A Kiss from Mary Pickford

A Kiss From Mary Pickford
Movie poster
Directed bySergei Komarov
StarringIgor Ilyinsky
Anel Sudakevich
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Vera Malinovskaya
CinematographySergei Komarov[1]
Distributed byMezhrabpom-Rus
Release date
  • 9 September 1927 (1927-09-09)
Running time
6 reels
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesSilent film
Russian intertitles
A Kiss from Mary Pickford

A Kiss From Mary Pickford (Russian: Поцелуй Мэри Пикфорд, romanized: Potseluy Meri Pikford) is a 1927 Soviet silent comedy film made and directed by Sergei Komarov and co-written by Komarov and Vadim Shershenevich. The film, starring Igor Ilyinsky, is mostly known today because of a cameo by popular American film couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, who play themselves. The scenes featuring the couple were shot during their visit to the USSR. A legend claims that Pickford and Fairbanks did not know that footage of them would be used in a Soviet fiction film. In reality, the couple knowingly participated to the project as a gesture towards the Russian film industry.[2][3]

A print of the film still exists and is preserved at the Library of Congress.[4] The film was shown during the Berlin International Film Festival in February 1991 and at San Francisco Silent Film Festival Winter Festival at the Castro Theatre in February 2009.

Plot

Goga Palkin is a theatre check-taker in love with a beginner actress named Dusya. She has a crush on Douglas Fairbanks and only wants to date someone famous like a Hollywood star. After a chance meeting and a kiss from Mary Pickford, Goga becomes a local celebrity, and a lot of girls chase him through the streets. The popularity of her admirer makes Dusya jealous, and she falls for him.[4]

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ Book of Lists #3 (Patrick Robertson's 10 Favorite Movie Oddities) p. 196 ISBN 0-553-27868-1
  2. ^ Whitfield, Eileen (1997). Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 245.
  3. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 175.
  4. ^ a b "Russian Films in the Library of Congress". Library of Congress. 15 April 2009. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.


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