{{short description|1927 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name =Stage Kisses | image = Stage Kisses.jpg | caption = | director = Albert H. Kelley | producer = Harry Cohn | writer = Dorothy Howell | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Kenneth Harlan|Helene Chadwick|Phillips Smalley}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = Joseph Walker | studio = Columbia Pictures | distributor =Columbia Pictures | released = {{Film date|1927|11|02}} | runtime = 56 minutes | country = United States | language = {{ubl|Silent|English intertitles}} | budget = | gross = }} '''''Stage Kisses''''' is a lost<ref>{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Stage Kisses |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9503/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012352/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9503/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2026-05-23 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref> 1927 American silent drama film directed by Albert H. Kelley and starring Kenneth Harlan, Helene Chadwick and Phillips Smalley.<ref>Munden p.761</ref>
==Synopsis== A wealthy man falls in love with an actress and marries her despite the fierce opposition of his mother. Later the mother plots to make it look as if her daughter-in-law is having an affair and break up the couple.
==Cast== * Kenneth Harlan as Donald Hampton * Helene Chadwick as Fay Leslie * John Patrick as Keith Carlin * Phillips Smalley as John Clarke * Ethel Wales as Mrs. John Clarke * Frances Raymond as Mrs. Hampton
== Censorship == Before ''Stage Kisses'' could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the reduction of a struggle scene by removing the part where a man kisses a woman's neck.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kansas Board of Review Movie Index - Kansas Historical Society |url=https://www.kansashistory.gov/statearchives/archives_board_of_reviews/search/film:Stage%20Kisses/company:/star:/elimination:/begyr:/endyr:/submit:SEARCH |access-date=2026-05-23 |website=www.kansashistory.gov}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0018444}}
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