This board has been started at the request of the excellent Charlotte (the Kevin Costner lady). She and a friend have been compiling a list of favorite screen kisses. "The ones that make your knees weak. The ones you wanna fast forward through the whole movie to get to." Carlotte will be making a "power tape" of these kisses and would like your input. What are your favorites? This is the list she has so far: Those kisses we love to watch... The Whole Wide World (On the cliff, above the river) French Kiss (On the train) The English Patient (Actually when he touches her face) St. Elmo's Fire (When Mare and Rob finally kiss) Revenge (The cabin) Quigly Down Under (When she tries to seduce him) Pretty Woman (When she kisses him in his sleep) Jerry McGuire (That scene on the porch) The Presidio (In front of the fire place) Last of the Mohicans (In the big room - hands...) Dante's Peak (In the kitchen and at the end) LadyHawke (Final scene where he lifts her up) Parting Glances (In the shower) Mary Queen of Scotts (In the bedchamber with hubby fast asleep) Working Girl (The first one) Witness (In the grass) Paradise (Just before she pushed him away) White Palace (Just about any of them) Sixteen Candles (At the end over the cake) Bull Durham (In the kitchen and bath) Home for the Holidays (The accidental kiss) Regarding Henry (On the balcony) Robin and Marion (Kiss from behind, sitting on river bank) Strange Days (The last 2 minutes of the film) The Cutting Edge (End. Leaning her back on the ice.)

Persuasion!

Wait wait Wait! you cannot forget A Room With A View: (George and Lucy sitting on the window sill at the end of the movie, ooohhh, they do more than just kiss!) I have a poster of this scene up in my room...I still get tingly no matter how often I look at it!

Oh god. How could we have forgotten the one at the end of Persuasion? Thank you thank you thank you. And I need to rewatch a room with a view, but I remember some weak knees during the scene you mention. Thanks, ladies! Two more on our list!

No Way Out - back seat of the limo.... though I seem to recall it was more than just a kiss....;-)

oh oh oh.... and Green Card - right at the end, outside the Africa Cafe, when he is about to get deported.

Baby Boom -- by the side of the road...in the snow...

Yes! This is just what I need! Of course I'll have to watch all these again before I pass judgment. :) Yeah, right. Like I'm likely to leave any of these gems off my tape! I had completely forgotten about Baby Boom. And I've rewound to rewatch the limo scene from NO WAY OUT so often that I just assumed it would climb onto the list by itself. :) I'm renting GREEN CARD tomorrow. I don't remember that Gerard ever kisses Andie at ALL in that movie. My damn senile memory banks often fail me.

We mustn't forget "the kiss" in Richard Gere's FIRST KNIGHT!!! It was incredible!

Ooh...Charlotte...Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life...the one while he's on the telephone. Oooooooh!

Damn, Nan! I'm gonna have to tape that whole darn telephone conversation! But it'll be worth it.

Oh GOD! How could I have forgotten?!?! The end of "Cinema Paradiso" where 'Toto' is now a famous film director, and he's spliced back all the kissing scenes from the movies he projected back in his hometown (because the local priest had banned all kissing scenes). and on a side note, did any of you notice how the actor who plays the adult Toto looks SO MUCH like Colin Firth?? (I wonder if Livia drooled over that actor before she met Colin)

[making note to rewatch Cinema Paradiso] I may have to stay home from work a few days to catch up. :)

Hello people!I just found this place via the Richard Gere message board and am happy to see someone included Our Hero Richard on the list of great kisses.I am a devoted regular on the RG board and must tell you ANY and ALL of Richards kisses are noteworthy.

Richard knows how to kiss, that's for certain. Why not list some more notable ones for me, Julie?

Baby Boom: By the side of the road has my vote but in the refrigerator as well! C'mon now: Rhett Butler kissing Scarlett after she's buried her second hubby. The one where she says she's going to faint and he says she was made to be kissed and often. Ohh, I'm going to have to consult my film lib at home tonight for more!!

