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Director
  
A. Edward Sutherland

Music director
  
Howard Jackson

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Romance, Sport

Production
  
Paramount Pictures

Country
  
United States

The Social Lion movie poster

Release date
  
June 21, 1930 (1930-06-21)

Writer
  
Octavus Roy Cohen (story), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (adaptation), Agnes Brand Leahy (scenario)

Genres
  
Comedy, Romance Film, Sports

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)

Related A. Edward Sutherland movies
  
Sky Devils (1932), The Boys from Syracuse (1940), The Saturday Night Kid (1929), The Flying Deuces (1939), Behind the Front (1926)

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.

Cast

  • 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 Henry Cummings as McGinnis
  • References

    The Social Lion Wikipedia
    The Social Lion IMDb The Social Lion themoviedb.org