The Social Lion (1930)

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Directed by

A. Edward Sutherland

Starring (View all)

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

Henry Roquemore
Smith

Written by

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(adaptation)

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Description: Marco Perkins (Jack Oakie) 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 (Mary Brian), and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton (Olive Borden), who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in sh ... (more)

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