Is everyone forgetting the most talked about kiss at the moment?... Beautiful sunset... very high up... gentle breeze... calm ocean... TITANIC! I think Leo and Kate captured it perfectly.

Itwas indeed a good kiss. May be awhile before I get hold of the tape, though. :)

Braveheart: William and Murron morning after their wedding. Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Malcolm and Helen walking up hill at end.

Even though this was on the *small* screen, you must have Richard Chamberlain chasing Rachel Ward on the beach in Thorn Birds and the kiss that ensues when he catches her.... Speaking of beach kisses, there is the all-time famous Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the surf kiss in "From Here to Eternity." ;-)

A screen is a screen. :) I think that Lancaster/Kerr scene has lost its effect for me because I've seen it so often. When that film came out, that scene caused quite a commotion, but it is very tame by today's standards. The Thorn Birds kiss goes on the tape.

So what's the ruling on the GWTW kiss? ;-)

I have to see it again, to fairly judge. I'm a tad biased because Clark Gable doesn't do it for me so any kiss from him leaves my knees stable and unshaking. But in fairness to all of you, I will look at that kiss again and let you know. Has anyone besides me seen Vincent D'Onofrio and Renee Zellweiger in The Whole Wide World? That kiss is at the very top of my list, but it's a sleeper and not too many people have seen it.

Oooh Karen!! Good one...Thornbirds...Richard Chamberlain...YUM!! ;-D Charlotte, no...I haven't seen The Whole Wide World...but I've seen so many trailers I feel like I've seen it :-/

Do the trailers include the kiss?

Do the trailers include the kiss? I don't remember seeing it. How is the movie?

Quite good. It's based on fact. D'Onofrio is fabulous. (When is he not?) Well worth the rental fee.

Luke and Laura in the '80's;)

Oh no fair! How am I supposed to find tapes of Luke and Laura in the 80's??

next week 35th anniversary of GH is on primetime, set your vcr!!!

1. Isabella Rossolini and Kyle Mclachlan in Blue Velvet. 2. Bathtub scene in the English Patient (the whole bit- every touch, every nuanced line of dialogue). 3. The clinch scene in the end of Maurice, between Rupert Graves and James Wilby. The passion on Ruperts face as he looks up is heart-stopping. 4. Leo D. kissing anyone, from Kate Winslet to David Thewlis. I especially like the little peck he plants on David Thewlis's cheek after rocking his world (in Total Eclipse).

Excellent list, pip! Thanks so much! lordy, there's gonna be some weak knees in my living room tonight. :)

The end kiss of "Mr Deeds goes to Town" with Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur (1937) Have anybody seen this one? And I am a huge Gable fan so a kiss from his "Mutiny on the Bounty" with his native wife: when he sees the palms waving and tingling as he is kissing her. Nobody was better at kissing in his movies than Hitchcock. The best kiss ever: the two-minute marathon kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in "Nototrious" which they interrupt every few seconds and then continue nibbling at each other. The kisses in "Vertigo" between James Stewart and Kim Novak: the first time I saw them they made me feel wobbly. The hilarious sweet kiss at the end of Hitch's "The Lady Vanishes" Gotta think some more (grin)

How about the kiss in GHOST, starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore? The one where she's working on her ceramic molds and he comes and sits in back of her. The music gets going, and before you know it, she's in his arms, legs are wrapped around him, and phew! Well, it was pretty hot! :-)

Ghost.... I don't know, I always found that one kind of nauseous. Put me off pottery forever ;-)

Wait a minute...isn't the record for the longest on-screen kiss held by The Thomas Crown Affair? Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. Oh, Charlotte, that one has to be on your tape, but it can make you dizzy! ;-)

(Marsha) Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman... James Stewart and Kim Novak... Now, here is a woman who has been paying attention! ;-) (Margaret, dear lady of the boots) How about the kiss in GHOST, starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore? The one where she's working on her ceramic molds and he comes and sits in back of her. (Kate) I don't know, I always found that one kind of nauseous. Put me off pottery forever ;-) LOL, Kate! Yes, so messy...and not even edible ;-p Not that I dig that sort of thing anyway. Before I go off on a very kinky tangent, back to the kiss: I don�t know...Demi Moore ticks me off. I have no idea why, she just does. But Patrick Swayze...hot damn, he makes up for it! ;-) Yes...this one gets my vote for his sake.

