The Social Lion (1930)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Release: 1930-06-21
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Writers: Octavus Roy Cohen , Joseph L. Mankiewicz , Agnes Brand Leahy
Language: English
Stars: Jack Oakie , Mary Brian , Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher , Olive Borden , Charles Sellon , Cyril Ring , E.H. Calvert , James Gibson , Henry Roquemore , William Bechtel
Runtime: 72 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Social Lion , León de sociedad (Spain) , Leão da Festa (Brazil) , 拳の王者 (Japan) , The Social Lion (United States of America) , Il leone sociale (Italy)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0021396