Monthly Wallpaper - February 2013: Best Supporting Actress

February is Oscar time, so naturally this month's Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper takes a look back at the Best Supporting Actresses, the moms and daughters, bad girls and sweethearts who had a date with the Academy's gold man in years past.

These iconic performances of unforgettable characters include Hatty as Mammy, Catherine as Velma, Patty as Helen, Cate as Kate, Rita as Anita, Whoopi as Oda Mae, Judi as Elizabeth, and more.

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Monthly Wallpaper - January 2013 - 2012: The Year in Film

As 2012 comes to a close, it is time to look back on the year in film, and what better way then with the Movie Dearest calendar wallpaper for next month!

Several of 2012's most talked about movies make up the collage, so you can spend all of January 2013 gazing at the likes of Abe, Bilbo, Cosette, Erik & Paul, Hitch, Hushpuppy, James, Merida, Magic Mike and Richard Parker. What a way to start off a new year!

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Monthly Wallpaper - December 2012 - Santas

Since the early silent era to this year's Rise of the Guardians, cinematic Clauses have been ho-ho-ho-ing their way into the hearts and movie memories of generations of film fans. Whether they are conquering the Martians or winning Oscars are just being very, very bad, these Fathers Christmas and Kris Kringles always put us in the holiday spirit.

So what better way to honor them than with their very own Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper for this December. Seasons greetings... and don't forget to put out the cookies!

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Monthly Wallpaper - November 2012 - Cowboys

Yippee-ki-yay! November's Movie Calendar Wallpaper salutes our favorite cinematic Cowboys!

From Butch and Sundance to Jack and Ennis, Woody and Jessie to Rooster... and Rooster, join these good ol' boys (and a couple gals) for a rip-roarin' time all month long.

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Monthly Wallpaper - October 2012: Alfred Hitchcock

What better month than October for a salute to Alfred Hitchcock? The cinematic "Master of Suspense" would find it fitting that he is payed homage in a month known for its tricks and treats.

Our latest Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper features all of Hitch's classics, from the Oscar-winning Best Picture Rebecca to the current Sight & Sound Poll victor Vertigo, not to mention the terrors of Pyscho, the thrills of North by Northwest, the feathered frights of The Birds and the mystery of Rear Window. Plus, the homoeroticly-charged Rope and Strangers on a Train.

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Monthly Wallpaper - September 2012 - Disaster Films

We have all the ingredients for a recipe for disaster with September's Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper salute to Disaster Films: all-star casts, life-or-death scenarios, excessive property damage, large amounts of water, a fireball or two, occasionally questionable special effects and, of course, an Oscar-winning power ballad played over the end credits.

Our "masters of disaster" cinematic canon runs the gamut from blockbusters to cult favorites, plus a classic parody of the entire genre. No doubt about it, this month has disaster written all over it.

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Monthly Wallpaper - August 2012: Silent Film

This August will be filled with the sound of silence... the glorious silence one can only experience while watching the classic plays of light and shadow seen on the silver screen at the dawn of cinema with Silent Film.

Legendary actors (Chaney, Fairbanks, Valentino), actresses (Gish, Pickford, Gaynor), comics (Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd) and directors (Griffith, Lang, Murnau) filled the silent era with laughs, tears, passion and thrills, all on display in this month's Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper.

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Monthly Wallpaper - July 2012: French Cinema

You'll be shouting "Viva la France!" all throughout the month of July with the Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper salute to the best of French Cinema.

From silent classics by the likes of Méliès and Buñuel to modern favorites starring Depardieu and Tautou to the queer cinema classic La Cage aux Folles,this month's selections are all c'est magnifique!

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Monthly Wallpaper - June 2012: Queer Cinema

In celebration of Gay Pride month, Movie Dearest once again offers up a special calendar wallpaper for June paying tribute to some of the best in queer cinema.

The 2012 edition features such classic faves as Victor/Victoria, Ma Vie en Rose and In & Out alongside more recent Dearie Award-winners as The Kids Are All Right and Weekend (available August 21 on DVD and Blu-rayfrom the Criterion Collection).

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Monthly Wallpaper - May 2012: Classic Tearjerkers

Get out your handkerchiefs this month as the Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper celebrates our favorite Classic Tearjerkers.

Cry away in May along with Bambi, Ennis, Jack & Rose, Rick & Ilsa, Sophie, Stella and all the rest of the stars of these beloved weepers.

