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A Kiss From Mary Pickford (Russian: Поцелуй Мэри Пикфорд, translit. Potseluy Meri Pikford) is a 1927 Soviet silent comedy film made in 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 the popular film couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. The footage of the couple was shot during their visit to the USSR, with the couple knowingly participating as a gesture towards the Russian film industry.
A print of the film still exists and is preserved at the Library of Congress. 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.
Original Release
09/08/1927
US Release
09/08/1927
Cast
Name | Character |
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Igor Ilyinsky | Goga |
Anel Sudakevich | Duzya Galkina |
Mary Pickford | Herself / Self |
M. Rosenstein | Tall psychopath |
Douglas Fairbanks | Himself / Self |
Nadezhda Sizova | Short psychopath |
Yakov Lents | Affectionate experimenter |
Aleksandr Glinsky | Film studio manager |
Vera Malinovskaya | Malinovskaya |
Abram Room |
Directors
Writers
Sergey Komarov, Vadim Shershenevich
Cast
Name | Character |
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Igor Ilyinsky | Goga |
Anel Sudakevich | Duzya Galkina |
Mary Pickford | Herself / Self |
M. Rosenstein | Tall psychopath |
Douglas Fairbanks | Himself / Self |
Nadezhda Sizova | Short psychopath |
Yakov Lents | Affectionate experimenter |
Aleksandr Glinsky | Film studio manager |
Vera Malinovskaya | Malinovskaya |
Abram Room | |
Vasili Bokarev | A young man |
Olga Bazanova | Appearing |
Vera Marinich | Appearing (not in credits) |
Nikolai Rogozhin |