The Social Lion
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Director A. Edward Sutherland Duration Language English | 5/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Romance, Sport Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 21, 1930 (1930-06-21) Genres Comedy, Romance Film, Sports Cast (Marco Perkins), (Cynthia Brown), Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher (Chick Hathaway), (Gloria Staunton), (Jim Perkins), (Ralph Williams)Related A. Edward Sutherland movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Social Lion is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and written by Octavus Roy Cohen, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Agnes Brand Leahy. The film stars Jack Oakie, Mary Brian, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Olive Borden, Charles Sellon, Cyril Ring and E. H. Calvert. The film was released on June 21, 1930, by Paramount Pictures.
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Plot
Marco Perkins (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 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 moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown (Brian), and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton (Borden), 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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