet clay to reveal the beauty within. The women sigh and clap with glee. It reminded me of Eyes Without a Face (1960).
Grant pulls the Dastardly Spanish Dandy off of Miss Eve.
The ending kiss, wherein he ends up with his secretary who doesn’t powder her nose nor curls her hair. Simple beauty triumphs over olive oil treatments, reducing diets and moisturizing mittens.
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Oooooh I haven’t seen Kiss and Make-up but it sounds fantastic! I have a super afterlife crush on Cary Grants, and Eyes Without A Face is one of my very favorites. The last scene slays me.
Mmmmmm! Cary Grant <3 They don't make 'em like that any more!
These posts always make me smile! Lovely!
i can’t remember how i happened upon your blog but i just love it! and as a fellow 1920s/30s style-lover and pre-code movie adorer your kissing scene stills are just thrilling!!!! i love that you thought of it. and i have to share, however obvious it may be–but one of my all-time favorite kisses is in 42nd street with Dick Powell and a gorgeous little blonde (who was not a star but in several other movies in bit parts)…i don’t know what it is but he’s singing about how young and able he is and then plants the best kiss on her! good luck with your moving in/nesting process!