- Directed two actors to Oscar nominations: Gregory Peck (Best Actor, The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)) and Gene Tierney (Best Actress, Leave Her to Heaven (1945)).
- Died on January 12, 1950 in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital of a heart attack. He had been hospitalized since New Year's Day with pneumonia.
- One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
- Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6546 Hollywood Blvd..
- Founder and president of John M. Stahl Productions, formed in 1921.
- He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Imitation of Life (1934) and Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
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