Love and Kisses

About the show

Love and Kisses is a play by Anita Rowe Block. Set in Michigan, the work is a comedy based around the topic of teenage marriage. It premiered in Boston in November 1963 at the Wilbur Theatre. It transferred to the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in early December 1963 before arriving at Broadway's Music Box Theatre where it opened on December 18, 1963. It ran for just thirteen performances; closing on December 28, 1963. Produced and directed by Dore Schary, the cast included Susan Browning as Elizabeth Pringle, Larry Parks as Jeff Pringle, Bert Convy as Freddy Winters, Michael Currie as T.J. Jones, Mary Fickett as Carol Pringle, Alberta Grant as Rosemary Cotts, Katharine Raht as Nanny, and Dennis Cooney as Buzzy Pringle. Helene Pons designed the costumes. The Boston Globe critic Kevin Kelly found the work to be "pleasant, funny but also mindless". the Glendale Centre Theatre (1990) in Los Angeles, and the Hale Centre Theatre (1995) in Utah. It was adapted into the 1965 film of the same name starring Ricky Nelson.