Caftan Woman's Choice
A monthly feature on my blog which puts the spotlight on one favourite or outstanding film on the TCM lineup. The feature has run continually since September 2011.
Note: Changes to the TCM website in the fall of 2020 have made accessing future information difficult, which places this blog feature in a precarious position.
Note: Changes to the TCM website in the fall of 2020 have made accessing future information difficult, which places this blog feature in a precarious position.
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- DirectorFrank CapraAllan DwanRoy William NeillStarsWalter HustonPat O'BrienKay JohnsonSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all during the same day.September 2011: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2011/09/caftan-womans-choice-september-on-tcm.html
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsRobert RyanAudrey TotterGeorge TobiasExpecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.October 2011: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2011/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsRonald ReaganPatricia NealRichard ToddIn the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a seriously wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.November 2011: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2011/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-november.html
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsAlastair SimJack WarnerKathleen HarrisonEbenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.December 2011: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2011/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsDavid BrianClaude Jarman Jr.Juano HernandezIn 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.January 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneThomas MitchellIan HunterA merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.February 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-february.html
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsDoris DayJames CagneyCameron MitchellA fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.April 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/04/ruth-etting-was-very-popular-vocalist.html
Note: there was no selection for March 2012 due to computer crash. - DirectorJacques TourneurStarsJoel McCreaEllen DrewDean StockwellIn 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.May 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-may-on-tcm.html
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneHenry FondaShirley TempleAt Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.June 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/06/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-june-on.html
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLeslie HowardHumphrey BogartJoan BlondellA New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.July 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-july-on.html
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsRobert DonatDeborah KerrGlynis JohnsA dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.August 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/08/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-august-on.html
- DirectorFielder CookStarsHenry FondaJoanne WoodwardJason RobardsComedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow.September 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-september.html
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsCharles LaughtonJohn MillsBrenda de BanzieWidower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.October 2012: htmlhttps://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/10/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorWalter LangWilliam A. SeiterStarsShirley TempleRichard GreeneAnita LouiseA little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.November 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-november.html?m=1
- DirectorGus MeinsCharley RogersStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyVirginia KarnsOpposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.December 2012: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsCharles McGrawAdele JergensWilliam TalmanA well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.January 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantDoris NolanA young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.February 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-february.html
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsDick PowellClaire TrevorAnne ShirleyAfter being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.March 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/03/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-march-on.html
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsRex HarrisonLinda DarnellRudy ValleeA man dreams of revenge when he suspects his wife is unfaithful.April 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-april-on.html
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartShelley WintersDan DuryeaA cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.May 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/05/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-may-on-tcm.html
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPeter SellersTippy WalkerMerrie SpaethA mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.June 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/06/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-june-on-tcm.html
- DirectorFritz LangStarsGlenn FordGloria GrahameJocelyn BrandoTough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.July 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-july-on-tcm.html
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsGeorge SandersLucille BallCharles CoburnBritish police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.August 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/08/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-august-on.html
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsHarry BelafonteRobert RyanGloria GrahameIn need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.September 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-september.html
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJames WhitmoreEdmund GwennJoan WeldonThe earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.October 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsRicardo MontalbanGeorge MurphyHoward Da SilvaMexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.November 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-november.html
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsSonja HenieJohn PayneGlenn MillerAfter Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort, its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. Later, soloist Vivian Dawn quits and Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.December 2013: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorJack GageStarsRosalind RussellLeo GennClaire TrevorA Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it after the police investigator targets a rival actress.January 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html
- DirectorHerbert RossStarsWalter MatthauGeorge BurnsRichard BenjaminA vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.February 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-february.html
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnBrenda MarshallClaude RainsGeoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.March 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/03/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-march-on.html
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraBen JohnsonA cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.April 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/03/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-april-on.html
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.May 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-may-on-tcm.html
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsCharles BoyerLouis JourdanMarsha HuntSpring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert, who's blind to the attentions of an American neighbor girl, because he's infatuated with the beautiful new maid, fleeing life as a magician's assistant.June 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/05/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-june-on-tcm.html
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsRobert MitchumJane GreerWilliam BendixAn army lieutenant accused of robbery pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's fiancee.July 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-july-on-tcm.html
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsPaul MuniAnne BaxterClaude RainsThe Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.August 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/08/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-august-on.html
