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TCM's 31 Days of Oscar

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"TCM’s annual 31 Days of Oscar programming returns for its 28th year, kicking off on March 1st with a month-long showcase of films recognized by the Academy.This year we will be celebrating The Winners, where each of the featured films across the 31 days has won an Oscar." 

 

Previously,  nominated but non-winning films were included. 

 

The array of films begins with the early Award days such as "The Jazz Singer" 1927, Oscar awarded to Warner Brothers for pioneering sound and revolutionizing the film industry,  1929's "The Broadway Melody", Best Picture and "Coquette", Best Actress, Mary Pickford, to 2011's "The Iron Lady", the most recent film to be shown. 

 

All decades are represented, with classics from the 30s, 40s and 50s.

 

Your favorite Best Picture winner is likely included.

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On Saturday March 12 the movie  "Johnny Eager" is going to be shown. Glad it was included in the line up.

 

Is that how you decided on your name @Johnnyeager ?

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It was either that or Roy Cronin.

 

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Some of my favorites being shown: Picture of Dorian Gray, Key Largo, Gentleman's Agreement, Gaslight, Picnic, Written on the Wind, The Bad and The Beautiful,  Love Me or Leave Me, Black Narcissus, The More the Merrier, All About Eve, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Wuthering Heights, The Paper Chase, Pride of the Yankees, Pillow Talk, Sweet Bird of Youth, Network.....

 

 

A veritable feast for classic film fans.

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@Johnnyeager 

 

I watched "Waterloo Bridge" because  Robert Osborne recommended it. Couldn't believe I had not seen or heard of it before. 

 

From then on - I followed Robert's Picks.

 

 

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Some of my favorites being shown: Picture of Dorian Gray, Key Largo, Gentleman's Agreement, Gaslight, Picnic, Written on the Wind, The Bad and The Beautiful,  Love Me or Leave Me, Black Narcissus, The More the Merrier, All About Eve, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Wuthering Heights, The Paper Chase, Pride of the Yankees, Pillow Talk, Sweet Bird of Youth, Network.....

 

 

A veritable feast for classic film fans.


This is a nice group of films. It's unfortunate, though, that TCM does tend to show many of the same movies quite often while others, to which one assumes they don't have the rights, languish. 


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@Johnnyeager wrote:

Some of my favorites being shown: Picture of Dorian Gray, Key Largo, Gentleman's Agreement, Gaslight, Picnic, Written on the Wind, The Bad and The Beautiful,  Love Me or Leave Me, Black Narcissus, The More the Merrier, All About Eve, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Wuthering Heights, The Paper Chase, Pride of the Yankees, Pillow Talk, Sweet Bird of Youth, Network.....

 

 

A veritable feast for classic film fans.


This is a nice group of films. It's unfortunate, though, that TCM does tend to show many of the same movies quite often while others, to which one assumes they don't have the right, languish. 


@stevieb 

 

I used to enjoy TCM's little known "gems" from the 40's that they use to show-perhaps the actors arent well known to modern audiences (example Virginia Bruce  and the movie, "Stronger Than Desire" comes to mind) but these films had wonderful plots, were creative and imaginative, well acted, and thoroughly enjoyable---and a breath of fresh air instead seeing the "The Treasure Of Sierra Madre", "Casablanca", "His Girl Friday" "North By Northwest" and others for the ZILLIONTH TIME!---nothing wrong with these films, but some are almost shown every few weeks it seems....there are so many other options to explore to keep viewers interested...🤷‍♀️

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The 14th Annual Awards were held February 1942 shortly after Pearl Harbor.  The wartime ceremony was toned down, with subdued gowns, uniforms and few tuxedos.

 

Acting winners Joan Fontaine,  Gary Cooper, Mary Astor and Donald Crisp.  At that time, Supporting Award winners received plaques instead of the Oscar statuette. 

 

 

 

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At the 30th Awards banquet in March 1958 Paul Newman gazes lovingly at his Oscar winning wife, Joanne Woodward. 

 

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Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage,  March 21, 1956.

 

Audrey presented Best Picture (Marty), and Grace awarded the Best Actor Oscar to its star, Ernest Borgnine.

 

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