Louise Brooks
Paramount Studios Film Still from A SOCIAL CELEBRITY
December 1925-January 1926 · New York City, New York

As A SOCIAL CELEBRITY was going into production, Louise Brooks was set to play a minor role as a barber shop's manicurist. At an early stage in shooting, star Greta Nissen pulled out of the film, the small manicurist's role became a lead, and Brooks was given second-billing to star Adolphe Menjou. It was just one of many serendipitous twists of fate in her early career that propelled Brooks's rising star upward—an ascension that would never quite reach its zenith in the United States.