Louise Brooks with Adolphe Menjou
Paramount Studios Film Still from A SOCIAL CELEBRITY
1926 · New York City, New York

Playing with Adolphe Menjou under the direction of Malcolm St. Clair, understated, natural Brooksie was out of her dramatic element. She recalled in later years: "Mal came from the mugging school of Sennett, and he did everything by making faces, and he would mug out a scene for me and then send me into the scene, and I would be so embarrassed. I tried my best to please him and yet not make all those mugging faces that date so terribly, like Adolphe Menjou."