| A Social Celebrity | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Malcolm St. Clair |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
| Written by | Monte M. Katterjohn Pierre Collings |
| Starring | Adolphe Menjou Louise Brooks Elsie Lawson Roger Davis Hugh Huntley |
| Cinematography | Lee Garmes |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 29, 1926 |
| Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
A Social Celebrity (1926) is a silent comedy drama starring Louise Brooks as a small town manicurist who goes to New York with her boyfriend (Adolphe Menjou), a barber who poses as a French count. The film is now considered a lost film.[1]
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Max Haber (Menjou), a small town barber, is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne (Brooks), the manicurist, who loves him but aspires to be a dancer and leaves for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things.
Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max fashioning the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl. At the theater where Kitty is appearing Max is the best-dressed man in April's party, but later at a nightclub Kitty exposes him, and he is deserted by his society friends. Disillusioned, Max returns home at the request of his father. Kitty follows, realizing that he needs her.