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.
Length 72 minutes
Actors
Jack Oakie | Mary Brian | Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher | Olive Borden | Charles Sellon | Cyril Ring | E.H. Calvert | James Gibson | Henry Roquemore | William Bechtel | Richard Cummings | Jack Byron | Frank Biedka | Virginia Bruce