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The Social Lion (1930)

The Social Lion (1930)

Comedy

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

Release Date: 1930, June 21
Directors: A. Edward Sutherland
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Jack Oakie, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Virginia Bruce, Mary Brian, Richard Cummings, Jack Byron, James Gibson, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, E.H. Calvert, Charles Sellon, Olive Borden

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

mechanic country club polo