Joan Standing
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: June 21, 1903
Place of Birth: Worcestershire, England, UK
Known For
Broken Lullaby
A 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.
Greed
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Dracula
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.
Grand Ole Opry
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
American Madness
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Street of Chance
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.
Hell's Angels
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
Emma
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Broadway Bill
Tycoon 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...
Filmography
as Kitty Hoops
as Saloon Reader
as Woman (uncredited)
as Mother of Crippled Boy
as Brooks' Phone Operator (uncredited)
as Daisy
as Client with Free (Uncredited)
as The Mayor's Secretary
as Jim's Secretary (uncredited)
as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
as Eleanor
as Lemuel's Secretary
as Julia
as Maid
as Kilmer
as Roy's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
as Louise
as Mary the Maid (uncredited)
as Chambermaid
as Miss Abrams
as Miss Weller
as Iris Elliot
as Mabel
as Maudie
as Nellie Kelly
as Mary
as Harriet Porter
as Olga
as Alice McNeil
as Sharon's Secretary
as Pritchard
as Printer's Devil
as Tillie Crotty
as Cecilie's maid
as The Hired Girl
as Pringle
as Selina
as Hilda, the maid
as Lizzie
as Jenny
as Isabella
as Hulda
as Tillie Slowboy
as Ginger
as Charlotte
as Sophia Black
as Maude Upper
as Slavey