Passions and longings
To celebrate Valentine's Day, a collection of images from memorable romantic films.
Pictured: May Irwin and John C. Rice, who were appearing in a stage play "The Widow Jones," performed their onstage kiss for Thomas Edison's camera in 1896. The resulting 18 seconds, "The Kiss," was the first scandalous screen osculation.
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan
Three's A Crowd
The uninhibited Lulu (Louise Brooks, center) is the object of obsession for many characters, male and female, in G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box."
Hot Stuff
A nightclub dancer (Barbara Stanwyck) is asked by a grammarian (Gary Cooper) to help in his research of slang, which soon gives way to other areas of study, in the screwball comedy "Ball of Fire."
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
An irresistible object meets an immovable force in "Gone With the Wind," an epic of the Old South. Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara was a character who lived, breathed and schemed with a fire quenched only by Clark Gable's irascible Rhett Butler.
Bad Girl
The passion between married diner owner Lana Turner and bum John Garfield could only lead to no good, in the 1943 film version of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
We'll Always Have Paris
Humphrey Bogart had the world-weariness and self-confidence that made him the perfect romantic hero. Saying farewell to Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca" was the hardest thing he ever had to do, and the hardest thing we ever had to watch.
Two Ships Passing In The Night
In David Lean's "Brief Encounter," Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are marrieds who find themselves drawn to one another, but for whom an affair seems out of the question.
Undercover
World War II intrigue involving Nazis in South America leads to a beautiful intelligence conscript (Ingrid Bergman) and her handler (Cary Grant) finding themselves in the clinch in Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious."
Put The Blame On Mame
In the film noir "Gilda," Rita Hayworth was the femme more than one man found fatale.
On The Beach
An Oscar-winning tale of hard-living, hard-loving soldiers, "From Here to Eternity" contained one of the most memorable cinema kisses: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr locking lips on the beach in Hawaii, tide be damned.
Tackle
What happens when a vivacious showgirl is engaged to a nerd? Marilyn Monroe puts the moves on Tommy Noonan in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
Not What She Seems
In pursuit of a dream? James Stewart tries to recreate the vision of a lost love in the person of Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful tale of obsession, "Vertigo."
A New Wave
The tragic relationship between a petty criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg) in Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" was like a breath of fresh air.
Back Up Where They Belong
In "An Officer and a Gentleman," Richard Gere must prove himself not only to a factory worker (Debra Winger), but to the U.S. Navy's Aviation Officer Candidate School. Neither task is easy.
Shall We Dance?
Among Carlos Saura's dance films, his eye-filling flamenco tribute to Bizet's "Carmen" is the most hypnotic. Great music, passionate duets, jealousy, revenge, tragedy - what more could you want in a romance?
Serenade
Writer/director Cameron Crowe scored with "Say Anything," a charmer about an aspiring kickboxer (John Cusack) trying to win the heart of a hair maiden (Ione Skye). The film avoids the usual teen romance slapstick in favor of honesty, wit and gallantry.
Not On The Menu
Meg Ryan's restaurant scene, in which she demonstrates truth in advertising to Billy Crystal, is a classic moment in Rob Reiner's witty romantic comedy, "When Harry Met Sally."
Duo
In "Henry & June," about writer Henry Miller and his relationships with wife June (Uma Thurman) and diarist Anais Nin, June's bohemian lifestyle goes beyond sharing her husband with Nin, to manipulating a marionette puppet meant to humiliate Henry.
Playing Heartstrings
Holly Hunter's suitors, in Jane Campion's ravishing film "The Piano," must compete not only against each other for her favor, but against the pianist's own instrument, which becomes the voice for the mute woman's longings, desires and pride.
Class Lines
First class passenger Kate Winslet scoffs at the posh crowd, and dances with steerage passenger Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic."
Never Forget
A technology to allow the broken-hearted to forget their lost loves has some eerie side effects in the romantic fantasy "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," in which Jim Carrey's memories of Kate Winslet unravel along with much of his world.
Home On The Range
The bond between two cowboys (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) becomes both emotional and sexual in the moving drama, "Brokeback Mountain."
Knight In Armour
In a brief, fantasized reverie that takes place in an elevator while being pursued by thugs, a getaway driver (Ryan Gosling) acts on his unspoken passion for the neighbor (Carey Mulligan) he has devoted himself to saving, in "Drive."