31 Days of Best Actresses

It's back: TCM's 31 Days of Oscars is coming to the channel for the full month of March, and I've combed the schedule to find all of the films being showcased that have either won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role or have been nominated.


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In total, 134 films will be featured over the month, with 35 of those featuring Oscar-winning performances. Every single Best Actress-winning performance from the '30s will be featured this month, with healthy representation from every other classic film decade. I've indicated below in bold which movies have winning performances in them. 

If you want to beef up your knowledge of the films that have earned Oscar gold for talented actresses from the 1920s onward, here are all the films that'll be featured during TCM's 31 Days of Oscar! 

March 1


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The Yearling (1946) - Jane Wyman, nominated
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) - Dorothy McGuire, nominated
Gaslight (1944) - Ingrid Bergman, won
Suspicion (1941) - Joan Fontaine, won
The Pride of the Yankees (1942) - Teresa Wright, nominated

March 2

Room at the Top (1959) - Simone Signoret, won
The King and I (1956) - Deborah Kerr, nominated

March 3

The Lion in Winter (1968) - Katharine Hepburn, won 
BUtterfield 8 (1960) - Elizabeth Taylor, won
Never On Sunday (1960) - Melina Mercouri, nominated
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) - Geraldine Page, nominated
The Apartment (1960) - Shirley MacLaine, nominated
The Graduate (1967) - Anne Bancroft, nominated

March 4

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) - Ellen Burtsyn, won
Cabaret (1972) - Liza Minnelli, won
Network (1976) - Faye Dunaway, won

March 5

The Good Earth (1937) - Luise Rainer, won

March 6


Pygmalion (1938) - Wendy Hiller, nominated
Woman of the Year (1942) - Katharine Hepburn, nominated
Pillow Talk (1959) - Doris Day, nominated
The Iron Lady (2011) - Meryl Streep, won
Shakespeare in Love (1998) - Gwyneth Paltrow, won

March 7

Coquette (1929) - Mary Pickford, won
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - Luise Rainer, won
A Star is Born (1937) - Janet Gaynor, nominated

March 8


The Philadelphia Story (1940) - Katharine Hepburn, nominated
The More the Merrier (1943) - Jean Arthur, nominated

March 9

Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955) - Jennifer Jones, nominated
From Here to Eternity (1953) - Deborah Kerr, nominated

March 10

No films featured

March 11

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Janet Suzman, nominated
The Way We Were (1973) - Barbra Streisand, nominated
Julia (1977) - Jane Fonda, nominated
Klute (1971) - Jane Fonda, won
Ryan's Daughter (1970) - Sarah Miles, nominated

March 12


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The Subject Was Roses (1968) - Patricia Neal, nominated
Victor/Victoria (1982) - Julie Andrews, nominated

March 13

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Faye Dunaway, nominated
Sense and Sensibility (1995) - Emma Thompson, nominated

March 14


A Free Soul (1931) - Norma Shearer, nominated
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) - Helen Hayes, won
The Divorcee (1930) - Norma Shearer, won
The Dark Angel (1935) - Merle Oberon, nominated
Dangerous (1935) - Bette Davis, won

March 15

No films featured

March 16

Interrupted Melody (1955) - Eleanor Parker, nominated
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) - Susan Hayward, nominated
Born Yesterday (1950) - Judy Holliday, won

March 17

The Shop on Main Street (1965) - Ida KamiÅ„ska, nominated
Two Women (1960) - Sophia Loren, won 

March 18

Travels With My Aunt (1972) - Maggie Smith, nominated
The Goodbye Girl (1977) - Marsha Mason, nominated
Annie Hall (1977) - Diane Keaton, won

March 19


Out of Africa (1985) - Meryl Streep, nominated
On Golden Pond (1981) - Katharine Hepburn, won
Places in the Heart (1984) - Sally Field, won

March 20 - Daytime theme is Best Actress Winners


Morning Glory (1933) - Katharine Hepburn, won
Jezebel (1938) - Bette Davis, won
Johnny Belinda (1948) - Jane Wyman, won 
I Want to Live! (1958) - Susan Hayward, won
Mildred Pierce (1945) - Joan Crawford, won 
A Trip to Bountiful (1985) - Geraldine Page, won
The Miracle Worker (1962) - Anne Bancroft, won
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - Elizabeth Shue, nominated

March 21 

The Awful Truth (1937) - Irene Dunne, nominated
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) - Greer Garson, nominated
The Broadway Melody (1929) - Bessie Love, nominated

March 22

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Kitty Foyle (1940) - Ginger Rogers, won

March 23

Lili (1953) - Leslie Caron, nominated
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Vivien Leigh, won

March 24

Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Natalie Wood, nominated
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) - Bette Davis, nominated

March 25

No films featured

March 26

A Passage to India (1984) - Judy Davis, nominated
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) - Glenn Close, nominated

March 27


It Happened One Night (1934) - Claudette Colbert, won
All About Eve (1950) - Bette Davis, nominated; Anne Baxter, nominated
Gone with the Wind (1939) - Vivien Leigh, nominated

March 28

Min and Bill (1930) - Marie Dressler, won
The Divine Lady (1929) - Corinne Griffith, nominated
Cimarron (1931) - Irene Dunne, nominated

March 29

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Blossoms in the Dust (1941) - Greer Garson, nominated
Now, Voyager (1942) - Bette Davis, nominated

March 30 

No films featured

March 31


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) - Elizabeth Taylor, won
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - Lee Remick, nominated
A Patch of Blue (1965) - Elizabeth Hardman, nominated
The Hustler (1961) - Piper Laurie, nominated

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