 This is the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel s 12th annual "31 Days of Oscar" festival. For the entire 31 days, each of the feature films and short subjects is a winner or nominee of at least one Academy Award. Each year a different theme is used to relate the films in some manner. This year, the films were linked by their stars. In any given movie, one of the stars appears in the previous film, and one appears in the next one. For instance, _Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)_ (qv) stars  William Powell (I)  (qv); the following movie, _My Man Godfrey (1936)_ (qv), stars Powell and  Carole Lombard (I)  (qv); Lombard appears in the next film, _To Be or Not to Be (1942)_ (qv).