John M. Stahl

John M. Stahl was born on Jan 21, 1886 in Azerbaijan. John M. Stahl's big-screen debut came with Sowing the Wind directed by John M. Stahl in 1921. John M. Stahl is known for Leave Her to Heaven directed by John M. Stahl, Gene Tierney stars as Ellen Berent Harland and Cornel Wilde as Richard Harland. John M. Stahl has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award John M. Stahl achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie John M. Stahl plays is The Walls of Jericho which will be released on Nov 22, 1948.

John Stahl was the final executive in charge of Tiffany Pictures (located on the Talisman lot, later owned by Monogram Pictures), once a big fish in the pond of "Poverty Row", which in those days also included Columbia Pictures. With a B-movie history dating back to the silent era and after making 70 talkies, Tiffany imploded in 1932 in the midst of the deepening Depression and ended its days grinding out the "Chimp Comedies" series of shorts, in which chimps "lip-synched"--by means of having them chew bubble gum--to dubbed actors' voices scripted to corny plots. These simian shorts were popular as filler in second-run movie houses until the freakish novelty wore thin. A sad end to a studio once notable for a roster of stars that included Rex Lease, Ken Maynard, Conway Tearle, Bob Steele and Mae Murray.Stahl moved over to MGM, producing and directing the notable flop La vie privée du tribun (1937), widely considered the studio's worst effort to date. Despite this, he would continue in the business as a producer and director of some note until his death in 1950.