LOL I agree with you on Patrick Swayze, Nan, the man is hot! LOL Thanks for including him on your list of favorite screen kisses. :-)

Ok, my favorite movie of all time is Lady & the Tramp. And I love the kissing scene. Aaahh, anticipation

Mine would have to be that good old sappy movie Breakfast at tiffaneys and that seen in the alley .

Carolyn, I love that movie! Whaddya say Charlotte? ;-) (Jerry) Mine would have to be that good old sappy movie Breakfast at tiffaneys and that seen in the alley Sappy works for me. I haven't seen this movie in years. Another one I have to add to the "rent" list. BTW, Jerry...welcome to the playground :-)

Tiffany's, yes. But though it was sweet and cute, I can't say that the L&T kiss made me drool or made my knees weak! Did make me kinda hungry, tho. I found another one yesterday, myself. Gregory Peck/Ava Gardner, On The Beach, in the cabin, where the camera circles them 360degrees and a drunken chorus sings "Waltzing Matilda".

How about: A Walk in the Clouds -- Paul and Victoria following the grape stomping scene. Couldn't stand the movie, but the kiss is knee-weakening in my book. Little Women ('94 version) -- Teddy and Jo when he asks her to marry him and she turns him down. And maybe: Roman Holiday -- Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in the car just before she returns to the palace. Crossing Delancey -- Isabelle and Sam at the end in Bubbie's apartment. Anne of Avonlea -- Anne and Gil at the end, although the best is before that scene when he says to her, lying on his bed practically dying, "There'll never be anyone for me but you."

DEFINITELY the last scene between Rupert Graves and James Wilby in "Maurice". Also the first kiss of Tara Fitzgerald and Rupert Graves in "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", and all the kisses between Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in "Bull Durham". Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett in "Strange Days".

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Sorry, I'm new to this so forgive me if I get this wrong. I agree with darcy on March 30, in Anne of Green Gables the Gilbert dying scene makes that kiss at the end so beautiful. Also Titanic - I know it's the *thing* at the moment, but that really was heart-wrenching stuff. And also, I know it's not a kiss but I'm sure one followed it, the bit at the end of Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing, when Hero hugs Claudio and her hand just gets the bottom of his ear. For some reason, that made me all teary.

(Darcy) Anne of Avonlea -- Anne and Gil at the end, although the best is before that scene when he says to her, lying on his bed practically dying, "There'll never be anyone for me but you." (Jennie) I agree with darcy on March 30, in Anne of Green Gables the Gilbert dying scene makes that kiss at the end so beautiful. I�m with you two. AoA is one of my favorites. The kiss at the end isn�t exactly sexy, but it is sweet. (Jennie) Sorry, I'm new to this so forgive me if I get this wrong. You got it right, honey...and welcome ;-)

So, Charlotte--how's the tape coming? ;-)

Stalled. Currently I have no TV or VCR.

Oh, my! Just as bad as being without a computer. Poor dear :-(

Not at all! It was a voluntary decision. I am amazed by the amount of time I used to sit in front of the tube just "because it was there". I am reading more now, and finishing one crochet project after another. I still have to go to a freind's house to watch Party of Five, but I hope to wean myself of even that, someday soon. :)

I don't know if you have already made you tape as it has apparently been a while since this topic has been posted to, but here are some more! The Proposition-Ken Branagh and Madelaine Stowe kiss for the first time in the cabin. Elizabeth-Joseph Fiennes and Cate Blanchet in the first scene that he sneaks into her bedchamber.

No, I haven't made my tape. I doubt I ever will. I only have one VCR. :) But I still keep my list! I have not seen either of the movies you mention, but I will see if I can rent them and I'll add your two kisses to my list. Thank you! Charlotte