Movies On The Radio: What Is Your Most Memorable On-Screen Kiss?

WUNC | By Laura Lee,

Published January 21, 2015 at 3:06 PM EST

There can be no doubt Hollywood loves the kiss. New York Times film critic A.O. Scott examines the history of lip-locking on the silver screen in his recent piece, A Brief History of Kissing in The Movies.

From the heart-melting embrace between Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca to the juicy, upside-down make-out between Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man, movie-goers have plenty of opportunities to get up-close and personal with film stars. But some kisses are more memorable than others. Tell us which silver-screen smooches made your heart flutter, your eyes water...or maybe your skin crawl.

Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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