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TRUFFLE SOUP WITH CHAMPAGNE 119
used many times since in motion pictures. The first was when the Paris train pulled into the station. Instead of showing an actual train, the scene was shot in reverse, with the camera on the girl. The train was only suggested by the outline of its shadow and the lights from its windows as it came to a halt beside the station platform and as the girl moved toward the camera to board it.
After the scene faded out there was a time lapse of several months and Marie was discovered in a luxurious apartment in Paris. What had happened in the intervening months, the details that led up to her becoming Revel's mistress, were left to the imagination of the audience. Today this skipping of unimportant details is quite common, but at that time it was revolutionary.
A scene that 111 never forget is one in which I had to embrace Edna Purviance. Chaplin wanted us to tell a great deal in that kiss. There was to be passion and yet no indication on my part that I was in love with Marie. On the other hand, she was to show that the kiss was not repulsive and yet that she was unhappy. It was like engraving the Constitution on the head of a pin— much to be told in a very confined space. Well, we kissed and we kissed. And what a pleasure it was to begin with— kissing this beautiful creature time after time. I thought it a delightful way to make a living. But after a while it got to be very hard work. Chaplin would look at me and shake his head as though I were the most amateurish osculator he had ever seen. Then he would show me how to kiss her. Then I would kiss her again, and again he would shake his head. I must have kissed her 150 times. I never got so sick and tired of kissing a beautiful girl in my life. By the time we got that scene in the can I was completely disillusioned about my qualifications as a Don Juan.
Then there was the scene in which Marie told me that what she wanted was a home and children. I went to the window and pointed down to the street where a husband and wife with three children were walking along the sidewalk. The kids were fighting with each other and the husband and wife were arguing. That