Date of birth: 1903-06-21
Place of birth: Worcestershire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

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.

1931-02-12
British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is i

1924-12-04
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

1930-11-19
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not onl

1926-04-10
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs w

1924-09-15
Milt Kimberlin is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and

1923-11-05

1926-02-14
In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are

1925-06-08
After a stormy six year marriage, Barnaby Powers divorces his wife Richmiel. She returns home, takin

1934-11-30
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daugh

1932-01-19
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, lik

1930-10-09
Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Ali

1934-08-15
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi

1930-02-08
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with th

1931-10-17
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and

1928-07-15
Two pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to b

1924-02-10
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.

1922-10-30
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv

1920-10-31
Pierre Landis is insanely jealous of his beautiful young wife Joan, and his jealousy makes him take

1930-11-15
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, en

1932-08-15
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi

1932-01-02
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with rese

1940-09-15
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke

1930-11-08
Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.

1931-05-16
Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to a

1940-11-09
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry tw

1927-11-27
A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpecte

1929-07-01

1940-06-25
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crook

1925-01-04
Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in searc

1924-03-09
The adventures of a young shopgirl who learns that having money is not the key to happiness.

1931-08-06
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that ne

1928-01-22
The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the L

1928-10-03
An artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge

1933-01-27
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.

1929-04-01
Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after

1932-03-17
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.

1926-01-17
Leontine Sturdee and her dancing partner Basil Owen tour Hungry. They meet Anton Ragatzy, a mystic f

1930-08-29
Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston.

1926-09-18
A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, wh

1933-06-10
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported

1919-12-07
Letty Shell, a clerk in a London brokerage office, is discouraged by her lack of fine clothes and so

1925-09-05
Stranded on a desert isle, Donald and Cecilie become man and wife in the eyes of God. Donald is atta

1925-11-15
Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colb

1935-03-22
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help

1923-01-01
The son of a retired timber baron meets and falls in love with a Michigan woman who refuses to sell

1923-08-11
Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbor May Fiel

1925-12-06
Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal

1927-04-09
Touring America as Harrington Smith, the Duke of Westborough visits the Brown Iron Works at Ivor Cit

1926-09-01
Richard Lane isolates himself in the African interior for 5 years after his sweetheart, Natalie, mar