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'''''The Kiss''''' is a [[1914 in film|1914]] [[Vitagraph Studios|Vitagraph]] [[silent film|silent]] [[drama film|drama]] [[short film|short]] [[film|motion picture]] starring [[Ella Margaret Gibson|Margaret Gibson]], [[George Holt (actor)|George Holt]], [[William Desmond Taylor]], and [[Myrtle Gonzalez]].<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/Kiss1914.html ''The Kiss'' at silentera.com database]</ref>
'''''The Kiss''''' is a [[1914 in film|1914]] [[Vitagraph Studios|Vitagraph]] [[silent film|silent]] [[drama film|drama]] [[short film|short]] [[film|motion picture]] starring [[Ella Margaret Gibson|Margaret Gibson]], [[George Holt (actor)|George Holt]], [[William Desmond Taylor]], and [[Myrtle Gonzalez]].<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/Kiss1914.html ''The Kiss'' at silentera.com database]</ref>


[[film director|Directed]] by [[Ulysses Davis]], the [[screenplay]] was based on a story by [[Marc Edmund Jones (writer)|Marc Edmund Jones]]. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on [[YouTube]]. The film is the only known surviving film in which director [[William Desmond Taylor]] appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star [[Ella Margaret Gibson|Margaret Gibson]], shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1922.
[[film director|Directed]] by [[Ulysses Davis]], the [[screenplay]] was based on a story by [[Marc Edmund Jones (writer)|Marc Edmund Jones]]. Long thought to have been a [[lost film]], a copy was found and put on [[YouTube]]. The film is the only known surviving film in which director [[William Desmond Taylor]] appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star [[Ella Margaret Gibson|Margaret Gibson]], shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1922.


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The Kiss
Directed byUlysses Davis
Written byMarc Edmund Jones (story)
StarringMargaret Gibson
George Holt
William Desmond Taylor
Myrtle Gonzalez
Release date
  • April 15, 1914 (1914-04-15)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent movie

The Kiss is a 1914 Vitagraph silent drama short motion picture starring Margaret Gibson, George Holt, William Desmond Taylor, and Myrtle Gonzalez.[1]

Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on YouTube. The film is the only known surviving film in which director William Desmond Taylor appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star Margaret Gibson, shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1922.

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  1. ^ The Kiss at silentera.com database
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