The Moving Picture Weekly (1919-1922)

Vol. 15, No. 13 The Moving Picture Weekly 39 CASH IN WITH "KISSED TELL 'EM ABOUT 1 — Marie Prevost's steady growth as a star — a year ago she was new to the dramatic field and today she is "accepted" in every meaning of the word. 2 — The title, "Kissed," with every one of a thousand tie-ups and gags it suggests. 3 — The authorship by Arthur Somers Roche, who today is one of the world's most popular fictionists. 4 — Direction by King Baggot, who guided Miss Prevost's earlier efforts in dramatic work and who recently completed "H u m a n Hearts," one of UniversaPs three biggest contributions to the screen. 5 — The battery of four handsome leading men, J. Frank Glendon, Harold Goodwin, Lloyd Whitlock and Harold Miller, all of them extremely popular, and two, Glendon and Goodwin, formerly stars. AT A GLANCE MABIE PD£VO?T ,*"K,l S SED" " IT'S ft UNIVERSAL TITLE— "Kissed." BRAND — Universal Attraction. STAR— MARIE PREVOST. PREVIOUS HITS — "Moonlight Follies," "Nobody's Fool," "Don't Get Personal" and "The Dangerous Little Demon." SUPPORTING CAST— J. Frank Glendon, Harold Goodwin, Arthur Hoyt, Harold Miller, Lloyd Whitlock, Lillian Langdon, Marie Crisp and Percy Challenger. DIRECTED BY— King Baggot, director of "Human Hearts," one of the three biggest pictures ever made by Universal. STORY BY— Arthur Somers Roche. SCENARIO BY— Doris Schroeder. PHOTOGRAPHY BY— Benny Bail. TIME— Present. LOCALE — A fashionable suburban town. 1? THUMB NAIL THEME INHABITANTS of the little suburb of Garyville considered the marriage of Constance Keener to Merton Torrey, railroad president, as inevitable as the Fourth of July. But Connie was vaguely dissatisfied. Torrey's attentions to her were devoid of romance. When she voiced this plaint he asked her to go to a masked ball at the Country club; then at the last moment he called and blamed a board meeting for breaking the date. Connie went anyway under the protection of her mother and an old man, determined to find Romance if it was extant. Wandering out onto a veranda, she found couples engaged in making love, with a full moon giving it the O. K. Loneliness was the bunk! She wanted Romance.. Suddenly it came to her — a figure vaulted over the railing and kissed her, then disappeared. A moment later three men so clad stood in a group below in the moonlight. Any one of them might be that man! His way of kissing was worth getting excited over, and she did. One by one she met the three men alone and gave each a "trial." Step by step she went through a perilous course of adventure until she found the giver of that kiss and — got the surprise of her young life! ABOUT MARIE PREVOST MARIE PREVOST is so beautiful and charming that one hardly stops to consider the possibility that she might be a dyed-in-the-wool intellectual. Underneath her vivacious manner may be something extraordinary in the brain line. Ever stop to think of it? Some folks think a beautiful woman hasn't any right to be brainy. That she's intended simply as a graceful ornament. "When I get to be an ornament in this world without any chance to exercise what grey matter I've got, I want some one mercifully to chloroform me!" says the piquant Universal screen star. She has quite a penchant for such books as Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street," Joseph Hergesheimer's "Cytherea," the works of Frank Swinnerton and the old English classics. Recently she met a poet whose fiery verse had held first place in her heart. He was quite unassuming, not at all like the stuff he wrote. She nearly lost faith in everything over the disillusionment. But now that the crisis is past she takes great stock in Lawrence Hope's Indian Love Lyrics. "Wings" is her favorite of all Hope's poems. Cash In On Your Showmanship. Enter Universal's "Crusoe" Competition.