The Social Lion
The Social Lion

The Social Lion (1930)

1930-06-21

(US) •

Comedy

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

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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.

Movie Cast

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Jack Oakie

Marco Perkins

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Mary Brian

Cynthia Brown

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Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Chick Hathaway

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Olive Borden

Gloria Staunton

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Charles Sellon

Jim Perkins

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Cyril Ring

Ralph Williams

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E.H. Calvert

Henderson

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James Gibson

Howard

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Henry Roquemore

Smith

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William Bechtel

Schultz

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Richard Cummings

McGinnis

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Jack Byron

'Knockout' Johnson

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Frank Biedka

Minor Role

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Virginia Bruce

Society Girl