The Kiss (1914 film)

The Kiss is a 1914 Vitagraph silent drama short motion picture starring Margaret Gibson, George Holt, William Desmond Taylor, and Myrtle Gonzalez.

Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on YouTube. The film is the only known surviving film in which director William Desmond Taylor appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star Margaret Gibson, shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1922.

Cast

 * Margaret Gibson ... Alice, a shop girl
 * George Holt ... Fred, her sweetheart
 * William Desmond Taylor ... George Dale, society man
 * Myrtle Gonzalez ... Helen, George's fiancée
 * Loyola O'Connor ... Landlady
 * Jane Novak ... Mazie, a saleslady