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsWilliam HoldenBarbara StanwyckJune AllysonWhen the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.September 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/08/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-september.html
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsAlastair SimSally GrayTrevor HowardAfter the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder also dies, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.October 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsEdward G. RobinsonJane WymanBroderick CrawfordThree ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...November 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-november.html
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsFreddie BartholomewFrank LawtonEdna May OliverA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.December 2014: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorVincente MinnelliBusby BerkeleyStarsEthel WatersEddie 'Rochester' AndersonLena HorneA compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.January 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersEdward Everett HortonAn American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.February 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-february.html
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsFredric MarchEdmond O'BrienFlorence EldridgeA hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.March 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/03/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-march-on.html
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsGeorge RaftHumphrey BogartAnn SheridanWhen one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.April 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/03/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-april-on.html
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsCharlton HestonOrson WellesJanet LeighA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.May 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-may-on-tcm.html
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsAnn SheridanDennis O'KeefeRobert KeithFrank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder. He's pursued around San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the killer.June 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/05/
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam PowellIrene DunneElizabeth TaylorA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.July 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/06/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-july-on-tcm.html
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsDick PowellPaula RaymondAdolphe MenjouA New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.August 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-august-on.html
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyOlivia de HavillandRita HayworthQuick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.September 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/08/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-september.html
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsDana AndrewsPeggy CumminsNiall MacGinnisAmerican professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.October 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/10/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsVictor MatureBrian DonlevyColeen GrayA crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.November 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-november.html
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterHamilton LuskeStarsBurl IvesBeulah BondiBobby DriscollThis heartwarming classic tells the tale of a country boy who adopts a mischevious black lamb and learns valuable lessons about love and dedication.December 2015: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsFred MacMurrayNancy OlsonKeenan WynnA college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.January 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsPriscilla LaneBetty FieldRichard Whorf"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music. The dedication isn't paying off financially and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend gangster Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that Character is about to have a baby, he returns to her. Jigger tries to make Kay the band's singer and, after this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing but a nervous breakdown. Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him, and plans to take back up with Jigger, who knows better but just can't help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two-passenger crash. The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues.February 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-february.html
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMiriam HopkinsMerle OberonJoel McCreaTwo schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.March 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-march-on.html
- DirectorNicholas RayIda LupinoStarsIda LupinoRobert RyanWard BondRough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.April 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/03/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-april-on.html
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsVincent PricePeter LorreBoris KarloffDishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.May 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-may-on-tcm.html
- DirectorEdward SedgwickBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonMarceline DayHarold GoodwinHopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.June 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/06/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-june-on-tcm.html
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsShirley BoothRobert RyanMarjie MillarA rooming-house landlady recalls her past in flashbacks.July 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/06/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-july-on-tcm.html
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsLucille BallClifton WebbWilliam BendixA secretary tries to help her boss who's been framed for murder.August 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-august-on.html
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn BarrymoreCarole LombardWalter ConnollyA flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.September 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/08/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-september.html
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsGlenn FordGeraldine PageAngela LansburyBubbly, middle-aged Evie Jackson has been single and alone for quite some time. When she attends a postmasters' convention at a New York City hotel, she meets rakish greeting card salesman Harry Mork and falls in love.October 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLeslie BanksEdna BestPeter LorreAn ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.November 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/10/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-november.html
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRandolph ScottKaren SteelePernell RobertsA bounty hunter (Randolph Scott) escorts a killer (James Best) to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother (Lee Van Cleef) to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.December 2016: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJohn ForsytheShirley MacLaineEdmund GwennHarry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.January 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsConstance BennettBrian AherneAlan MowbrayDizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.February 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-february.html
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsKatharine HepburnFranchot ToneEric BloreIn the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.March 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-march-on.html
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsCharles BoyerRita HayworthGinger RogersA formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.April 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-april-on.html
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartRuth RomanCorinne CalvetA self-minded adventurer locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson.May 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-may-on-tcm.html
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsEric PortmanSheila SimDennis PriceThree modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.June 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/06/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-june-on-tcm.html
