Tweet Bird Kissing. It's not just for Lillian Gish.

http://cuteoverload.com/2010/04/08/have ... ird-today/

Have you seen Asquith's Shooting Stars, where the 'star' is led away, bleeding from such an encounter???

Have you seen Asquith's Shooting Stars, where the 'star' is led away, bleeding from such an encounter???

I haven't. (Scribble, scribble.) Now added to my list. What was the star kissing, a condor?

I don't remember the star kissing the bird, but this is an entertaining, dark, filmmaking backstory, with a strong influence of German expressionism.

I wonder if this was how Billie Ritchie's mishap with the ostrich got started.

Likely it was Ida.

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Bob

Have you seen Asquith's Shooting Stars, where the 'star' is led away, bleeding from such an encounter???

I haven't. (Scribble, scribble.) Now added to my list. What was the star kissing, a condor?

No, a pigeon-type bird (c. Richie Benaud), I'm guessing a dove; it's the opening sequence of the film; Annette Benson, in a vignetted shot, surrounded by a lowet bough; in her hands the bird, which she kisses Gishlike; the ungrateful avian pecks her, she goes mad, and the shot pulls out to reveal that we are on the set of a ludicrous British-made western....Annette is led away; such is her popularity on-set that the lighting electrician decorates the bird with a cardboard medal.....
It's a fabulous film, the equal of his Cottage on Dartmoor or Underground....though it was actually directed by AV Bramble, Asquith wrote it and I believe learnt his directing during the making of this film.

Did i just see Dolores Costello kissing a bird?

greta

Just saw Mae Busch kiss a bird in the May 1915 Keystone A Human Hound's Triumph. It immediately reminded me of this vital thread. Was this the first bird kiss on film? My guess is not: Keystone was probably parodying something. Does anyone know what?

As the aspiring Dean of the Institute of Bird-Kiss Spotters, I would draw attention to Marguerite Clark in Snow White, Christmas 1916. Nobody can convince me that this wasn't the actual cause of Snow White's near-death experience.

I like Mary Pickford's reminiscence over her clashes with Griffith.
"I wasn't one of his simpering bird-kissing actresses..."

Such a feisty gal. And now I'm sure someone is going to dig up
a clip of Mary kissing a bird and shatter my illusions.

Gary J.

As the aspiring Dean of the Institute of Bird-Kiss Spotters, I would draw attention to Marguerite Clark in Snow White, Christmas 1916. Nobody can convince me that this wasn't the actual cause of Snow White's near-death experience.

IIRC, the animated Prince and/or SW do some bird kissing during "One Song."

Mary Pickford seems to have kissed a bird in Stella Maris. However, her superiority over other actresses of the era was demonstrated by 1) not getting involved with the bird; 2) doing it in the private confines of her own corporation and not for D.W. Griffith; and 3) not simpering while she did it.

Didn't Jane Darwell kiss birds in Mary Poppins?

Didn't Jane Darwell kiss birds in Mary Poppins?

Yes, but none of us are going to be jealous of those birds...

Jim

LOL.... poor old Miss Darwell....

how about Burt Lancaster in Alcatraz?

Did anyone kiss a bird in The Birds?

Just found a picture of Betty Bronson makin' nice with a birdie in a 1925 issue of Liberty, probably around the time when ARE PARENTS PEOPLE? was released.

The mostly likely candidate for bird kissing would seem to be Nell Shipman, given her penchant for nuzzling animals. Strangely, I don't ever recall seeing her doing such a scene with a bird, but then maybe she preferred four legged critters. I recall my trepidation during the scene from Back to God's Country, wondering if she was going to cuddle the porcupine that strolled up the blanket, while she was sitting in bed.

Bird Kissing just turned up at the Cruel & Unusual Comedy Show at New York's Museum of Modern Art -- running through this weekend. In TIME FLIES, Lupino Lane kisses a pigeon

Bob

Just saw Henry and Lillian's bird kissing sequence in BIRTH.

The Last Days Of Pompeii (1913 Italy)

Actress Fernanda Negri Pouget, playing blind-flower-girl-slave Nidia nuzzles a bird (a pigeon?) at pool-side.
Being blind, she can't really kiss the bird on its beak, but at least she finds the right end.

Later, a Sorceress (!) cuddles up to her just-deceased large lizard.
It was so good for spells too!! I couldn't find the lizard-kissing thread, so I report that here.

Rick

"I kissed a bird. I liked i-it..."

The Last Days Of Pompeii (1913 Italy)

Actress Fernanda Negri Pouget, playing blind-flower-girl-slave Nidia nuzzles a bird (a pigeon?) at pool-side.
Being blind, she can't really kiss the bird on its beak, but at least she finds the right end.

Later, a Sorceress (!) cuddles up to her just-deceased large lizard.
It was so good for spells too!! I couldn't find the lizard-kissing thread, so I report that here.

Rick

I think that's fine. Cladistically, they're both dinosauria.

Bob

We have some incipient bird-kissing with Thelma Todd on the Movieland Mystery Photo this morning.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedail ... .html#more

More bird kissing. Tonight at the Mary Pickford Institute the 1909 Biograph short showed James Kirkwood kissing a wounded dove, which then Mary Pickford kisses twice, before kissing him.

It was in TENDER HEARTS.

No one mentioned Gibson Gowland smothering a sparrow with his lips in BIG closeup from GREED yet?

The only human-animal species smooching in silents more grotesque than that is Larry Semon sucking lips with Snooky (the Chimp, not the Jersey Shore chick) in THE STAR BOARDER (1919).

My girlfriend kisses our parrots all the time, I think the African grey headbutted her in the face once, but mostly she escapes unharmed.

No one mentioned Gibson Gowland smothering a sparrow with his lips in BIG closeup from GREED yet?

The only human-animal species smooching in silents more grotesque than that is Larry Semon sucking lips with Snooky (the Chimp, not the Jersey Shore chick) in THE STAR BOARDER (1919).

You think ???? You must have missed this, shown at The Giornate in it's Sacile days, late at night. I've left the description untranslated for the faint of heart.......but babelfish is your friend.... http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/ed_precedenti/screenings_recordit.php?ID=4939

The only human-animal species smooching in silents more grotesque than that is Larry Semon sucking lips with Snooky (the Chimp, not the Jersey Shore chick) in THE STAR BOARDER (1919).

You think ???? You must have missed this, shown at The Giornate in it's Sacile days, late at night. I've left the description untranslated for the faint of heart.......but babelfish is your friend.... http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/ed_precedenti/screenings_recordit.php?ID=4939

OH.MY.GOD! I'd blanked that one from my mind! Ew!!