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The Kiss
The Kiss is a 1929 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Jacques Feyder, starring Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, and Lew Ayres in his first feature film. The film has no audible dialogue but featured a synchronized musical score and sound effects. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric Sound System sound-on-film process. The soundtrack was also transferred to discs for those theatres that were wired with sound-on-disc sound systems.
Plot
The story begins inside the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France. Two lovers – Irene Guarry (Greta Garbo) and André Dubail (Conrad Nagel) – feign interest in artwork as they discuss their clandestine romance. Irene is a young woman unhappily married to Charles Guarry (Anders Randolf), a wealthy, much older businessman, whose company teeters near bankruptcy. André is a successful lawyer, unmarried, close to Irene's age, and determined to face Charles and profess his love for Irene. Despite being trapped in a loveless marriage, Irene fears her husband's violent temper and his reaction if André were to confront him. "He's madly jealous," she tells André, and insists that her marriage situation is hopelessly bound by "convention... to a man I don't love." After she and André kiss, she leaves the museum, determined never to see her true love again.
More details
author | Hanns Kräly |
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director | Jacques Feyder |
editor | Ben Lewis |
genre | drama western |
keywords | bankruptcy clean dinner party dog show even failing business fine art kill kiss loveless marriage lyon france married move museum of fine arts of lyon private investigator summon suspicious husband tennis match trap true love unmarried young boy young woman |
musicBy | Rudolf Friml |
producer | Irving Thalberg Albert Lewin |
productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
theme | romantic drama silent |