List of the best Wyndham Standing movies: The Unchastened Woman(1925), Design for Living(1933), Imitation of Life(1934), A Study in Scarlet(1933), Sadie McKee(1934), Beloved Enemy(1936), The Secret Heart(1946), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami(1947), The Son of Monte Cristo(1940) ... ...
Romance
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Max's Butler
Fredric March Gary Cooper Miriam Hopkins Edward Everett Horton Franklin Pangborn Isabel Jewell Wyndham Standing Harry Dunkinson Helena Phillips Evans James Donlan Vernon Steele
artist playwright american boss husband love interest cheeky madcap playful paris apartment london new york city office roommates jealousy romantic dilemma love triangle sex competition
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Drama
USA
1934
106 Minutes
Jarvis
Claudette Colbert Warren William Louise Beavers Rochelle Hudson Ned Sparks Alan Hale Henry Armetta Wyndham Standing
widow daughter housekeeper friend emotional touching atlantic city, n.j. family friendship abandonment race relations business mother/daughter relationship growing up transformation 1930s
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Reginald Owen Warburton Gamble Anna May Wong June Clyde Alan Dinehart John Warburton J.M. Kerrigan Alan Mowbray Doris Lloyd Billy Bevan Leila Bennett
sherlock holmes doctor watson lawyer widow pretty woman intricate tense london apartment murder greed investigation inheritance aristocracy secret society mystery discovery 19th century
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
95 Minutes
Joan Crawford Gene Raymond Franchot Tone Esther Ralston Edward Arnold Earl Oxford Jean Dixon Leo G. Carroll Akim Tamiroff Zelda Sears Helen Ware
A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.
Drama
1936
90 Minutes
Merle Oberon Brian Aherne David Niven Karen Morley Theodore von Eltz Jerome Cowan John Burton Leland Hodgson David Torrence Henry Stephenson Donald Crisp
lord daughter rebel rival mother brash fiery patriotic dublin police station house england street irish life politics father/daughter relationship peace treaty assassination plot quest rivalry
British soldiers follow an aristocrat (Merle Oberon) to her lover, a rebel leader (Brian Aherne) in 1921 Dublin.
Drama
1946
97 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Walter Pidgeon June Allyson Robert Sterling Marshall Thompson Elizabeth Patterson Richard Derr Patricia Medina Eily Malyon Nicholas Joy Anna Q. Nilsson
pianist doctor father daughter mother eerie emotional suspenseful melodramatic united states family home ocean liner love marriage jealousy mental illness affair discovery forbidden love mystery
A teenager's (June Allyson) despondency over her father's suicide causes concern for her brother and stepmother (Claudette Colbert). Narrated by Hume Cronyn.
Drama
USA
1947
112 Minutes
George Sanders Angela Lansbury Ann Dvorak Frances Dee John Carradine Susan Douglas Rubes Hugo Haas Marie Wilson Albert Basserman Warren William Katherine Emery
womanizer widow daughter nobleman journalist wife crafty melodramatic hedonistic party france house newsroom social climbing dueling marriage frame-ups exploitation divorce wretched excess
Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on... See full summary »
Adventure
1940
102 Minutes
Louis Hayward Joan Bennett George Sanders Florence Bates Lionel Royce Montagu Love Ian Wolfe Clayton Moore Ralph Byrd Georges Renavent Michael Visaroff
queen general son king guard brash crafty gutsy fictional country royal court royal palace europe royalty power struggle identity schemes adventure rivalry 1860s
A masked swordsman (Louis Hayward) poses as a French banker to save a grand duchess (Joan Bennett) from a dictator (George Sanders).