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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 film has no audible dialogue but featured a synchronized musical score and sound effects.
Joe Gola’s review published on Letterboxd: Yet another love triangle movie, of which there seemed to be an inexhaustible supply in the 1920s and early 1930s. It also features another common theme of the time period, that of women's freedom—or more specifically, whether women can/should have the same freedom that men have to engage in love ...
Reviews. Dec 31, 1928 11:00pm PT. The Single Standard. Although Greta Garbo, as Arden Stuart, is meant to throw off the cloak of conventionalism for free plunges, the actress is almost...
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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Luke Thorne’s review published on Letterboxd: In John S. Robertson’s silent film, a free-spirited debutante tries to prove that women can love as carelessly as men. Arden Stuart (Greta Garbo) is a feminist ahead of her time, believing that a "single standard" should be applied to both sexes.
Arden Stuart (Greta Garbo), a San Francisco debutante, meets Packy Cannon (Nils Asther), a sailor-fighter turned artist, in an art gallery. She falls in love with him and goes off with him on a yacht for a prolonged affair.
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.
