Social Briars is a 1918 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Henry King and starring Mary Miles Minter.

[2] As described in various film magazine reviews,[3][4][5][6] Iris Lee (Minter) is an orphan girl who lives in a little country town with Martha Kane (Andrews).

She misses the train, but is offered a ride from a passing stranger, Jack Andrews (Forrest), a wealthy young city man.

When she arrives in the city, she struggles to find a way to earn a living, but one day she is walking past a church and, upon hearing the choir, decides to enter and join in.

When Helen is dropped from the opera for refusing the advances of her manager Franklin (Whitson), Iris is promoted to the prima donna role.