Kiss Me Again (1931 film) - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia

Kiss Me Again is a 1931 American Pre-Code musical operetta film filmed entirely in Technicolor. It was originally released in the United States as Toast of the Legion late in 1930, but was quickly withdrawn when Warner Bros. realized that the public had grown weary of musicals. The Warner Bros. believed that this attitude would only last for a few months, but, when the public proved obstinate, they reluctantly re-released the film early in 1931 after making a few cuts to the film.

kiss me again 1930 bernice claire and walter pidgeon

Music

When the film was re-released in 1931, most of Walter Pidgeon's songs were cut from the film. Only a small abbreviated version of one of his songs is heard on the existing print.

Songs

Ah! But in Dreams So Fair

Alas! To Part, How Great the Sorrow

I Want What I Want When I Want It

If I Were On the Stage

Kiss Me Again

The Mascot of the Troop

Clothes Parade

A Make Believe Ladies Man

Pan Americana

Ballet Medley

Air de Ballet

The Time, the Place and the Girl

Preservation

Only a black-and-white copy of the cut print released in 1931 in the United States seems to have survived. The complete film was released intact in countries outside the United States under the title of Toast of the Legion where a backlash against musicals never occurred. It is unknown whether a copy of this full version still exists.