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsHope LangeStephen BoydSuzy ParkerAn expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.July 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/06/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-july-on-tcm.html
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRobert YoungRobert MitchumRobert RyanA man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?August 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-august-on.html
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsCharles BoyerJennifer JonesPeter LawfordA free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.September 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-september.html
- DirectorGunther von FritschRobert WiseStarsSimone SimonKent SmithJane RandolphThe young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.October 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/10/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorWalter LangStarsClifton WebbMyrna LoyJeanne CrainMyrna Loy plays the wife of the persnickety father of her 12 children, Clifton Webb, who has uniquely humorous methods for dealing with the ordeals such an unwieldy family undoubtedly encounters.November 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-november.html
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckEdward ArnoldA penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.December 2017: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRandolph ScottNancy GatesClaude AkinsA man saves a woman who had been kidnapped by Comanches, then struggles to get both of them home alive.January 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiJean-Pierre ZolaAdrienne ServantieMonsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.February 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-february.html
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsNorma ShearerFredric MarchCharles LaughtonElizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.March 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-march-on.html
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsDorothy DandridgePhilip HepburnHarry BelafonteBased on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a 4th generation schoolteacher from the British West Indies. Jane Richards, a young 4th grade teacher in the South, faces a challenge in the form of 11 year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy, whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and liar. Jane believes in him, then discovers his interest in nature when he spends his time watching a caterpillar in a tree trunk as it develops a cocoon. C. T.'s devoted to his family and especially to Tanya, who adores him. When Tanya dies, despite Dr. Mitchell's efforts to save her, the embittered C.T. stays away from school; when he returns, he gets into a fight and gets sent to Coventry. But when a swarm of bees invades the classroom and panics the students, C.T. takes charge, captures the queen bee, and leads the swarm outside, earning the school principal's praise. But C.T. has urgent business: the cocoon's splitting and a butterfly's ready to emerge. He had meant it for Tanya, but he now presents it to Jane, who calls the other children to watch the unfolding miracle of nature.April 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-april-on.html
- DirectorKing VidorStarsSylvia SidneyWilliam Collier Jr.Estelle TaylorTwenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.May 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-may-on-tcm.html
- DirectorAnthony AsquithLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardWendy HillerWilfrid LawsonA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.June 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/06/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-june-on-tcm.html
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsJune AllysonArthur KennedyGary MerrillA young woman decides to become a doctor at a time when women are not being made welcome in the field of medicine. Eventually, her determination and skills end up earning the respect of her male counterparts.July 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-july-on-tcm.html
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerSam TaylorStarsHarold LloydJobyna RalstonBrooks BenedictA nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.August 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-august-on.html
- DirectorElia KazanStarsRichard WidmarkPaul DouglasBarbara Bel GeddesA doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.September 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-september.html
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiCharles CrichtonBasil DeardenStarsMervyn JohnsMichael RedgraveRoland CulverGuests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.October 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/10/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsRobert CummingsBrian DonlevyMarjorie ReynoldsAn angel is sent to earth to help save the soul of a saloon and gambling house owner.November 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/11/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-november.html
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyAlan HaleTwo pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.December 2018: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsLeslie HowardHumphrey BogartBette DavisA waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.January 2019https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html:
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsRoy RogersSmiley BurnetteCarol HughesRoy is elected to Congress to bring the misery of the "dustbowl" of the 1930s to the attention of Washington politicians.February 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-february.html
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsFredric MarchDan DuryeaEdmond O'BrienThis 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.March 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/02/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-march-on.html
- DirectorJames Edward GrantStarsJohn WayneGail RussellHarry CareyQuirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.April 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-april-on.html
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsRosalind RussellJack CarsonRobert HuttonDetermined to overcome poverty, Louise Randall attends business school and weds Rodney Crane. Her driven nature leads to marital breakdown. She navigates career growth and family life with new spouse Harold, striving for a better future.May 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/04/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-may-on-tcm.html
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBrian DonlevyElla RainesCharles CoburnA unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.June 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/05/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-june-on-tcm.html
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsJohn ClementsRalph RichardsonC. Aubrey SmithA British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.July 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-july-on-tcm.html
- DirectorHoward HawksWilliam WylerRichard RossonStarsEdward ArnoldJoel McCreaFrances FarmerAn ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.August 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/07/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-august-on.html
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico MarxRufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.September 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/08/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-september.html
- DirectorSam WoodStarsWilliam HoldenMartha ScottFay BainterChange comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.October 2019:https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/09/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-october-on.html
- DirectorWalter LangStarsRobert YoungMaureen O'HaraClifton WebbA family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who's a quirky genius.November 2019:https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/11/due-november-1-caftan-womans-choice.html
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJoan BlondellGrant MitchellVivienne OsborneReporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.December 2019: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/12/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-december.html
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsBarbara StanwyckGeorge BrentWarner AndersonA recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.January 2020: https://www.caftanwoman.com/2020/01/caftan-womans-choice-one-for-january-on.html