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Kiss and Make-Up

  • 1934
  • Approved
  • 1h 18m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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Cary Grant, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Mack, and Genevieve Tobin in Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
ComedyMusicalRomance

A handsome plastic surgeon has a beauty clinic, where many a beautiful client falls in love with him. His unnoticed secretary is in love with him, too.A handsome plastic surgeon has a beauty clinic, where many a beautiful client falls in love with him. His unnoticed secretary is in love with him, too.A handsome plastic surgeon has a beauty clinic, where many a beautiful client falls in love with him. His unnoticed secretary is in love with him, too.

  • Director
    • Harlan Thompson
  • Writers
    • István Békeffy
    • Harlan Thompson
    • George Marion Jr.
  • Stars
    • Cary Grant
    • Genevieve Tobin
    • Helen Mack
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    901
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Harlan Thompson
    • Writers
      • István Békeffy
      • Harlan Thompson
      • George Marion Jr.
    • Stars
      • Cary Grant
      • Genevieve Tobin
      • Helen Mack
    • 19User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Cary Grant
    Cary Grant
    • Dr. Maurice Lamar
    Genevieve Tobin
    Genevieve Tobin
    • Eve Caron
    Helen Mack
    Helen Mack
    • Annie
    Edward Everett Horton
    Edward Everett Horton
    • Marcel Caron
    Lucien Littlefield
    Lucien Littlefield
    • Max Pascal
    Mona Maris
    Mona Maris
    • Countess Rita
    Rafael Alcayde
    Rafael Alcayde
    • Rolando
    • (as Rafael Storm)
    Toby Wing
    Toby Wing
    • Consuelo of Claghorne
    Dorothy Christy
    Dorothy Christy
    • Greta
    Judith Arlen
    • Salon Worker
    Betty Bryson
    • Salon Client
    Jean Carmen
    • Maharajah's Wife
    Helen Cohan
    • Radio Announcer
    Dorothy Drake
    • Beautician
    Joan Gale
    • Salon Worker
    Hazel Hayes
    • Salon Worker
    Ann Hovey
    Ann Hovey
    • Lady Rummond-Dray
    Lucille Lund
    Lucille Lund
    • Magda
    • Director
      • Harlan Thompson
    • Writers
      • István Békeffy
      • Harlan Thompson
      • George Marion Jr.
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    5blanche-2

    early Grant, before he had the clout to choose his scripts

    Cary Grant, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Mack, and Edward Everett Horton star in "Kiss and Make Up," a 1934 film. Grant plays a popular plastic surgeon, Dr. Maurice Lamar (the film takes place in France). He falls for one of his makeovers (Tobin) who leaves her husband (Horton) and marries Lamar. Despite her looks, Lamar soon realizes he has created a monster. Meanwhile, Lamar's secretary Anne is in love with him and becomes increasingly unhappy as he seems to need her constantly but takes her for granted. Can you guess what happens? This actually is a musical with three songs, and Grant does his own singing. He must have - no one could have dubbed his awful tremolo. Other than that, he actually had a pleasant singing voice.

    A very slight comedy, and I was surprised to read that Carole Lombard was supposed to play the role of the secretary but turned it down. Good move. And that casting wouldn't have worked. Lombard was certainly too beautiful to have been ignored by Lamar. Mack was pretty without being an absolute knockout. Genevieve Tobin does a good job as the annoying Eve, and Horton is funny as her husband, who wants his wife's old looks and personality back.

    This film was really beneath Grant but he was too new to turn it down. He is perfect for the role of a handsome, dapper womanizer and is very good.

    See it for the young Grant, but don't expect too much.
    5bkoganbing

    Keep Young And Beautiful

    A year before Kiss And Make Up came out from Paramount, Sam Goldwyn produced Roman Scandals for Eddie Cantor in which Cantor sang the song Keep Young And Beautiful. While watching this film, it occurred to me that rather than any of the songs that Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger wrote for this film, Keep Young And Beautiful could have served better as the theme for Kiss And Make Up.

    Not only that Eddie Cantor should have played the part that Cary Grant did in this film. A few more sight gags and the kind of humor that Cantor did would have served this film better.

    With only a few establishing shots to make us believe this is Paris in the film, Cary Grant plays a noted French plastic surgeon who has become a celebrity of sorts with his success rate in turning out women who rate being called a 10. He guarantees doubling their rating value. One woman, Genevieve Tobin is pleased with his work, but her husband Edward Everett Horton is not. Finally Cary has a secretary in his office played by Helen Mack who sees him as a human being and not a celebrity beauty queen maker.

    When MGM's compilation film That's Entertainment was released audiences were treated to a clip from Suzy which came out two years later than Kiss And Make Up and had Cary Grant singing Did I Remember. He sings here some songs that surely have been served better had they been done by Paramount's singing star Bing Crosby. In Suzy Grant did the number for laughs, here someone thought maybe he could be a musical star. Big mistake. In fact Edward Everett Horton and Helen Mack singing an ode to that St. Patrick's Day delicacy Corned Beef And Cabbage was the musical highlight.

    Not the best Cary Grant film though the wild taxi chase in the end does liven the film up somewhat.
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    Plot summary of Kiss and Make Up

    Dr. Maurice Lamar is a world famous, egotistical, Parisian plastic surgeon. He prides himself on making women slaves to their new beauty. Maintenance, always maintenance. Overt innuendo abounds that his patients, once transformed by his skilled hand, become his conquests. His affairs he refers to as "lovely episodes."

    Enamored of his masterpiece, Madame Caron, they soon ditch her husband and marry. We soon see that "Dr. Frankenstein" has married his monster. The moral of the story is that Dr. Lamar discovers that it's no fun to love (Kiss) a woman,when that same woman has become obsessed with her looks, figure and Makeup to the exclusion of all else. Beauty, truly, is in the eye of the beholder.
    7barrymn1

    For Gosh sakes, it's a silly movie, yes, but it's also a pre-code funfest

    maybe I'm a fool for silly Depression comedies, but even though "Kiss And Make-Up" is a very minor comedy, and not particularly well written, it does have most of the elements needed for people who love pre-code Depression films to enjoy it.

    Everybody knows that Cary Grant's Paramount films were generally weak, and that he was nowhere close to establishing his screen personality during these early years.

    I had never seen this film before, and I quite enjoyed it. But, jeez, gang, you haven't lived until you've heard Cary Grant, Helen Mack and Edward Everett Horton attempt to belt out the songs! Absolutely incredible. Some of the worst examples of singing in a film from a major studio.

    You will enjoy it too....if you sit back and not expect a "Citizen Kane"-quality screenplay!
    7deeskodi

    Enjoyable Movie!

    I prefer to watch the classics of the 30's 40's & 50's over any of the mindless garbage todays writers come up with.

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    • Trivia
      Helen Mack replaced Carole Lombard, who refused to do the role.
    • Quotes

      Marcel Caron: What right have you to classify my wife as a public conveyance?

    • Connections
      Featured in L'univers du rire (1982)
    • Soundtracks
      Corn Beef and Cabbage I Love You
      Lyrics by Leo Robin

      Music by Ralph Rainger

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    • Release date
      • July 13, 1934 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • En doktor på modet
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 18 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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