Just finished watching The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, someone once mentioned that great screen romances involved couples that were not able to kiss. Besides The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, I do remember that Billy Wilder’s The Apartment was like that too.
Any other romantic movies were the lovers never kiss?
Almost every movie with gay males in it ever produced for a mainstream audience.
Driving Miss Daisy
Patroclos & Achilles in Troy
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon? I remember that the lovers were extremely honorable and not in circumstances that would have allowed them to carry on on a true physical romance. I don’t remember if they got to kiss or not. (I’ve got to start paying attention in movies, lately I haven’t been.)
Well… yes Otto :dubious: , but I am asking for examples, “almost every movie” does not help.
Good ones Sampiro.
*My Fair Lady/Pygmalion * (though strangely they did have oral sex in the deleted scenes)
Sleepless in Seattle They don’t even meet until the last few seconds
Cactus Flower (Matthau & Bergman)
Doctor Doolittle (I’m referring to Rex Harrison/Samantha Eggar, not the Eddie Murphy version)
Gone With the Wind Scarlett kisses Rhett but never kisses her first two husbands (though she had a child by each in the book)
The Lion in Winter Eleanor & Henry, passionate lovers at one time, hug but never kiss (though Henry does kiss his mistress in front of Eleanor and Eleanor almost incestuously liplocks her son Richard), while Richard & King Philip stop just short of a kiss in a very tense scene in which their former affair is discussed.
They kissed at the end, right before Li Mu Bai died.
How about Sleepless in Seattle? Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks weren’t even together for most of the film.
Hmmm, was it in Rex Harrison’s contract a clause to never to kiss the leading lady? 
Age of Innocence. Pfieffer and Day-Lewis at one point hold hands (it’s an oddly sensous scene) , but that’s about it.
“Where” the lovers never kiss!!!
Sorry, just had to get that out of my system . . .
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I’ll have to make sure to not show my sheltered, gray-haired grandmotherly mom these deleted scenes. She’d be very shocked. 
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That is ok Eve, I deserve that. I have to thank you. As I am back in college, I need the help of all the grammar nazis in the SDMB!
He was married six times and had a well publicized extramarital affair with Carole Landis (who committed suicide when it ended), so maybe he just didn’t want to tempt the fates with another divorce or scandal. (Those I’ve read who knew him did not seem to like him.)
*Cyrano de Bergerac *! Love the final scene with Cyrano and Roxane.
Hmm. If Rex Harrison had a “No Kissing” clause, so did Tom Hanks, Consider:
Punchline
A League of Their Own
Sleepless in Seattle
Apollo 13 (Okay, no romantic interest in that one…)
Come to think of it, the only movie I vividly remember him in where he makes out with anyone is Dragnet. and actually, he was only coming up for air and checking the condom supply. Has he ever had an on-air kiss? Does he have halitosis or something? I think he kissewd Daryl Hannah in Splash, but that might have been “buddy breathing.”
Okay, Tom Hanks locked lips with the matronly chaperone in A League of Their Own, but that was for comic effect. For a romantic leading man, the guy swaps surprisingly little spit.
He unbuttons her glove to kiss her wrist (very sensuous, yes). But actual lip-lock? No.
Thank you for not busting me–I’m a copy editor, and just can’t restrain myself sometimes . . .
His Girl Friday, I think.
I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned The Remains of the Day.