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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. [2] 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 ...
Greta Garbo invented Hot Girl Summer™ in 1929. We get a sampling of everything in The Single Standard--a boxing match at an art gallery, bohemian sailboating, high-society parties, and a classic love-triangle dilemma.
Synopsis 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...
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- Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, Johnny Mack Brown
- John S. Robertson
- Drama
Quiller’s review published on Letterboxd: Having watched John Gilbert’s last silent film a few days ago, it seemed fair to follow up with Greta Garbo’s second-to-last silent because those two frequent co-stars and sometime lovers are inextricably linked in Hollywood history.
SYNOPSIS. 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.
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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.
