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  • The Three Kisses (1909)
  • Short | Short, Comedy, Romance
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The Three Kisses (1909)
Short | Short, Comedy, Romance
A Hallowe'en story. It concerns itself with a mischievous young woman, a more than audacious youth, an automobile breakdown and a domestic hurricane, good elements for trouble of the comic sort. The first of the three kisses herein to be ...See moreA Hallowe'en story. It concerns itself with a mischievous young woman, a more than audacious youth, an automobile breakdown and a domestic hurricane, good elements for trouble of the comic sort. The first of the three kisses herein to be made famous is taken by our hero only after more than usual provocation. He lends "first aid to the injured" by helping the little heroine's chauffeur to repair her automobile and she does not even deign to smile upon him. This added to the fact that she is a most bewitching young woman is surely ample excuse for his stealing the first kiss and promptly whirling himself away in his own machine before she can tell him what she thinks. Of course only Fate herself could so arrange matters that these two young folk should find themselves guests of the same host that very evening and only Fate could provide that the cook and maid should quarrel and so the hostess be left with no one to serve the dinner so carefully planned to please our hero, young Astorbilt. But even fate might not have thought of the next move, for the young woman promptly offers to dress as the maid, serve the dinner and so perhaps play a joke upon the young man, who is still ignorant of her arrival at the house. The plan succeeds admirably, for the young man. He sees the girl he had kissed appear as the maid in the house where he is being entertained and of course a young social lion really ought to be privileged to kiss a pretty housemaid. Therefore he does so, and scores kiss the second. But the plot thickens when there appears among the guests at the Hallowe'en party a young woman who seems to be the same, but who appears not to know him and to treat him with quiet frigidity. Our hero is puzzled and unable to guess whether his eyes deceive him or whether it is the girl, but when in the course of the games the girl is sent out to try the time-honored way of reading the future by walking backward holding a lighted candle in one hand and a mirror in the other, in the hope that "the one man" will show himself over her shoulder in the dark, our hero decides to try to solve the mystery. Of course he does so and of course he gets the third kiss, but this time he doesn't really have to steal it. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Edwin S. Porter
Writers
Edwin S. Porter (scenario) | Carolyn Wells (story)
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Updated Oct 29, 1909
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Oct 29, 1909 (United States)

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