Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

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The Truth about Screen Kisses 45 one of her pictures. I stood talking to Agnes Christine Johnston, the scenarist. Mrs. Louis B. Mayer was there. "How many in this one?" Mrs. Mayer asked. "Four!" Norma answered. The piquant little Metro star counts the kisses she has had in each picture. "In 'Excuse Me,' " she confided, "I got — well, let's see — I got ten or twelve from Conrad Nagel. I've forgotten the exact number now, but I can look it up. In 'The Tower of Lies,' I got four from William Haines. In 'A Slave of Fashion,' I got three from Lew Cody, and in 'He Who Gets Slapped,' I got four from Jack Gilbert. These last, I think, were the most romantic from the audience's viewpoint. Remember when we ran away to the woods — away out where it was still and where the little wild flowers were blooming and everything was green ? Gee, but it was romantic ! I got a lot of fan letters about those kisses. 'Tn 'His Secretary,' the picture I am making now, the story hinges about a plain little girl and a man who says, T wouldn't kiss her for one thousand dollars !' Then she becomes a stenographer, goes to the beauty parlors, gets all dolled up, and becomes quite attractive. The man then tries to kiss her and she replies, T wouldn't kiss you for one thousand dollars !' R-revenge, you know ! "But," the blue-eyed little vamp added, "she weakened. They always do !" Aileen Pringle, who vamped her way through Elinor Glyn-'s "Three Weeks," said that the first time she ever was kissed in pictures was by Rudolph Valentino in "Stolen Moments," and then she committed suicide. 1 "Went right off and died!" she laughed. "But it wasn't because of Rudolph. It was in the script." Miss Pringle is This scene between Claire credited with having Adams and Edmund Lowe participated in two is from "The Kiss Barof the most remark rier," though there isn't able kissing scenes any barrier evident here. ever filmed. One, of course, was that scene in "Three Weeks" where, reclining on a couch covered with rose petals, she was Marie Prevost says that her ideal of a perfect kiss was given her by her husband, Kenneth Harlan, in "Bobbed Hair." Another of those Elinor Glyn kisses — Paulette Duval and Lew Cody in "Man and Maid." taken into the arms of Conrad Nagel. Passion, hot and flaming, was depicted in the meeting of their lips. It was one of the most vivid moments in Madame Glyn's exotic film, and aroused much comment. Her second great oscillatory scene was in "His Hour" with Jack Gilbert — the kiss between the two in the sleigh. This was one of the longest ever experienced by Miss Pringle in pictures and, in fact, one of the longest ever filmed. It caused bales of "fan" letters to pour in to both Miss Pringle and Mr. Gilbert. "Those kisses were quite wonderful!" she said. "But," she added, with a smile, "quite impersonal." "But 'the slight, delightful chill as from peppermint drops ?' " I queried. "Good-by!" she said, and was away. Dorothy Mackaill admits there is no time for thinking of the canary bird or the knock in the engine when screen kisses are in progress. "I'll say this," she confided. "Secretly, I like to be kissed by — shall I tell his name? I'd rather not. His are different. His are the kind that stir the soul. Continued on page 105 Pauline Starke, shown here with Edward Hearn in "As No Man Has Loved," has a way of making her kisses look very real, no matter how cold and mechanical they may really be.