The Social Lion
“THE BEST LAUGH OF THE SEASON Get an Eye and Earful of the Oakie Chin and Grin”
1930•1h 12m•7.5•Released
Comedy
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.
Director
A. Edward Sutherland
Writer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Languages
English
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Jack Oakie
Marco Perkins
Mary Brian
Cynthia Brown
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Chick Hathaway
Olive Borden
Gloria Staunton
Charles Sellon
Jim Perkins
Cyril Ring
Ralph Williams
E.H. Calvert
Henderson
James Gibson
Howard
Henry Roquemore
Smith
William Bechtel
Schultz
Richard Cummings
McGinnis
Jack Byron
'Knockout' Johnson
Frank Biedka
Minor Role
Virginia Bruce
Society Girl
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