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The Social Lion

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75%(2)IMDbComedy

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.

Directed byA. Edward Sutherland

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 12m
Language
EN
Released
June 21, 1930
Studios
Paramount Pictures

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Jack Oakie

Jack Oakie

Marco Perkins

Mary Brian

Mary Brian

Cynthia Brown

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Chick Hathaway

Olive Borden

Olive Borden

Gloria Staunton

Charles Sellon

Charles Sellon

Jim Perkins

Cyril Ring

Cyril Ring

Ralph Williams

E.H. Calvert

E.H. Calvert

Henderson

James Gibson

Howard

Henry Roquemore

Smith

William Bechtel

Schultz

Creative team
Directed by
A. Edward Sutherland
A. Edward Sutherland
Written by
Octavus Roy Cohen
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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