Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

44 The Truth about Screen Kisses Norma Shearer says that the kisses given her by John Gilbert in the woodland scene of "He Who Gets Slapped" were the most romantic she has ever received on the screen. on a cannibal isle. Kisses of every variety — furtive kisses, fearful kisses, tender kisses — all kinds !" "And the net result?" The brown-eyed star, in whose veins courses the blood of old Spain and whose ancestry runs back to the land of the Moors, smiled sweetly, ever so sweetly and — ran away. She glanced back over her shoulder once, flashed another smile and — kept going ! I had seen George O'Brien and Margaret Livingston in a loving embrace in "Havoc," a William Fox production. Margaret protests that in nearly all her pictures she has had to go after her kisses — that the scripts require that she get her man. "Did you see what happened in 'Havoc?'" she exclaimed. "I kissed George O'Brien, Bertram Grasby, Walter McGrail, and David Butler ! That's what made the havoc ! But did you notice what George did? He stood there with one arm around me and with his fist clenched! Now what do you think of that? What would most girls do if they went to George O'Brien to imprint a kiss on his lips and he should clench his fist? Run? I don't Conrad Nagel has been the man in more than one of Elinor Glyn's passionate love scenes. This one with Eleanor Boardman is from "The Only Thing." know of any one who would run if she had to kiss George! Do you? "They say that Will Rogers never kisses a girl during the making of any picture. It isn't so! He kissed me, a lot of times — once! But we had to frame him. We were making 'Water, Water Everywhere.' Clarence Badger was directing. 'Red,' he said — he always called me 'Red' — 'when the train comes in, we'll have the cameras set, and when you step off, you rush up to Will Rogers, throw your arms about his neck, and kiss him. We'll get it!' "Did I? I'll say I did! Mr. Rogers was so surprised, he didn't know just what to do. But he did the only thing any gentleman could do. He kissed me — something like a Great Dane tearing a chunk of meat off of a bone. Later, he said to Clarence Badger, 'Gee ! I hope I didn't hurt little Red !' " 'Not her !' Mr. Badger replied." "But about that 'slight, delightful chill as from peppermint drops,' " I insisted. "Say!" Margaret confided. "Don't let them tell you that when a nice-looking, strong-armed young man takes you in his arms and kisses you full on the lips, while a hidden orchestra plays soft music and there's perfume on your clothes, don't let them tell you you are going to be thinking about that canary cage or the house rent ! They can talk all they want to, but a warm, full-lipped kiss is a kiss, and don't you forget it !" Miss Livingston, in her usual frank, open way, apparently had voiced her opinion, at any rate. Marie Prevost said she had received the ideal kiss from Kenneth Harlan in "Bobbed Hair." And they're married now ! "I am sure," said Claire Windsor, "my most romantic kiss was from Bert Lytell when we played the leading roles in the picture Edwin Carewe made in Africa. It was there the romance began that culminated in our marriage a few months ago." Mae Murray must always It seems there was somehave her lover by the hair thing of the "peppermint when being kissed. drop" in that. Norma Shearer came out of a theater where a preview had been given of "The Tower of Lies," Margaret Livingston ruefully protests that she has had to go after most of her screen kisses, including this one with George O'Brien in "Havoc."