List of the best John M. Stahl movies: Leave Her to Heaven(1945), Memory Lane(1926), Imitation of Life(1934), Only Yesterday(1933), The Walls of Jericho(1948), Magnificent Obsession(1935), When Tomorrow Comes(1939), Forever Amber(1947), Letter of Introduction(1938), Parnell(1937), The Immortal Sergeant(1943), The Foxes of Harrow(1947) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1945
111 Minutes
Director
Gene Tierney Cornel Wilde Jeanne Crain Vincent Price Mary Philips Ray Collins Darryl Hickman Gene Lockhart Reed Hadley Chill Wills Paul Everton
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A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married. But her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both, and everyone else around them.
Comedy, Romance
USA
1926
78 Minutes
Director
Eleanor Boardman Conrad Nagel William Haines John Steppling Eugenie Forde Frankie Darro Dot Farley Joan Standing Kate Price
Mary, on the day of her wedding to Jimmie, finds she has not lost her affection for another sweetheart, Joe. A confrontation arises when Jimmie discovers that Joe has come along on their ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
106 Minutes
Director
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.
Romance
USA
1933
105 Minutes
Director
Margaret Sullavan John Boles Billie Burke Edna May Oliver Benita Hume Reginald Denny
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.
Drama
USA
1948
106 Minutes
Director
Cornel Wilde Linda Darnell Anne Baxter Kirk Douglas Ann Dvorak Marjorie Rambeau Henry Hull Colleen Townsend Barton MacLane Griff Barnett William Tracy
After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julia Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years later, Algeria... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1935
112 Minutes
Director
Irene Dunne Robert Taylor Charles Butterworth Betty Furness Sara Haden Ralph Morgan Henry Armetta Gilbert Emery Arthur Hoyt
millionaire widow mentor best friend doctor melodramatic heartwarming brightwood hospital house repentance accidental death new love forgiveness sacrifice wretched excess transformation 1930s
The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital's only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1939
90 Minutes
Director
A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
Drama
USA
1947
140 Minutes
Director
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In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Drama
USA
1938
104 Minutes
Director
Adolphe Menjou Andrea Leeds George Murphy Rita Johnson Eve Arden Ann Sheridan
An aging actor, about to marry for the fourth time, is surprised when a young woman, who is the daughter he never knew he had, appears with a "letter of introduction". It seems that she is ... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1937
119 Minutes
Director
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Edna May Oliver Edmund Gwenn Alan Marshal Donald Crisp Billie Burke Donald Meek
politician captain wife rival wealthy woman irishman tense patriotic melodramatic ireland court england estate parliament bedroom charles stewart parnell politics trial infidelity romance
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the ... See full summary »
War
1943
91 Minutes
Director
Henry Fonda Thomas Mitchell Maureen O'Hara Allyn Joslyn Reginald Gardiner Melville Cooper Bramwell Fletcher Morton Lowry
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His tough old sergeant's (Thomas Mitchell) death inspires a World War II corporal (Henry Fonda) to bravery in the Libyan desert.
Drama
1947
117 Minutes
Director
gambler aristocrat rival servant son melodramatic intense moving ireland new orleans ship plantation field graveyard ambition class conflict marriage accidental death drinking financial crisis
An Irish gambler (Rex Harrison) rises socially, marries an aristocrat (Maureen O'Hara) and builds a grand estate in 1820s New Orelans.
Comedy
1949
84 Minutes
Director
The wife (Maureen O'Hara) of a losing football coach (Fred MacMurray) helps him cope with hostile alumni and his growing daughters.