Kissed (1922 film)

Kissed
Kissed
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	King Baggot
Written by	Doris Schroeder
Based on	"Kissed"; by Arthur Somers Roche
Starring	Marie Prevost ; Lloyd Whitlock ; Lillian Langdon
Cinematography	Ben Bail
Production; company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	May 22, 1922;
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Kissed is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by King Baggot and starring Marie Prevost, Lloyd Whitlock, and Lillian Langdon.^[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[3] irrepressible young woman Constance Keener (Prevost) has her own ideas about choosing a husband. At a masquerade ball she is kissed by a stranger and thinks she has found her ideal. However, she is unable to determine which of three men, dressed alike, delivered the kiss. She finally decides it was Dr. Moss (Whitlock) and agrees to elope with him. While leaving on a train she discovers, when he kisses her, that Dr. Moss is not the man from the ball. When the train is held up by a bandit and she is kissed by the "highwayman," she then finds her ideal, the young millionaire Merson Torrey (Glendon) who originally sought her hand.

Cast

Marie Prevost as Constance Keener
Lloyd Whitlock as Dr. Sherman Moss
Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Keener
J. Frank Glendon as Merson Torrey
Arthur Hoyt as Horace Peabody
Percy Challenger as Editor Needham
Harold Miller as Bobb Rennesdale
Marie Crisp as Miss Smith
Harold Goodwin as Jim Kernochan

Preservation

A copy of Kissed is held by the Museum of Modern Art.^[4]

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: Kissed at silentera.com
^ Munden, p. 409.
^ "Reviews: Kissed". Exhibitors Herald. 14 (23). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 50. June 3, 1922.
^ American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Kissed

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.