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Best and Most Memorable Part 6 |
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Best and Most Memorable Part 6 |
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The films that are marked with a yellow star |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
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This romantic comedy ended with a breathless embrace and kiss in the rain, between Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) and writer Paul (George Peppard); his pursuit of her into the alleyway stopped her from flying off to Brazil - and squished the rescued Cat between them, as the camera zoomed in for a closeup |
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The Innocents (1961)
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This film was noted for the passionate kiss between repressed and slightly deranged governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) and young 'ghostly' Miles (Martin Stephens) - the orphaned, seemingly 'innocent' nephew of wealthy Bly House estate owner (Michael Redgrave) whom she believed was the reincarnation of the previous governess Miss Jessel' (Clytie Jessop) violently murdered Irish groom and estate's valet Peter Quint (Peter Wyngarde) | 
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Jules and Jim (1962)
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A kiss between returning WWI soldier Jim (Henri Serre) and Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) was accompanied by dissolving images of Catherine in bed, and the narrator's words: "Their first kiss lasted all night" | |
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In a night-time scene, to demonstrate Humbert's (James Mason) growing obsession with young nymphet Dolores 'Lolita' Haze (Sue Lyons), he played chess with her mother Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), when 'Lolita' strolled into the living room wearing a full length nightgown; Charlotte was worried - symbolically: "You're going to take my Queen!" He replied, expectedly: "That is my intention." Lolita leaned on the arm of his chair next to him, and then murmured: "G'night." She kissed her mother on the cheek and then nuzzled cheek to cheek next to Humbert before leaving to go upstairs; Humbert immediately took Charlotte's Queen in his next move: "It had to happen sometime" - he quipped; Humbert also received a goodbye kiss when Lolita was leaving for camp, when she memorably told him: "Don't forget me" |
 
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Two For the Seesaw (1962)
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Temporarily-unemployed, embittered, lonely and divorcing Nebraska lawyer Jerry Ryan (Robert Mitchum) kissed poor, candidly-liberated, Jewish Greenwich Village dancer Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz (Shirley MacLaine), to prove that he wasn't "queer" -- with their dialogue in between passionate smooches: (Ryan (after being asked if he was 'queer'): "Now you've gone too far" (He walked over to her and kissed her) Mosca: "How long have you been on the wagon?" Ryan: "A year" Mosca: "Where ya been? In jail?") and then she asked: "You want me to be promiscuous?" | 
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Kiss (1963)
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Andy Warhol's 54 minute underground film consisted entirely of a series of shorter (approx. 3 minute) films spliced together of various couples kissing - each segment filmed in long takes; sometimes the gender of a kisser was undetermined |
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Marnie (1964)
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In a hotly debated scene, frigid con artist/thief Marnie/Mary Edgar's (icy blonde Tippi Hedren) new husband Mark Rutland (James Bond co-star Sean Connery) - who was unable to hold back his desire - ripped off Marnie's nightgown on their honeymoon cruise to Fiji; he stumbled out an apology, but slowly drew her forward and hungrily kissed her, which she did not return; she laid down on the bed and allowed him to have her, but with no emotion nor passion, leaving the question open as to whether she wanted to have sex but was frigid, or was being passively raped |
  
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After breaking off his engagement with Baroness Elsa Schraeder (Eleanor Parker), the Captain (Christopher Plummer) followed after despairing and confused Maria (Julie Andrews) by the pavilion and asked two questions - about why she ran away to the Abbey and why she came back; he revealed that he wanted her to stay permanently when he told her that his engagement was off, and then held her tenderly by the chin and drew her lips nearer for a kiss; also there was an earlier kiss in bluish light of the evening between Liesl (Charmian Carr) and 17 year-old boyfriend Rolf (Daniel Truhitte) in the garden near the pavilion, after singing Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" together - a song of their innocent young adolescent love on the brink of adulthood; thunder, lightning and rain forced them into the shelter of the gazebo where they continued singing and dancing in a magical sequence - at the conclusion of their duet, they finally kissed just once to their mutual surprise - in reaction, Rolf raced rapturously from the gazebo, while Liesl exclaimed triumphantly with her arms outstretched: "Whee!" |
 
