Powerful

best movie i've ever seen.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Cary Grant is the famous Dr. Lamar, proprietor and doctor at a popular and very lucrative beauty clinic in Paris. The business is a huge success: Grant beautifies his patients with everything from diet and exercise advice to plastic surgery. He also sells face cream on the radio. A stylish opening sequence shows Grant entering his clinic and walking through to his office to great acclaim: everyone in the place is beautiful, everyone is smiling, and they are all delighted to see Dr. Lamar. He has a great gig. However....Personal secretary Helen Mack wishes that Grant would wake up and realize that all the women patients falling in love with him don't really know him. "It isn't you they fall for," she tells him. "It's just the trimmings."Expressing even stronger disapproval is Edward Everett Horton, a patient's husband who barges in and demands that Grant stop treating his wife-he likes her the way she is and doesn't want her beautified.Genevieve Tobin, the wife, is an extremely enthusiastic patient. When Grant finishes her treatments, he declares that she is "perfect," his greatest creation. When he further declares that he is done with her, however, Tobin notes, "He only thinks he is."From here the plot runs into a confusion of Tobin leaving Horton for Grant, while Mack does some hand-wringing and wishes that Grant would come to his senses and put his considerable skills to a more noble use. It's entertaining enough, though not really believable for a minute. Grant and Tobin do indeed look good, despite the rather obnoxious characters they play. And Helen Mack probably comes across best--at least, she plays the most appealing role. Grant sings a nice song, and appears actually to be playing the piano. Overall, it's more a curiosity than a film that works as a moral tale or even a light romance...however, if you want to see what a clinic staffed by the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1934 would look like, here's your chance.

In just two years, and with more than a dozen films behind him, Cary Grant was a hit and commanded star status and leads in most of his films. While many of his movies were very good, a few weren't much better than run-of-the mill. "Kiss and Make-Up" is one of those. The title of this movie is a play on words – make-up then being used to refer to women's makeup and cosmetics. Grant is a doctor in this film – a plastic surgeon living in Paris who has built his particular calling into a beauty empire. He will do the usual face-lifting and other surgeries, but much of his professional guidance is in diet, exercise, the use of special beauty products and all sorts of pampering practices for the body. It's a real body-worship plot in his beauty salon. But after he "creates" the perfect woman and she leaves her husband for him, he finds the tables turned. Grant plays Dr. Maurice Lamar who gets a dose of his own medicine. The perfect beauty is Genevieve Tobin as Eve Caron. The husband who liked his wife the way she was before and winds up divorced from here is Marcel Caron, played by Edward Everett Horton. Another principal character is Lamar's secretary-manager, Anne, played by Helen Mack. Lamar eventually comes to his senses and is saved from the hedonistic lifestyle of body-worship. The movie has a car chase and Cary Grant sings. He could carry a tune, but nothing like the noted singing stars. He also plays the piano – a talent he used some in later films and frequently in his personal life. Marcel and Anne have the only good song in the film – they both love their "Corn Beef and Cabbage."With all of the attention to physical beauty and the number of beauties in the salon, this film can soon begin to wear on one. The plot is thin and shallow. It's probably only of interest to die-hard Cary Grant fans.

Cary Grant, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Mack, and Edward Everett Horton star in "Kiss and Make Up," a 1934 film. Grant plays a popular plastic surgeon, Dr. Maurice Lamar (the film takes place in France). He falls for one of his makeovers (Tobin) who leaves her husband (Horton) and marries Lamar. Despite her looks, Lamar soon realizes he has created a monster. Meanwhile, Lamar's secretary Anne is in love with him and becomes increasingly unhappy as he seems to need her constantly but takes her for granted. Can you guess what happens? This actually is a musical with three songs, and Grant does his own singing. He must have - no one could have dubbed his awful tremolo. Other than that, he actually had a pleasant singing voice.A very slight comedy, and I was surprised to read that Carole Lombard was supposed to play the role of the secretary but turned it down. Good move. And that casting wouldn't have worked. Lombard was certainly too beautiful to have been ignored by Lamar. Mack was pretty without being an absolute knockout. Genevieve Tobin does a good job as the annoying Eve, and Horton is funny as her husband, who wants his wife's old looks and personality back.This film was really beneath Grant but he was too new to turn it down. He is perfect for the role of a handsome, dapper womanizer and is very good.See it for the young Grant, but don't expect too much.

maybe I'm a fool for silly Depression comedies, but even though "Kiss And Make-Up" is a very minor comedy, and not particularly well written, it does have most of the elements needed for people who love pre-code Depression films to enjoy it.Everybody knows that Cary Grant's Paramount films were generally weak, and that he was nowhere close to establishing his screen personality during these early years.I had never seen this film before, and I quite enjoyed it. But, jeez, gang, you haven't lived until you've heard Cary Grant, Helen Mack and Edward Everett Horton attempt to belt out the songs! Absolutely incredible. Some of the worst examples of singing in a film from a major studio.You will enjoy it too....if you sit back and not expect a "Citizen Kane"-quality screenplay!