The Kiss Before the Mirror is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film adapted from the 1932 play by Ladislas Fodor, directed by James Whale and starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, and Gloria Stuart.

Attorney Paul Held is defending his friend, Walter Bernsdorf, who has been charged with the murder of his wife Lucy in Vienna.

After a court hearing, Paul returns home to his wife, Maria, and watches her as she applies make-up at her vanity.

He makes an impassioned closing statement, which he concludes by revealing a gun and pointing it at Maria in the audience.

The film was remade by Whale five years later as Wives Under Suspicion, starring Warren William and Gail Patrick.