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John M. Stahl is a Actor, Director, Story and Producer American born on 21 january 1886 at New York City (USA)

John M. Stahl

John M. Stahl
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Birth name John Malcolm Stahl
Nationality USA
Birth 21 january 1886 at New York City (USA)
Death 12 january 1950 (at 63 years) at Hollywood (USA)

John M. Stahl est un réalisateur américain, né le 21 janvier 1886 à New York et mort le 12 janvier 1950 à Hollywood, d'une crise cardiaque. Il est surtout connu pour ses mélodrames, dont plusieurs ont été refaits par d'autres réalisateurs (Douglas Sirk, Robert Stevenson).

Best films

Forever Amber (1947)
(Director)
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
(Director)
Leave Her to Heaven (1946)
(Director)

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Karl Freund
Karl Freund
(5 films)
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Thomas Little
(9 films)
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Vera West
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Filmography of John M. Stahl (37 films)

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Actor

Loch Ness
Loch Ness (1996)
, 1h40
Directed by John Henderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, James Frain, David Bowie, Harris Yulin
Rating55% 2.7521152.7521152.7521152.7521152.752115
Opening on a pub near Loch Ness, a scientist named Dr. Abernathy steps out for some air. Standing on the shore of the loch, he sees something rise from the water. Astonished, he takes a single photograph before slipping and falling on the rocks, killing him.

