The Social Lion
movie

THE BEST LAUGH OF THE SEASON Get an Eye and Earful of the Oakie Chin and Grin
Released June 21, 1930
Genres:
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.
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
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James Gibson
as
Howard
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Henry Roquemore
as
Smith
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William Bechtel
as
Schultz
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Richard Cummings
as
McGinnis
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Jack Byron
as
'Knockout' Johnson

