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Kiss And Make-up

1934, Movie, NR, 78 mins

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Slight but still timely, this offbeat romantic comedy lampoons fad dieting, cosmetic surgery mania and celebrity beauty experts. Suave parisian Dr. Maurice Lamar (Cary Grant) runs an expensive clinic for looks-conscious women, using his daily radio show to spread his name and sell his private line of beauty creams. He falls for the charms of his best patient, Eve Caron (Genevieve Tobin), whom he's nipped, tucked and polished within an inch of her life, only to discover that b... read more leave a comment
Year: 1934
Rated NR

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Cast
Cary Grant: Dr. Maurice Lamar
Helen Mack: Anne
Genevieve Tobin: Eve Caron
Lucien Littlefield: Max Pascal
Mona Maris: Countess Rita
Edward Everett Horton: Marcel Caron

 

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