The First Kiss
“All the world loves a lover.”
1928•NR•1h 1m•9.0•Released
Drama
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."
Director
Rowland V. Lee
Writer
John Farrow
Languages
No Language
Studio
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Cast
Fay Wray
Anna Lee
Gary Cooper
Mulligan Talbot
Lane Chandler
William Talbot
Leslie Fenton
Carol Talbot
Paul Fix
Ezra Talbot
Malcolm Williams
"Pap"
Monroe Owsley
Other suitor
George Nash
(uncredited)
Production
Company
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Company
Paramount Pictures
Producer
Adolph Zukor
Producer
Jesse L. Lasky
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