Watch A Social Celebrity (1926) Free Online

Release Date: 1926

Cast: Louise Brooks, Adolphe Menjou, Roger Davis

Categories: Movies, Silent film, Indie, Comedy-drama, Black-and-white, Comedy, Romantic drama

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. 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... MORE

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. 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. LESS