The Social Lion (1930)
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
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Jack Oakie
as Marco Perkins
as Marco Perkins
Mary Brian
as Cynthia Brown
as Cynthia Brown
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
as Chick Hathaway
as Chick Hathaway
Olive Borden
as Gloria Staunton
as Gloria Staunton
Charles Sellon
as Jim Perkins
as Jim Perkins
Cyril Ring
as Ralph Williams
as Ralph Williams
E.H. Calvert
as Henderson
as Henderson
James Gibson
as Howard
as Howard
Henry Roquemore
as Smith
as Smith
William Bechtel
as Schultz
as Schultz
Richard Cummings
as McGinnis
as McGinnis
Jack Byron
as 'Knockout' Johnson
as 'Knockout' Johnson
Frank Biedka
as Minor Role
as Minor Role
Virginia Bruce
as Society Girl
as Society Girl
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A. Edward Sutherland
Director
Director
Octavus Roy Cohen
Story
Story
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay
Screenplay
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