Society Secrets

Society Secrets is a 1921 American silent satire film, directed by Leo McCarey.

McCarey didn't make a further feature film for eight years as he concentrated on writing and directing shorts.

Biographers Gary Hooper and Leland Poague report that “nothing beyond the production credits has survived” with respect to this lost film.

[5] Working in “menial” jobs at Universal, he was assigned to work serve as an assistant to director Tod Browning, learning “the techniques of film directing and scenario construction.”[6][7] After completing his apprenticeship on pictures including The Virgin of Stamboul (1920) and Outside the Law (1921), McCarey was permitted to direct his first film: Society Secrets.

[8] Biographers Gary Hooper and Leland Poague write: It may be the case that the film was so bad (as McCarey admits) that it was never put into general release; if it was, it wasn’t considered worthy enough to generate any response in The New York Times...[9] This article about a silent comedy film from the 1920s is a stub.