The Kiss Before the Mirror
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| Directed by | James Whale |
| Screenplay by | William Anthony McGuire |
| Based on | The Kiss Before the Mirror by Ladislas Fodor |
| Produced by | Carl Laemmle, Jr. |
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| Cinematography | Karl Freund |
| Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
| Music by | W. Franke Harling |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Kiss Before the Mirror is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery thriller film directed by James Whale and starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, and Gloria Stuart. An adaptation of the Ladislas Fodor stage play of the same name, the film focuses on the torrid mystery of a young woman's murder in Vienna.
Released by Universal Pictures in the spring of 1933, The Kiss Before the Mirror was made after Whale had completed The Old Dark House (1932), during a period in which he was waiting for the screenplay of his followup feature, The Invisible Man (1933), to be finalized.
Whale remade the film in 1938 as Wives Under Suspicion.