Best kisses on film?

[Ranchoth]

I probably should have thought of this around Valentine’s Day, or something, but…bah, no matter.

Anyway, I was wondering…what would you all say are the best kisses ever put to film?

And actual, non-fiction kisses that have been photographed count, if only to include the “Times Square VJ Day” picture.

TV kisses do not qualify for this one. Maybe another time.

To start things off, the Hershey company gives us these top ten…

1.  Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind"
2.  Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in "Doctor Zhivago"
3.  Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"
4.  Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn in "Sabrina"
5.  Rock Hudson and Doris Day in "Pillow Talk"
6.  Molly Ringwald and Justin Henry in "Sixteen Candles"
7.  Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in "A Place in the Sun"
8.  Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald in "Breakfast Club"
9.  Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in "Singing in the Rain"
10.	Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke in "Reality Bites"

I can’t really comment on any of these choices, mostly because I’ve only ever seen Breakfast Club and Singing in the Rain. The latter when I was three years old, and the former I can’t remember the kiss in question at all.

But I will add that Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser’s first kiss in The Mummy seemed pretty memorable.

So…any thoughts?

[Rhiannon8404]

My favorite is in Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the end, when Audrey Hepburn kisses George Peppard in the rain with the cat tucked into her coat. It’s really sweet and touching, but the cat looks bored.

[SolGrundy]

Pee-Wee Herman and Valeria Golino’s kiss in Big Top Pee-Wee was, at least at the time, supposed to be the longest kiss in film history. I always liked her, because it’s rare to see a woman that hot who’s that comfortable doing completely non-sensical comedy.

[bienville]

An odd choice to be sure, but I thought the kiss between Peter and Wendy in last years live action Peter Pan was one of the most beautiful kisses ever filmed (sorry, make that “most beautiful thimbles ever filmed”).

Not just their first kiss with each other, but their first kiss with anyone. It made my bitter jaded old heart remember the thrill of discovering love during adolescence.

[Alessan]

@Rhiannon8404

My favorite is in Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the end, when Audrey Hepburn kisses George Peppard in the rain with the cat tucked into her coat. It’s really sweet and touching, but the cat looks bored.

Of course it was looking bored. It’s a cat.

Now, if instead of kissing, they were sharing a tuna sandwich, then you’d see interest.

[Hilarity_N.Suze]

It’s been many years but I seem to remember a pretty hot kiss in THX-1138, which was otherwise a fairly cold movie.

[Kaitlyn]

Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious. Nothing else even comes close, IMHO.

[Marley23]

@Ranchoth

And actual, non-fiction kisses that have been photographed count, if only to include the “Times Square VJ Day” picture.

I took a photojournalism course last year, and it sounds like a majority of experts think that picture was staged. Doesn’t make it any less memorable or anything, but maybe it pushes it out of the “non-fiction” category.

[Icerigger]

How is this for obscure? Margaret Langrick & John Wildman. My American Cousin.

[Cartooniverse]

Debra Winger and Richard Gere in An Officer And A Gentleman.

Man, they swapped spit as he carried her out.

A secondary one- amusing, torrid and painfully sweet in a way, was the making out /sex scene between Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment.

Cartooniverse

[Mycroft_Holmes]

Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling in the surf in From Here to Eternity. This kiss was so good, it has become a Hollywood Cliché.

[Eutychus]

Spoiler since I don’t want to give away the surprise at the end of the movie …

Not a single kiss, but the entire montage of banned kisses at the end of Cinema Paradiso

[DirkGntly]

"Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure; this one left them all behind.

The End."

• The Princess Bride

(Okay, I couldn’t help it - maybe not the best kiss in cinematic history, but certainly one of the most memorable, yes?)

[Estilicon]

When I saw Spiderman for the first time I thought that kiss in the rain would become a classic.-

[Hodge]

My all-time favourite is Grace Kelly’s slow-motion kiss of Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window.

[Guinastasia]

How about Princess Leia and Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back? The whole, “I happen to like nice men.” “I’m nice men.” “No you’re not, you’re-” smooch!

sigh

[BrotherCadfael]

@Hodge

My all-time favourite is Grace Kelly’s slow-motion kiss of Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window.

I’ll see this one and raise it by Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in the fireworks scene of To Catch A Thief…

[Ruby]

There is absolutely no better on-screen kiss than between Lady and Tramp in the Disney film of the same name.

Can you even look at spaghetti the same way?

[Quartz]

@Mycroft Holmes

Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling in the surf in From Here to Eternity. This kiss was so good, it has become a Hollywood Cliché.

Maybe I’m getting whooshed, but that wasn’t simply a kiss; it was an allegory for the female orgasm.

[Baldwin]

I was thinking of Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in On the Beach, holding each other in a long, hard kiss while drunks in the next room sing “Waltzing Matilda”. There’s a sense of sadness and loss and desperation; Peck knows his wife and his whole country are gone, and they both know there’s not long to live. Underrated movie, I think.

Oliver Reed and Uma Thurman as the god Vulcan and goddess Venus, in The Adventures of Baron Munschausen.

With hindsight, there’s a sick fascination with seeing Princess Leia frenching Luke in The Empire Strikes Back. She sure did like her brother.