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Louise Brooks and Adolphe Menjou.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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A Social Celebrity
Also known as Au suivant de ces messieurs in France : {A Society Celebrity}
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 6025 feet
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Adolphe Menjou [Max Haber], Louise Brooks [Kitty Laverne], Elsie Lawson [April King], Roger Davis [Tenny], Hugh Huntley [Forrest Abbott], Chester Conklin [Johann Haber], Freeman Wood [Gifford Jones], Josephine Drake [Mrs. Jackson-Greer], Ida Waterman [Mrs. Winifred King]
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Malcolm St. Clair Production; A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Pierre Collings, from the screen story “I’ll See You Tonight” by Monte M. Katterjohn. Cinematography by Lee Garmes. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 31 March 1926 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP22559]. Released 29 March 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Shooting began late in December 1925. When Greta Nissen left the film during production, Brooks’ role was rewritten to become the female lead.
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost : A print held by the George Eastman Museum was viewed by Brooks in 1957, and has since deteriorated. Another print held by the Cinémathèque française film archive, the last known surviving print, was lost in a vault fire.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Flappers - USA: Indiana - USA: New York: Long Island: Huntington - USA: New York: New York
Listing updated: 8 October 2014.
References: Paris-Brooks pp. 131-134, 146, 157, 177, 557 : Website-AFI.
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