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The very first kiss on film was between a Victorian couple seen in the Edison kinetoscope The May Irwin Kiss (1896) (aka The Kiss, or The Irwin-Rice Kiss in a filmed scene from the stage play The Widow Jones). This titillating short 20-second film, with a close-up of a kiss, was denounced as shocking and pornographic to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship.
Early films featuring tales of fallen women or working girl prostitutes included Biograph's silent The Girl Who Went Astray (1900), the melodramatic Traffic in Souls (1913) (see above), and Sadie Thompson (1928) (based upon W. Somerset Maugham's forbidden play Rain - with a changed title) with Gloria Swanson as the Pago Pago tramp. Also, there were two films with Greta Garbo: Anna Christie (1930) (http://www.filmsite.org/anna.html), and Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) - Garbo's fourth talking picture and the first Hollywood talkie to portray a fallen woman/prostitute (or 'cooch dancer at a carnival').
American actress Louise Brooks was featured as an amoral and insatiable cabaret star/prostitute Lulu in G. W. Pabst's classic German silent film melodrama Pandora's Box (1929, Ger.) with blatant sexual themes, a memorable lesbian dance/tango scene with Countess Anna Geschwitz (Alice Roberts) during Lulu's wedding party, and her murder by the infamous 'Jack the Ripper' killer with a gleaming knifeblade stuck into her stomach during an erotic embrace.
The very first kiss on film was between a Victorian couple seen in the Edison kinetoscope The May Irwin Kiss (1896) (aka The Kiss, or The Irwin-Rice Kiss in a filmed scene from the stage play The Widow Jones). This titillating short 20-second film, with a close-up of a kiss, was denounced as shocking and pornographic to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship.
Early films featuring tales of fallen women or working girl prostitutes included Biograph's silent The Girl Who Went Astray (1900), the melodramatic Traffic in Souls (1913) (see above), and Sadie Thompson (1928) (based upon W. Somerset Maugham's forbidden play Rain - with a changed title) with Gloria Swanson as the Pago Pago tramp. Also, there were two films with Greta Garbo: Anna Christie (1930) (http://www.filmsite.org/anna.html), and Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) - Garbo's fourth talking picture and the first Hollywood talkie to portray a fallen woman/prostitute (or 'cooch dancer at a carnival').
American actress Louise Brooks was featured as an amoral and insatiable cabaret star/prostitute Lulu in G. W. Pabst's classic German silent film melodrama Pandora's Box (1929, Ger.) with blatant sexual themes, a memorable lesbian dance/tango scene with Countess Anna Geschwitz (Alice Roberts) during Lulu's wedding party, and her murder by the infamous 'Jack the Ripper' killer with a gleaming knifeblade stuck into her stomach during an erotic embrace.