Directed by John M. Stahl - Criterion Channel Teaser

Master of the 1930s Hollywood melodrama John M. Stahl was a specialist in remarkable “women’s pictures” that addressed taboo issues of their day with supreme sensitivity. These revelatory selections from Stahl’s heyday at Universal Pictures are quietly subversive in their empathetic understanding of the social constraints and hypocrisies that shape women’s lives. Watch our Directed by John M. Stahl series on the Criterion Channel!