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  • 2019-10-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Are These Photos from Life Magazine's 'Guide to Kissing'? (en)
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  • A set of photographs supposedly published in a Guide to Kissing by Life magazine in 1942 is frequently shared on social media: These pictures were truly published in a 1942 issue of Life. However, the caption that frequently accompanies these photographs — Life Magazine's Guide to Kissing, 1942 — does not accurately provide the context in which they were originally published. For one, these pictures are not demonstrating how romantic real-life partners should show their affection but how actors and actresses should kiss while on stage. These photographs were published in the September 1942 issue of Life in a section entitled Speaking of Pictures ... This is What You Learn At Stage School. In addition to showing young actors how to kiss, this section also illustrated how to fall down stairs and pick up objects with proper posture. The photographs in this section were based on a small handbook called Stage Technique Made Easy by Selma Paley Morosco and Athea Lounsbury. Here's how these photographs were introduced in Life: The four pictures demonstrating the right and wrong ways to kiss on stage were also accompanied by little notes describing why the technique was considered proper or improper. In short, the caption that frequently accompanies these pictures makes it seem as if Life talked to a love expert about the proper way to show affection and then published a Guide to Kissing. But that isn't the case. While these photographs were truly published in Life in 1942, they were included in a piece focused on proper stage technique for actors and actresses. (en)
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