A Social Celebrity

A Social Celebrity

70 mins | Comedy | March 29, 1926

Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads 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 styling 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.

A Social Celebrity

70 mins | Comedy | March 29, 1926

A Social Celebrity
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads 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 styling 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.
Producers Paramount
Original title A Social Celebrity
Directors Malcolm St. Clair
Writers Pierre Collings, Monte M. Katterjohn

Cast

Adolphe Menjou

as Max Haber

Louise Brooks

as Kitty Laverne

Eleanor Lawson

as April King (as Elsie Lawson)

Roger Davis

as Tenny

Hugh Huntley

as Forrest Abbott

Chester Conklin

as Johann Haber

Freeman Wood

as Gifford Jones

Josephine Drake

as Mrs. Jackson-Greer

Ida Waterman

as Mrs. Winifred King