Kiss Me Again

This Ernest Lubitsch classic has often been billed as one of the best-sophisticated comedies of the silent era. However, Kiss Me Again is now presumed lost. No copies are known to exist except for a trailer featured in the library of moving images, inc.

Like all "high comedies," Kiss Me Again was reportedly a comedy of manner and a refined example of satire, with witty title cards and ironic situational gags rather than physical humor. The film stars Marie Prevost as LouLou, a married woman who develops an infatuation with a handsome musician. When LouLou asks her husband Gaston (Monte Blue) for a divorce, he shrewdly agrees without an argument; of course, LouLou imagines that something must be amiss if Gaston is so eager to give her up, so she then moves heaven and earth to win him back.

The film also features Clara Bow, who was boosted into stardom as a "kid-girl" in Down to the Sea in Ships. She got, consequently, another lovely part in this Lubitsch film, where she is billed as a French typist living in Paris. What effort did she make to be French? Perhaps none. Apparently she was just her own dear self. Now Marie Prevost was a great actress. She was a charming and a cleaver and an amusing soubrette. However, she was another "star" doomed by fate to play only one role, and that is the role of a successful but not virtuous woman-about-town. She plays that better than anyone from the silent era.