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Benjamin Braddock's (Dustin Hoffman) first fearful but lustful bedroom encounter in a hotel for an affair with the calm and almost businesslike married Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) was very memorable - after she turned on the light upon entering, he almost immediately moved the "Don't Disturb" sign to the outside of the door, set the door lock, and turned the lights back off; then he abruptly kissed her before she could exhale smoke from a drag on her cigarette |
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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Stanley Kramer's and Columbia Pictures' socially-conscious message film was the first truly mainstream Hollywood film to portray an interracial couple's romance between Dr. John Prentice (Sidney Poitier in a star-making role) and his fiancee Joey Drayton (Katharine Houghton - Katharine Hepburn's actual niece); except for one brief revolutionary view of the couple kissing (seen in a cab driver's rear view mirror on their way to the city of San Francisco from the airport), other scenes of their physical intimacy were edited out |
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
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Displaced astronaut-human George Taylor (Charlton Heston) kissed scientist-ape Zira (Kim Hunter), following this dialogue, as they stood next to crashing waves on a beach: Taylor: "Doctor, I'd like to kiss you goodbye." Zira: "All right ... but you're so damned ugly!" |
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After circling around the perimeter of an assembled crowd during a song, Romeo (Leonard Whiting) took Juliet (Olivia Hussey) by the hand from the opposite side of a pillar, and spoke his first words to her alone - to tell her of his passion. She responded in equal measure as they sensually pressed their hands together in this famous scene. Romeo: "Oh...O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; they pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair." (They interlocked their hands) Juliet: "Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake." Romeo: "Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips by thine, my sin is purged." (They kissed) Juliet: "Then have my lips the sin that they have took?" Romeo: "Sin from my lips! O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again." (They kissed again and Juliet sighed) |
 
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
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This film featured a dizzy 360 degree view of a 70-second kiss (mostly uninterrupted) while the camera moved around the osculating couple to the tune of "The Windmills Of Your Mind" - the kiss finally dissolved into a blur of color - it occurred between Faye Dunaway (as insurance investigator Vicky Anderson) and Steve McQueen (as millionaire Bostonian criminal Thomas Crown), after a challenging, 6 1/2 minute mostly non-verbal chess game with palpable sexual tension and imagery |
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Cactus Flower (1969)
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During one scene in this late 60s romantic comedy, Walter Matthau (as middle-aged, single, Fifth Avenue dentist Dr. Julian Winston) told Ingrid Bergman (posing as his super-competent, dignified and gracious "office wife" - his long-time nurse-receptionist Miss Stephanie Dickenson): "I think I'm going to kiss you" - she replied encouragingly: "When will you know for sure?" |
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The film's two most touching and remembered scenes were a prolonged kissing scene and the montage of the star-crossed couple, Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal) and Jenny Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), tossing snowballs at each other; after meeting many obstacles and making sacrifices, she was diagnosed as terminally ill when she was tested for pregnancy, and died in his arms at the hospital in a tear-inducing closing; she made a last request of him: "You, after all - you're going to be a merry widower." "I won't be merry," he responded. She replied: "Yes, you will be. I want you to be merry. You'll be merry, okay?" |
 
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THX 1138 (1971)
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In a post-apocalyptic, oppressive futuristic, underground world of the 25th century set up as a police state where people were required to wear white gowns and shave their heads, robot-building production line worker THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his female roommate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) - after not taking their state-required and prescribed, anti-emotion drug doses - began to experience illegal sexual feelings for each other, including passionate kissing, but then were caught and arrested by the black-garbed android enforcement police. | 
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Summer of '42 (1971)
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Young teenager Hermie (Gary Grimes) experienced sexual awakening and coming-of-age with lonely, 22 year-old neighboring war bride Dorothy (Jennifer O'Neill) after she learned by telegram that her husband had been killed in action; with tears in her eyes and slightly drunk, she put her head on Hermie's shoulder, slowly danced (barefooted) with him to the tune (the film's theme song) playing on a phonograph record, and tenderly kissed him a few times before beckoning him to her bedroom for comfort; after he left her that evening, that was the last time he saw her, as the film remembered their short summer romance on 1940s Nantucket Island in flashback |
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Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971, UK)
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This groundbreaking, acclaimed film by director John Schlesinger was notable for its tale of a romantic triangle; straight businesswoman Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) and fiftyish gay Dr. Daniel Hirsch (Peter Finch) both loved the same young man - bisexual artist/sculptor Bob Elkin (Murray Head); it was the first major motion picture to feature two gay characters kissing on the lips |
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Created in 1996-2008 © by Tim Dirks. All rights reserved.
What makes
a memorable screen kiss? Is it the passion, the circumstances, the buildup,
the dialogue, the unpredictability, the awkwardness, the sexiness or
eroticism, the cinematography, the unique quality...? Although any list
of the best, most romantic, and most indelible kisses through film history
is difficult to create, there are a number of kissing scenes in movies
that are unforgettable and deserve special mention. Most of these scenes
come from vintage, classic Hollywood films, rather than more recent
films, and even stretch back to the scandalous The Kiss (1896)!
are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 
Kiss in the Rain