Movielogr
The Social Lion (1930)
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
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.
Actors
Jack Oakie | Cyril Ring | Henry Roquemore | Richard Cummings | Virginia Bruce | Charles Sellon | Olive Borden | Mary Brian | William Bechtel | Jack Byron | Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher | James Gibson | E.H. Calvert | Frank Biedka