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The Social Lion

6.0 72 mins Comedy   1930
Paramount Pictures  
Director(s): A. Edward Sutherland

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.

Casts of The Social Lion

Jack Oakie

as Marco Perkins

Mary Brian

as Cynthia Brown

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

as Chick Hathaway

Olive Borden

as Gloria Staunton

Charles Sellon

as Jim Perkins

Cyril Ring

as Ralph Williams

E.H. Calvert

as Henderson

James Gibson

as Howard

Henry Roquemore

as Smith

William Bechtel

as Schultz

Richard Cummings

as McGinnis

Jack Byron

as 'Knockout' Johnson

Frank Biedka

as Minor Role

Virginia Bruce

as Society Girl

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