The Social Lion

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The Social Lion (1930)

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland

“THE BEST LAUGH OF THE SEASON Get an Eye and Earful of the Oakie Chin and Grin”

Comedy · 1h 12m

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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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
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James Gibson Howard Henry Roquemore Smith
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William Bechtel Schultz
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Richard Cummings McGinnis
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Jack Byron 'Knockout' Johnson

Crew

Director
A. Edward Sutherland
Screenplay
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Details

Release date
1930-06-21
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Comedy
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Paramount Pictures