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Search for Beauty (1934) begins with Jean (above) and Dan’s release from jail. Teaming up with their crony, Larry, the three hatch a plan to make money by launching a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals. It’s a very cute movie, and assembles some incredible young specimens of [...]

When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! These are from the pre-code film Murder at the Vanities (1934). Close your eyes and think of me. This blondie is the little cutie who stars opposite from Dick Powell in the “Young and Healthy” number from 42nd Street (1933). I’m unsure of [...]

When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! A surreal kiss planted on a boy wearing a paper mache mask. These are all of Marlene Dietrich from The Glamour Collection DVDs. Not even a sweater can come between this kiss. Kissing while holding an empty wine class in Morocco.

When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes! Ever since I met Stella Polaris earlier this year in Paris, I’ve been obsessed with watching Marlene Dietrich movies. Both women possess a remarkable grace and mysterious air about them. These kissing scenes come from two movies: “The Devil Is a Woman” and [...]

This is not my uploaded video, but I love LOVE in these old movies when lovers sing operatic solos loudly into their lovers’ faces. I’ve captured some quiet, overlooked snippets of the 1930 French film “Prix de Beaute.” The majority of these were panning shots or captures from a series of montages: Louise Brooks mournfully [...]
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Don’t muss Ms. Davis’s hair, she’s watching! Now, that’s better. Cowboy kiss from “Two Fister” (1927) – notice gun pointed at enemy. A kiss from behind the curtain (Unknown movie).

When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Bonjour tout le monde! Je suis en Paris this week but I shall keep you up to your ears in kissing film stills, nonetheless! Louise Brooks pulling back from an embrace. I think that’s a balloon she’s holding! A kiss captured among decomposing [...]
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Unknown, 1930s I’m pretty sure this is James Cagney Oh so sweet! Lookit their chicken dinner and her apron. Face Smoosh! Unknown, 1930s
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! The Sheik, mid 1920s Unknown, late 1920s Unknown, 1920s Unknown, 1930s
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Unknown, late 1920s Clara Bow in It, 1927 Unknown, early 1920s Rudolph Valentino, early 20s Unknown, 1920s Okay, okay, this week I cheated! These aren’t my standard 1930s kisses, but they ARE preCode kisses, nontheless! These are gleaned from “Why Be Good?: Sexuality [...]
When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!! Why Change Your Wife (1920) Dames (1934) They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Red Headed Woman (1932) This was from an “extra reel” on the Dames DVD, where Dick Powell is judging the kissing of the new campus cuties. I think Dick Powell [...]