Joan Standing
Oyuncu · 1903 – 1979 · Worcestershire, England, UK
Joan Standing (21 June 1903 – 3 February 1979) was an English actress best known for playing Nurse Briggs in the 1931 horror film Dracula. She appeared in more than 60 films from 1919 to 1940.
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Film7.2KorkuJohn Harker, gizemli ve kolay kolay ele geçmeyen Kont Drakula'yla bir emlâk anlaşması yapmak için Transilvanya'ya gönderilir. Ama ev sahibi bir vampir, insanların kanıyla beslenen bir hortlaktır ve taşınma fikri ona pek de cazip gelmemektedir. Yüzlerce yıllık cehennemi, hayaletlere özgü bir varoluşun ardından, tek istediği huzura ermektir. Yine de, John'ın genç eşi Mina'nın fotoğrafını görüp heyecanlanınca, gemiyle batıya doğru yolculuğa çıkar.
Film7.3DramSuçWhen housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.
Greed
1924 · 207 votes
Film6.6DramSavaşOxford'da okuyan Monte ve Roy kardeşler, Birinci Dünya Savaşı başladığında orduya katılırlar ve hayatları tamamen değişir.
Film7.0KomediDramTells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbour May Fielding. May's friend Dot weds John Peerybingle; they find a lucky cricket in their cottage. A mortgage and house on fire figure in the story.
Cricket on the Hearth
1923 · 1 votes
Film7.0DramRomantikMarion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
Possessed
1931 · 42 votes
Film6.0KomediDramTycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Broadway Bill
1934 · 22 votes
Film6.9DramSuç1930'lardaki Buhranda, Thomas Dickson'ın bankasının Yönetim Kurulu onun New York Trust ile birleşmesini ve istifa etmesini ister; Reddeder. Bir gece bankasının 100.000 doları çalınır. Şüpheli, Dickson'ın işe aldığı ve Baş Veznedar olarak atadığı eski mahkum Matt Brown'dur. Dickson'a çok sadık olan Brown, o gece nerede olduğunu söylemeyi reddeder. Aslında mazereti için iki tanığı var: Bayan Dickson ve iş arkadaşı Cyril Cluett, ancak Brown, Dickson'ı Bayan Dickson'ın Cluett'la romantik bir akşam geçirdiğini öğrenmekten koruyor. 50.000 dolarlık kumar borcu olan Cluett aslında soygunun sorumlusudur, ancak suçu Brown'un üstlenmesine izin verir. Brown'ın Bay Dickson'a olan bağlılığı karşılığını mı alacak yoksa onu hapse geri mi gönderecek?
Film5.0DramMüzikRomantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.
A Lady's Morals
1930 · 6 votes
Film9.0DramIn this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Straight from the Heart
1935 · 1 votes
Film9.0DramA comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
The Age for Love
1931 · 1 votes
Film8.0DramPleasure Mad
1923 · 1 votes
Film9.0KomediLemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
Young as You Feel
1931 · 1 votes
Film5.0KomediIn a prologue, as a woman pages through a book, male figures, including a musketeer, a cowboy, a swordsman and a military officer, appear and bow. In the main story, the visit of Prince Ferdinandi sends New York society ladies scurrying to purchase gowns for the upcoming ball. The woman seen earlier looking longingly at the book, model Marjorie Bowen, fights off the advances of Cadwallader Smith, who accompanies a patron. When handsome Sir Derwain Leeds, the prince's aide-de-camp, arrives to see his fiancée Yvette Fernau outfitted, Marjorie exchanges a shy smile with him.
Silk Hosiery
1920 · 2 votes
Film4.8DramDan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns that the Captain has contracted Leprosy and asks Dan to be the guardian of his South Sea island daughter Tamea. Dan soon learns that Tamea wants him and will do nothing without a kiss. But Tamea soon learns that she is different than Dan and Maisie and that makes her angry. Dan decides to go and live on the island with Tamea, but soon finds out that Paradise is not everything that he thought it was.
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1931 · 5 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikAn artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge fortune.
Home, James
1928 · 1 votes
Film9.0DramUnder the name of Jack Nelson, Don McLean goes to work in his father's factory. He meets a restaurant cashier, Jeanie; they are married and have a child. Stricken by amnesia as a result of an accident, Jack forgets his family and returns to his former life. Eventually his memory is restored, and he is reunited with his wife and child.
What Shall I Do?
1924 · 1 votes
Film6.6DramKomediAfter decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Emma
1932 · 15 votes
Film6.2SuçDramA former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
Private Detective 62
1933 · 26 votes
Film5.2DramRomantikAfter a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre
1934 · 12 votes
Film7.5KomediMüzikAided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Grand Ole Opry
1940 · 2 votes
Film7.0DramRobert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colby is arrested and at trial all testimony points to his guilt. But as the jury deliberates, the unfairly named “other woman” (Helen Lee Worthing) sets out to prove his innocence.
The Other Woman's Story
1925 · 2 votes
Film7.5DramA young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
Broken Lullaby
1932 · 47 votes
Film10.0KomediA virtuous lawyer falls for a beautiful but extravagant woman, leading him into financial trouble as he tries to keep up with her wasteful spending, ultimately testing their relationship and his principles.
For the Love o' Lil
1930 · 1 votes
Film5.7KomediDramA small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Goldie Gets Along
1933 · 3 votes