Sunday, March 17, 2024

Academy Founders 12

N.B. The member numbers follow The Internet Movie Database's list order announcing the Academy in January 1927. 


12. John Malcolm Stahl (Jacob Morris Strelitsky, 1886-1950) of the Directors Branch, with Ramon Novarro (Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego, 1899-1968) on the set of LOVERS? (1927).


The uncredited co-director of Ernst Lubitsch's STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG (1927), Stahl's 1930s output included STRICTLY DISHONORABLE (1931), IMITATION OF LIFE (1934), and MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1935). In 1947, again uncredited, he co-directed Otto Preminger's FOREVER AMBER.

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