Kiss Me Again (Warner Bros.) (1931)

LENGTH (Vitaphone) FOOTAGE 6775 Feet RUNNING TIME 75 Minutes NATIONAL PICTURES 321 WES1 44th STREET a . Permission is licensed reproduce with proper notice of copyright all matter contained herein. granted exhibitors to KISS ME AGAIN THE LAST WORD IN ALL ROMANCES SYNOPSIS (Not for Publication) (Copyright, First National Pictures, Inc., All Rights Reserved.) The Maison Cecile is a smart gown salon in Paris. Marie, daughter of General de Villefranche, has | been patronizing Cecile’s for some | time presumably selecting a treus1 seau for her wedding to Paul de | St. Cyr, son of a friend of her father. However, Marie has been | meeting Rene at Cecile’s. Marie and 1 Paul do not love each other, but | do not dare tell their stern fathers. 1 Paul in turn, is in love with Fifi, | who works at Cecile’s and is am| bitious to become a great singer. The general goes with Marie to 1 see what is taking so much of her | time, and upon seeing Rene, orders “im awa. _Menr-r oslo” Oso) hash ved and is holding a charming | intrigue with Fifi, who sings to | him, her love song — “Kiss Me | Again.” Paul’s father, discovering | that his son and Fifi are to elope | that night, goes to her apartment and offers her a check to give him up. Fifi refuses, but later accepts 1 it when the Count de-St. Cyr tells | her that she will ruin Paul socially and in the army by being below him in station.. When Paul comes for her, she tells him that she was out merely for money and has got her price. When he leaves, heartbroken, she tears up the check. Paul and Rene 4 go to Algeria with their regiment. Over the radio he hears Fifi sing “Kiss Me Again.” Fifi has left Cecile’s, and is now singing in a cafe where she quickly becomes a favorite. Fifi goes to Italy where she becomes a famous opera singer. She refuses an invitation to a ball in her honor in order to accept one from the Count who is giving a ball in honor of his son’s homecoming. He does not. know she is Fifi, since her stage name is now Bellini. Paul and Fifi are reunited, but she remembers that she has promised not to marry ~him without the consent of his father. When the Count recognizes her, he berates her, but Paul shields her. He threatens to go away permanently with Fifiif his father does not agree to their marriage, and the Count, seeing how much his son loves the girl, finally consents. Just at this time, the General discovers that his daughter, Marie, has eloped with Rene. CAST OF CHARACTERS PRINTED IN U. S. A. ~The LAST WORD In Love Stories! She didn’t have an enemy in all Paris. But when she met a man that wouldn't fall— oo la la — ‘the Brn heein cree en with BERNICE CLAIRE WALTER PIDGEON Edward Everett Horton, June Collyer, Frank McHugh, Claude Gillingwater. Based on “Mile Modiste.” Music by VICTOR HERBERT Book by Henry Blossom. THEATRE NAME 250 Lines Cut No. 5 Cut goc Mat roc. Your First Step Havnica Claws in advertising “Kiss Edward Everett Horton Walter Pidgeon June Collyer Frank McHugh Claude Gillingwater Judith Vosselli Albert Gran Me Again’’ is to get the First National Trailer on your It talks a box-office language! screen! SUMMARY. “Kiss Me Again” — told in a whirlwind of laughter, dancing, gorgeous girls and gowns, officers in brilliant reds, blues and goldlace, soldiers, ladies of fashion—in fashion’s latest creations — gay boulevardiers — people of the streets—all in the colors of life! The loves of Fifi—tender, fiery, frothy, French and Frenchy, done to the broken time of the modern _world with *he Victor Ho | and romance! Sa Wage aca PTL oVoSr ey OS ROUTINE STORY Copyright, 1930, by First National Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Manager of the ..... Theatre announces next as the opening dates for ‘‘Kiss Me Again,’’ latest First National Production, a modernized, all natural color screen version of Victor Herbert’s famous romance, ‘‘Mlle. Modiste.’’ The name of the piece has been changed, without doubt, on account of the worldwide popularity of the song ‘‘Kiss Me Again,’’ which, when the piece was first performed was sung by Fritzi Scheff. It is Bernice Claire who plays the part of the flirtatious Fifi, and sings the haunting song, ‘‘ Kiss Me Again.”’ Though the original story is adhered to, the costumes have been brought up to the minute, many of the most tuneful and amusing scenes taking place in the fashion palace of Mme. Cecile in Paris. These sequences which are gay and colorful in the extreme—are equaled by the interludes in Algeria and Italy. Fifi, a seamstress in the Maison Cecile, is spied by dashing Paul St. Cyr, in spite of the fact that he is to marry a rich girl who is buying her trosseau at the place. Paul’s gouty father comes to find the reason for his son’s frequent visits, and discovering that the young officer’s heart has gone gallivanting—goes to see Fifi to bribe her to set his son free. Fifi gives the son up, but cannot refuse the money the old man offers, as she wished to go abroad to study singing. Fifi wins her ambition. It is when the father of Paul plans a grand ball for his returning son with his regiment that Fifi again has her innings. There is a secondary love story, and much uproarious comedy. Those in the east are the beautiful Bernice Claire, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Pidgveon, June Collyer, Frank MeHugh, Claude Gillingwater, Judith Voselli and Albert Gran. William A. Seiter directed. Claude Gillingwater who plays the part of the gouty general and sings with such testy gusto the song ‘‘I Want What I Want When I Want It,’’ had the same part in the original production of the Victor Herbert romance. Beside the theme song ‘‘Kiss Me Again’’ there is a rousing marching song sung by Fifi and the soldiers, ‘‘The Mascot of the Troup.”’ ‘‘Kiss Me Again’’ is the first of the Victor Herbert successes to reach the talking screen — but there is every reason. to believe it is not the last. That the public wants Victor Herbert is evidenced by the throngs which attend the many New York revivals of his successes. All is filmed in the most gorgeous Technicolor. While settings, story, and casting are of the first order—it is after all the melodious, glorious melodies of Victor Herbert tha’ make ‘‘Kiss Me Again’’ t] thing of beauty that it is. Page }