# Best kisses on film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916 "2004-06-06T05:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/1 "2004-06-06T05:28:28Z")
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”](http://www.life.com/Life/special/kiss01a.html) 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? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/2 "2004-06-06T05:34:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/3 "2004-06-06T06:53:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/4 "2004-06-06T06:53:15Z")
An odd choice to be sure, but I thought the kiss between Peter and Wendy in last years live action [Peter Pan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316396/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/5 "2004-06-06T06:56:52Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/6 "2004-06-06T07:41:10Z")
It’s been many years but I seem to remember a pretty hot kiss in _THX-1138_, which was otherwise a fairly cold movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/7 "2004-06-06T08:11:11Z")
Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in _Notorious_. Nothing else even comes close, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/8 "2004-06-06T11:20:10Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > And actual, non-fiction kisses that have been photographed count, if only to include the [“Times Square VJ Day”](http://www.life.com/Life/special/kiss01a.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/9 "2004-06-06T12:08:13Z")
How is this for obscure? Margaret Langrick & John Wildman. **My American Cousin**. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/10 "2004-06-06T12:34:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/11 "2004-06-06T12:38:54Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/12 "2004-06-06T13:23:36Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/13 "2004-06-06T13:43:56Z")
"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?) ---
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/14 "2004-06-06T13:46:12Z")
When I saw Spiderman for the first time I thought that kiss in the rain would become a classic.- ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/15 "2004-06-06T14:01:40Z")
My all-time favourite is Grace Kelly’s slow-motion kiss of Jimmy Stewart in _Rear Window_. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/16 "2004-06-06T16:34:27Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/17 "2004-06-06T17:04:54Z")
> [@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_… ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/18 "2004-06-06T17:19:17Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/19 "2004-06-06T20:44:03Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916/20 "2004-06-06T22:02:13Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kisses-on-film/248916.md?page=2)