Director

Father Was a Fullback, 1h24
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, American football films, Children's films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Rudy Vallée, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, Betty Lynn, Thelma Ritter
Rating63% 3.196333.196333.196333.196333.19633
State College football coach George Cooper (Fred MacMurray) has more than enough problems on the job without his teenage daughter Connie (Betty Lynn) complicating his life at home.
Oh, You Beautiful Doll, 1h33
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mark Stevens, June Haver, Edward Clark, John Davidson, S.Z. Sakall, James Griffith
Rating59% 2.9546052.9546052.9546052.9546052.954605
The film is a fictionalized biography of Fred Fisher, a German-born American writer of Tin Pan Alley songs. Tin Pan Alley promoter (Mark Stevens) turns serious composer Fred Breitenbach (S.Z. Sakall) into songwriter Fred Fisher. Fred Fisher is his assumed name in real life and Breitenbach is his birth surname. In the film, many Fisher songs were given a symphonic arrangement that was performed at Aeolian Hall. Among the Fisher songs heard were:
The Walls of Jericho, 1h46
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter, Kirk Douglas, Ann Dvorak, Marjorie Rambeau
Rating68% 3.434693.434693.434693.434693.43469
County attorney Dave Connors is stuck in an unhappy marriage to his wife, Belle. He invites his friends, newly-married Tucker and Algeria Wedge, to come and visit.
Forever Amber, 2h18
Directed by Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Richard Haydn, Glenn Langan
Rating64% 3.2444353.2444353.2444353.2444353.244435
The film begins in 1644 during the English Civil War, as we see a group of Roundheads pursuing a Cavalier's carriage. The carriage drives into the country where its passengers abandon a baby, named Amber, on the doorstep of a farming cottage. The roundheads soon catch up with the carriage and kill all the passengers while the farmers discover and decide to adopt Amber.
The Foxes of Harrow, 1h57
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen, Vanessa Brown, Patricia Medina
Rating64% 3.242693.242693.242693.242693.24269
In the pre-Civil War New Orleans, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison) buys his way into society – something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.
Leave Her to Heaven, 1h50
Directed by Otto Brower, John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Ray Collins
Rating75% 3.7975853.7975853.7975853.7975853.797585
Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) returns to his remote island home, called Back of the Moon, after two years in prison. His friend and attorney, (Ray Collins), narrates how Richard meets beautiful socialite Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) on a train. She falls in love with him based mainly on his close resemblance to her recently deceased father, to whom she was obsessively attached.
The Eve of St. Mark, 1h36
Directed by John M. Stahl, Maxwell Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O'Shea, Vincent Price, Ray Collins, Harry Morgan
Rating59% 2.9559152.9559152.9559152.9559152.955915
Quizz West est appelé par la conscription américaine en préparation de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il discute de l'avenir avec sa copine Janet.
The Keys of the Kingdom, 2h17
Directed by Otto Brower, John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Edmund Gwenn, Benson Fong, Rose Stradner
Rating71% 3.595563.595563.595563.595563.59556
Father Francis Chisholm (Gregory Peck) is visited in his old age by Monsignor Sleeth (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) at his parish in Tweedside. The Monsignor informs Father Francis that the Bishop thinks it would be better if he retires, as Father Francis' somewhat unorthodox recent teachings have become a distraction. The Monsignor retires to his room in the rectory, and finds Father Francis' diary that recounts his story from 1878. As the Monsignor begins to read the diary, a flashback begins.
Immortal Sergeant, 1h31
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Children's films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Melville Cooper
Rating65% 3.294913.294913.294913.294913.29491
In North Africa, experienced Sergeant Kelly (Thomas Mitchell) leads out a British patrol, accompanied by Corporal Colin Spence (Henry Fonda), an unassertive Canadian. When they are attacked by Italian airplanes, they manage to shoot one down, but it crashes on one of their vehicles, killing eight men. Later, Kelly leads the six survivors on an attack of an Italian armored car, but is seriously wounded. He orders Spence to leave him behind; when Spence refuses to obey, he shoots himself.
Holy Matrimony, 1h27
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor, Alan Mowbray, Whit Bissell
Rating71% 3.588353.588353.588353.588353.58835
Priam Farll (Monty Woolley) is a famous English painter and recluse who has been living in various isolated places around the world with only his valet of 25 years, Henry Leek (Eric Blore), for company. In 1905, Farll reluctantly travels to London to be knighted. Upon their arrival, however, Leek becomes very ill. Farll summons Dr. Caswell (Melville Cooper), but Leek succumbs to double pneumonia. The doctor mistakenly assumes it is Farll who has died, and the publicity-hating artist is only too glad to assume Leek's identity.
When Tomorrow Comes, 1h30
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Onslow Stevens, Nydia Westman, Nella Walker
Rating66% 3.338083.338083.338083.338083.33808
Un célèbre pianiste français en tournée s'arrête dans un bar et tombe amoureux d'une serveuse.
Letter of Introduction, 1h44
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Ann Sheridan, Eve Arden
Rating60% 3.0487953.0487953.0487953.0487953.048795
An aging actor, John Mannering, is surprised when his estranged daughter, Kay Martin, shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He is persuaded to perform on Broadway for the first time in twelve years in a play with her. He is very nervous and turns to alcohol to overcome his problems. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Parnell
Parnell (1937)
, 1h58
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Actors Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Billie Burke
Rating54% 2.707742.707742.707742.707742.70774
Un épisode de la vie de Charles Stewart Parnell, le roi sans couronne, depuis sa lutte, dès 1880, pour soustraire l'Irlande au joug anglais, jusqu'à sa mort. Le scénario met l'accent sur sa relation avec Katie O'Shea, femme mariée, qui va provoquer un scandale.
Magnificent Obsession, 1h52
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Sara Haden, Ralph Morgan, Henry Armetta
Rating67% 3.397433.397433.397433.397433.39743
The life of spoiled Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor) is saved through the use of a hospital's only pulmotor, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon and generous philanthropist. Merrick falls in love with Hudson's widow, Helen (Irene Dunne), though she holds him responsible for her husband's demise. One day, he insists on driving her home and makes a pass at her. She gets out and is struck by another car, losing her sight. Merrick confronts a friend of Helen's husband, wanting to know why a beautiful young woman would marry a middle-aged man. The doctor's friend tells him that her husband had a philosophy—to help people, but never let it be known that you are the one helping them. Only then, he believed, could there be true reward in life.