A Kiss for Corliss (1949)
1949 · Feature film · 84 min · dir. Richard Wallace
CORLISS COULD DO NO WRONG ...but brother How She Tried!
- Comedy
Synopsis
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Richard Wallace
- Writer
- Howard Dimsdale
- Cinematography
- Robert De Grasse
- Studio
- Strand Productions, United Artists
- Released
- 1949-11-25
- Series
- Kiss Collection
- Running time
- 84 minutes
Cast & crew
Richard Wallace Director
Shirley Temple
David Niven
Tom Tully
Virginia Welles
Darryl Hickman
Gloria Holden
Robert Ellis
Kathryn Card
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · OMG TOO Funny!! · ghostmadl · 2014-03-02
I know movies with Shirley Temple as a teenager or older sometimes get a bad rap, but this was really good. A fun flighty teenagery flick :)
★★★★ · Better than the first one... · zhiro · 2014-07-25
This is a sequel to Kiss and Tell, which I've finally found and watched this week. This sequel is much better, more polished and truly witty, with better plot and performances. Besides all that, Niven's performance is wickedly delightful and a drastic upgrade from the first picture which Temple had to carry almost entirely herself. Temple herself is 21 here, a beautiful young woman in her last film, so you're in safe territory if you find her attractive. (The wardrobe department certainly isn't trying to obscure her short curvy figure.) The character of Corliss, however, is about as sweet and…
