Kiss Me Again (1925 film)

Kiss Me Again
Kiss Me Again
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Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch
Screenplay by	Hanns Kräly
Based on	Divorçons!; by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac
Starring	Marie Prevost; Monte Blue; Clara Bow
Cinematography	Charles Van Enger
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	August 1, 1925 (US);
Running time	7 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)
Budget	$224,000
Box office	$394,000

Kiss Me Again is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, and Clara Bow. The film was based on the French play Divorçons! (1880), by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac, and the adapted version of the play Cyprienne.^[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[3] infatuated with her music teacher, LouLou decides to leave her husband. Her husband takes a room at the club. When the time for the divorce arrives, the husband returns home to get his clothes and his wife persuades him to stay. She has suspected him of having another woman and is disgusted by the "other man."

Cast

Marie Prevost as LouLou Fleury
Monte Blue as Gaston Fleury
John Roche as Maurice
Clara Bow as Grizette
Willard Louis as Dr. DuBois

Box Office

According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $318,000 domestically and $76,000 in foreign markets.^[1]

Preservation

The film is now considered lost.^[4]^[5] Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition. No copies of Kiss Me Again are known to exist.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 4 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^ Munden, Kenneth White, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog: Of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 409. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
^ "New Pictures: Kiss Me Again", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (1), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 151, June 27, 1925, retrieved May 30, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Progressive Silent Film List: Kiss Me Again at silentera.com
^ Kiss Me Again at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers Pictures - 1925 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

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[warners-1] Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 4 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

[2] Munden, Kenneth White, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog: Of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 409. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.

[3] "New Pictures: Kiss Me Again", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (1), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 151, June 27, 1925, retrieved May 30, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[4] Progressive Silent Film List: Kiss Me Again at silentera.com

[5] Kiss Me Again at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers Pictures - 1925 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

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