The Kiss of Fire

1937 film

The Kiss of Fire

Directed by| Augusto Genina
Written by|

* Marcel Achard
* Ernesto Grassi
* Henri Jeanson

Based on| Naples au baiser de feu by Auguste Bailly
Produced by|

* Raymond Hakim
* Robert Hakim

Starring|

* Tino Rossi
* Michel Simon
* Mireille Balin
* Viviane Romance

Cinematography| Robert Lefebvre
Edited by| Louisette Hautecoeur
Music by| Vincent Scotto

Production
company

Paris Film Productions

Distributed by| Les Films Vog

Release date

* 7 December 1937 (1937-12-07)

Running time

| 83 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

The Kiss of Fire (French: Naples au baiser de feu) is a 1937 French romantic comedy film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Tino Rossi, Michel Simon, Mireille Balin and Viviane Romance.[1] The film is based on the 1924 novel Naples au baiser de feu by Auguste Bailly. It had previously been made as a 1925 silent film and was later adapted again for a remake Napoli terra d'amore in 1954.

It was primarily shot at the Saint-Laurent-du-Var Studios in Nice with some location shooting in Naples. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne.

## Synopsis

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Mario Esposito a singer who performs in a Naples restaurant is in love with his owner's niece Assunta and wants to marry her. However through his friend Michel he encounters another woman, Lolita, who lures him away from his true love. Eventually he is able to see the mistake he is making.

## Cast

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* Tino Rossi as Mario Esposito
* Michel Simon as Michel
* Mireille Balin as Assunta
* Marcel Dalio as Le photographe
* Viviane Romance as Lolita
* Leda Ginelly as Sylvia
* Jane Loury as Tante Teresa
* Joe Alex as Le soutier
* Marcel Bauçay as l'écailler
* Lucien Callamand as Le dîneur
* Jean-François Martial as L'administrateur
* Georges Térof as Le vendeur

## References

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1. ^ Plastino & Sciorra p.128

## Bibliography

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* Goffredo Plastino & Joseph Sciorra. Neapolitan Postcards: The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject. Scarecrow Press, 2016.

## External links

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* The Kiss of Fire at IMDb

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The films of Augusto Genina

* Goodbye Youth (1918)
* The Prince of the Impossible (1918)
* The Beautiful Wife (1924)
* The Hearth Turned Off (1925)
* The Last Lord (1926)
* Goodbye Youth (1927)
* The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927)
* The Story of a Little Parisian (1928)
* Scampolo (1928)
* Love's Masquerade (1928)
* Latin Quarter (1929)
* Miss Europe (1930)
* The Darling of Paris (1931)
* The Lovers of Midnight (1931)
* The Woman Dressed as a Man (1932)
* We Are Not Children (1934)
* Forget Me Not (1935)
* The White Squadron (1936)
* Flowers from Nice (1936)
* The Phantom Gondola (1936)
* The Kiss of Fire (1937)
* Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering (1937)
* Castles in the Air (1939)
* The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
* Bengasi (1942)
* Heaven over the Marshes (1949)
* Devotion (1950)
* Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
* Maddalena (1954)
* Frou-Frou (1955)

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