The Kiss is a 1914 Vitagraph silent drama short motion picture starring Margaret Gibson, George Holt, William Desmond Taylor, and Myrtle Gonzalez.
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.
GenresDrama ThemesFilms based on plays ActorsEdith Storey, William Desmond Taylor, George Holt, Otto Lederer, Myrtle Gonzalez Rating21% A melodrama about an American who becomes a revolutionary leader battling evil government spies in Argentina. William Desmond Taylor portrays the title role, and Denis Gage Deane-Tanner, Taylor's younger brother, is thought to have played the small role of a blacksmith.
, 13minutes GenresDrama ActorsCharles Bennett, Edwin August, Loyola O'Connor, Myrtle Gonzalez Rating56% La fille aînée d'un fermier aide sa mère du matin au soir pour nourrir ses nombreux frères et sœurs en rêvant secrètement d'aller étudier l'art au collège . Elle économise péniblement sou par sou pour payer son inscription. Hélas, ses espoirs s'évaporent quand le cheval de labour meurt et doit être remplacé pour la prochaine moisson...
Mary Ellen Ellis, une jeune fille de la campagne, part pour New York pour se marier avec Walter Benton. Elle se retrouve parmi des truands, mais elle arrive à remettre dans le droit chemin "Bull" Clark, un cambrioleur, qui lui voue alors un gratitude éternelle. Il la sauve de "La Fouine", qui l'avait suivie chez elle, mais lorsque Benton arrive, il voit Mary Ellen dans les bras de Clark et une bataille éclate alors entre eux deux. Benton est tué par La Fouine mais c'est Clark qui est accusé. Il s'évade et s'engage dans la Navy.
A man, suddenly gone blind, mistakes another woman for his wife. When nurse Hilda Nevers returns from the Orient, she is left penniless because her father has died. She goes to work at a hospital where Dr. Kitchell is impressed by her voice, which is almost identical to that of his lover, Evelyn Wentworth. Evelyn is engaged to Lawrence Sinton, but only for his money. On their wedding night, Sinton is blinded when a burglar hits him on the head. Hilda is substituted for Evelyn, who is then free to continue her affair with the doctor. A family friend finally exposes the situation, but by then, Hilda and Sinton have fallen in love. Sinton has an operation that restores his sight, and he and Hilda are united.