A Social Celebrity is a 1926 American silent comedy drama film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starred Louise Brooks as a small town manicurist who goes to New York City with her boyfriend (Adolphe Menjou), a barber who poses as a French count.

[1] [2] Max Haber (Menjou), a small town barber, is the pride of his father, Johann (Chester Conklin), 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 City, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things.

[4] New York Times film critic Mordaunt Hall considered the picture “adroitly directed and skilfully acted,” as well as a “light but pleasing” adaption of the original story by Monte M. Katterjohn.

Hall reserves special praise for director St Clair’s “remarkable ability in portraying the thoughts of his characters in a distinctly entertaining fashion” and augmenting the fine performances by Menjou and Brooks.