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.













![Paul Ford as Harry Lambert, Maureen O'Sullivan as Edith Lambert and Orson Bean as Charlie in %22Never Too Late%22.] Paul Ford as Harry Lambert, Maureen O'Sullivan as Edith Lambert and Orson Bean as Charlie in Never Too Late, 1962](https://i0.wp.com/newyorktheater.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/paul-ford-as-harry-lambert-maureen-osullivan-as-edith-lambert-and-orson-bean-as-charlie-in-22never-too-late22.jpg?w=435&h=351&ssl=1)