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Monthly Wallpaper - April 2012: Marlon Brando

In celebration of his 88th birthday this month, Movie Dearest dedicates April's Calendar Wallpaper to one of the greatest actors of the silver screen, Marlon Brando.

Featuring his Academy Award-winning performances as Terry Malloy and Vito Corleone, as well as such other iconic roles as Mark Antony, Fletcher Christian, Jor-El, Stanley Kowalski and Sky Masterson, this tribute surely is an offer you can't refuse.

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Monthly Wallpaper - March 2012: Joan Crawford

107 years ago this March 23rd, little Lucille Fay LeSueur was born. But it was several years before she achieved her destiny as Joan Crawford, one of Hollywood's most enduring stars and the patron saint of this very website.

To celebrate her birth month, Movie Dearest dedicates this month's Calendar Wallpaper to our very own "mommie dearest" in a collage of her iconic roles throughout her career, from the Oscar-winning high of Mildred Pierce to the swan song low of Trog. Also included are some of her most memorable characters, such as Sadie Thompson, Crystal Allen and Blanche Hudson.

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Monthly Wallpaper - February 2012: Best Supporting Actor

With less than a month to go until Oscar night, this month's Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper takes a look back at the Best Supporting Actors, the sidekicks, scene stealers and super villains who took home the Academy's gold man in years past.

These iconic performances of unforgettable characters include Joel as the Emcee, Heath as the Joker, Edmund as Kris, Robert as the Don, George as Bernardo, Martin as Bela, Kevin as Verbal, and more.

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Monthly Wallpaper - January 2012 - 2011: The Year in Film

As 2011 comes to a close, it is time to look back on the year in film, and what better way then with the Movie Dearest calendar wallpaper for next month!

Several of 2011's most popular movies make up the collage, so you can spend all of January gazing at the likes of Albert, Cap, Kermit, Marilyn, Rango, Russell & Glen, Skeeter, Thor and the rest. What a way to start off a new year!

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Monthly Wallpaper - December 2011: Nun's Stories

Just in time for the holidays, this month's Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper salutes cinematic sisterhood with a December dose of Nun's Stories.

As you can see, there's nothing like the role of a nun to attract the attention of our favorite movie actresses, from Ingrid Bergman and Rosalind Russell to Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews to Whoopi Goldberg and Meryl Streep. In everything from dramas to comedies to musicals, it's hard to break the habit of a good nun's story.

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Monthly Wallpaper - November 2011: Steven Spielberg

With not one but two eagerly-awaited films (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and War Horse) coming out later this year, this month's Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper salutes their creator, Academy Award-winning director and producer Steven Spielberg.

From such certified cinematic classics as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Schindler's List to more recent favorites like Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can, November will be filled with all the fantasy, adventure and drama of the films of Spielberg.

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Monthly Wallpaper - October 2011: Werewolves

The full moon is on the rise this October as the Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper for the month salutes our favorite movie Werewolves.

From Lon Chaney Jr. to Benicio Del Toro, Michael Landon to Jack Nicholson, Teen Wolf to Twilight's wolf pack, the lycanthropes are on the ramapage this month as we count down the days to Halloween.

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Monthly Wallpaper - September 2011: Documentaries

With "back to school" time, September is the month for learning. And in film terms, that means Documentaries, our subject for this month's Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper.

On display are some of the all-time best nonfiction films, including the Academy Award winners Bowling for Columbine, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, An Inconvenient Truth, The Living Desert, March of the Penguins, The Times of Harvey Milk and Woodstock.  Also on view are such gay faves as Grey Gardens, Madonna: Truth or Dare and Paris is Burning.

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Monthly Wallpaper - August 2011: Toon Heroes

The wisecracking sidekicks and scene-stealing villains usually get all the attention, but it is the brave and bold Toon Heroes who get the spotlight in this month's Movie Dearest Calendar Wallpaper.

The animated action heroes and heroines of August include such American faves as Pocahontas, Hiccup and the Iron Giant, as well as such international favorites as Kiki, Akira and Wallace & Gromit, plus Roger Rabbit, the original 'toon' star.

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Monthly Wallpaper - July 2011: Kings and Queens

Movie Dearest is a little bit late jumping on the royal wedding bandwagon... we'll just say that we're fashionably late to the festivities with this month's Calendar Wallpaper, a salute to cinematic Kings and Queens.

You'll be sharing the month of July with two King Georges, two King Henrys and three Queens Elizabeth, as well as Arthur, Christina, Eleanor, Victoria and the King of Siam.

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