Greta Garbo
Arden Stuart Hewlett
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The Single Standard is a 1929 American synchronized sound romantic drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by veteran John S. Robertson and starring Greta Garbo, Nils Asther and Johnny Mack Brown.
THE SINGLE STANDARD (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1929), directed by John S. Robertson, stars the legendary Greta Garbo in another one of many love triangle melodramas most associated with her during her reign on the silver screen.
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- Drama, Romance
- John S. Robertson
- 1929-07-29
Fleeing rain and wolves on the San Francisco streets, heroine Arden (Greta Garbo) comes upon a modern art exhibit and it's improbable prize-fighter turned-painter honoree "Packy," (Garbo's fellow Swede Nils Asther), in The Single Standard, 1929, from an Adela Rogers St. Johns novel.
- John S. Robertson
- Greta Garbo
Arden Stuart (Greta Garbo) is a feminist ahead of her time, believing that a "single standard" should be applied to both sexes. Instead of marrying and settling down, she juggles numerous...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama
- John S. Robertson
After refusing Tommy Hewlett's marriage proposal, she has her driver drive her to a lonely place, where they make love and return to the party, where she witnesses her chauffeur commit suicide after being fired by her brother.
This Garbo film, based on a novel by pioneering female journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, raises the right questions and is feminist insofar as it’s sympathetic to women who want to explore their sexuality as freely as men, but it settles for melodrama instead of realism.
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