The Kiss (1914)

4.5/10 10 min Drama

Overview

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 1921.

Cast

Patricia Palmer

Alice - a Shop Girl

William Desmond Taylor

George Dale - a Society Man

Myrtle Gonzalez

Helen - George's Fiancée

Loyola O'Connor

The Landlady

Jane Novak

Mazie - a Saleslady

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