Shirley Temple reprises screen character Corliss Archer from the film Kiss and Tell, in this her last film. The film co-stars David Niven a man in the middle of his third divorce. Corliss's father Harry Archer ( Tom Tully ) happens to be the lawyer of Niven's third wife. To make her boyfriend Dexter ( Darryl Hickman ) jealous, Corliss invents a romance with the suave Kenneth Marquis ( David Niven ) and writes it in her diary. The diary becomes known to Corliss's parents and Corliss fakes amnesia, while the confronted Marquis proclaims he will marry Corliss, just to spite her father, his ex-wife's lawyer. Is your head spinning, even Shirley Temple was the first to admit " the result was not terribly good. " Niven went further and called it " a disastrous pot-boiler." Shirley is pretty as always and a capable actress, she does her best with this flimsy storyline. This is a film that will either satisfy or disappoint, unfortunately a sad ending to the film career of the ever talented Shirley Temple.
Review of A Kiss for Corliss
