Kiss Me Kate; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Stage Kiss: There sure are a lot of kisses in the theater. Below:
Elizabeth Taylor kisses John Culllum in Private Lives in 1983, and Tallulah Bankhead kisses Donald Cook in Private Lives in 1948.
Sydney Chaplin kisses Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, 1964.
Faith Prince kisses Nathan Lane in Guys and Dolls in 1992.
Click on the photographs below, from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the New York Public Library, to see them enlarged, and to read the captions to learn who’s kissing who and when.
Annie Scott as Rosemary Pillkington kisses Robert Morse as J. Pierrepont Finch, as Rudy Vallee as the boss looks on shocked in How to Succeed in Business without really Trying 1961
Faith Prince as Miss Adelaide and Nathan Lane as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls 1992
Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice and Sydney Chaplin as Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl 1964
Elizabeth Taylor and John Cullum, Private Lives 1983
Donald Cook and Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives 1948
Louis Gossett as Willie Nurse and Cicely Tyson as Myrna Jessup in Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights 1968
Mary Martin as Venus and Kenny Baker as Rodney Hatch in One Touch of Venus. 1943
Trixie Friganza as Mrs. Waxtapper and George Beban as Pierre Souchet in The American Idea 1908
Gail Kane as Helena and George Nash as John Madison in The Miracle Man 1914
Margaret Barker as Laura Hudson and Alexander Kirkland as Dr. Ferguson in Men in White. 1933
Dorothy Mathews as Natalya Ivanovna and Hume Cronyn as Andrei Prozorov in The Three Sisters 1943
Robert Keith as Charles Dickens and Diana Barrymore as Caroline Bronson in Romantic Mr. Dickens, 1940
Diana Barrymore as Caroline Bronson and Robert Keith as Charles Dickens in Romantic Mr. Dickens, 1940
Paul Ford as Harry Lambert, Maureen O’Sullivan as Edith Lambert and Orson Bean as Charlie in Never Too Late, 1962
Stubby Kaye as Pooch Kearney, Alice Faye as Professor Kenyon, and John Payne as Bill Johnson in Good News 1974
Lovers, 1975. (Actors unidentified.)
Francesca da Rimini. Act V, Scene I, 1887
Mary Nash as Marcelle and Henry Hull as Henry Potter in The Man Who Came Back 1916
Jessica Hecht and Dominic Fumusa in Stage Kiss, 2014
