# Movies were the lovers never kiss. (Mild spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445 "2004-05-16T17:40:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/1 "2004-05-16T17:40:38Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/2 "2004-05-16T17:49:55Z")
Almost every movie with gay males in it ever produced for a mainstream audience. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/3 "2004-05-16T17:51:36Z")
_Driving Miss Daisy_ Patroclos & Achilles in _Troy_ ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/4 "2004-05-16T17:55:37Z")
_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.) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/5 "2004-05-16T17:56:41Z")
Well… yes **Otto** :dubious: , but I am asking for examples, “almost every movie” does not help. Good ones **Sampiro**. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/6 "2004-05-16T18:04:26Z")
\*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. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/7 "2004-05-16T18:05:00Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > _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.) 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. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/8 "2004-05-16T18:19:33Z")
Hmmm, was it in Rex Harrison’s contract a clause to never to kiss the leading lady? 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 16, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/9 "2004-05-16T18:20:07Z")
_Age of Innocence_. Pfieffer and Day-Lewis at one point hold hands (it’s an oddly sensous scene) , but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/10 "2004-05-16T18:20:53Z")
“_Where_” the lovers never kiss!!! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system . . . ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/11 "2004-05-16T18:23:35Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > \*My Fair Lady/Pygmalion \* (though strangely they did have oral sex in the deleted scenes) :eek: I’ll have to make sure to not show my sheltered, gray-haired grandmotherly mom these deleted scenes. She’d be very shocked. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/12 "2004-05-16T18:30:21Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “_Where_” the lovers never kiss!!! > > Sorry, just had to get that out of my system . . . :smack: 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! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/13 "2004-05-16T18:49:06Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Hmmm, was it in Rex Harrison’s contract a clause to never to kiss the leading lady? 🙂 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/14 "2004-05-16T19:00:25Z")
\*Cyrano de Bergerac \*! Love the final scene with Cyrano and Roxane. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/15 "2004-05-16T19:20:58Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/16 "2004-05-16T19:35:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/17 "2004-05-16T20:02:46Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > _Age of Innocence_. Pfieffer and Day-Lewis at one point hold hands (it’s an oddly sensous scene) , but that’s about it. He unbuttons her glove to kiss her wrist (very sensuous, yes). But actual lip-lock? No. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/18 "2004-05-16T20:28:26Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > :smack: > > 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! 😉 Thank you for not busting me–I’m a copy editor, and just can’t restrain myself sometimes . . . ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/19 "2004-05-16T20:37:17Z")
_His Girl Friday_, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445/20 "2004-05-16T20:51:11Z")
I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned _The Remains of the Day._ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-were-the-lovers-never-kiss-mild-spoilers/245445.md?page=2)