Spencer Tracy
Acting
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy won two Academy Awards for Best Actor from nine nominations, sharing the record for nominations in that category with Laurence Olivier. Tracy first discovered his talent for acting while attending Ripon College, and he later received a scholarship for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He spent seven years in the theatre, working in a succession of stock companies and intermittently on Broadway. Tracy's breakthrough came in 1930, when his lead performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood. After a successful film debut in John Ford's Up the River starring Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, he was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation. His five years with Fox featured one acting tour de force after another that were usually ignored at the box office, and he remained largely unknown to audiences after 25 films, almost all of them starring Tracy as the leading man. None of them were hits although The Power and the Glory (1933) features arguably his most acclaimed performance in retrospect. In 1935, Tracy joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, at the time Hollywood's most prestigious studio. His career flourished with a series of hit films, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town. He made three smash hit films supporting Clark Gable, the studio's principal leading man, firmly fixing the notion of Gable and Tracy as a team in the public imagination. By the 1940s, Tracy was one of the studio's top stars. In 1942, he appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, beginning another popular partnership that produced nine movies over 25 years. Tracy left MGM in 1955, and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite an increasing weariness as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness. Tracy became estranged from his wife in the 1930s, but never divorced, conducting a long-term relationship with Katharine Hepburn in private. Towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director Stanley Kramer. It was for Kramer that he made his last film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967, completed just 17 days before his death. During his career, Tracy appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
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Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story
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Rat Pack
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
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Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
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Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
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Bogart: The Untold Story
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered
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La Classe américaine
The Professional Witness (archive footage)
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
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Movie Tough Guys
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
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That's Entertainment, Part II
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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That's Entertainment!
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
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Brasileiros em Hollywood
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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The Big Parade of Comedy
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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How the West Was Won
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Judgment at Nuremberg
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock
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Inherit the Wind
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The Last Hurrah
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The Mountain
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Bad Day at Black Rock
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Broken Lance
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The Actress
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Father's Little Dividend
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Father of the Bride
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Adam's Rib
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Edward, My Son
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State of the Union
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Without Love
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A Guy Named Joe
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Twenty Years After
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Keeper of the Flame
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Ring of Steel
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Woman of the Year
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
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Boom Town
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
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Edison, the Man
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Northwest Passage
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Northward, Ho!
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I Take This Woman
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From the Ends of the Earth
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Hollywood Hobbies
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Boys Town
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Hollywood Goes to Town
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Test Pilot
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Another Romance of Celluloid
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Mannequin
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Big City
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The Romance of Celluloid
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Captains Courageous
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They Gave Him a Gun
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Libeled Lady
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The Power and the Glory
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She Wanted a Millionaire
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