Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor. He was known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, from nine nominations. During his career, he 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.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 theater, working in a succession of stock companies and intermittently on Broadway. His 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'' (in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart), he was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation. Tracy's 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 movie audiences after 25 films, nearly all of them starring him as the leading man. None of them were hits, although his performance in ''The Power and the Glory'' (1933) was highly praised at the time.
In 1935, he joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), at the time Hollywood's most prestigious studio. His career flourished from his fifth MGM film ''Fury'' (1936) onwards, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for ''Captains Courageous'' and ''Boys Town''. He teamed with Clark Gable, the studio's most prominent leading man for three major box office successes, so that by the early 1940s Tracy was one of MGM's top stars. In 1942, he appeared with Katharine Hepburn in ''Woman of the Year'', beginning a professional and personal partnership, which led to nine films over 25 years. In 1955, Tracy won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film ''Bad Day at Black Rock''.
Tracy left MGM in 1955, and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite several health issues and an increasing weariness and irritability as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness. Tracy and his wife Louise became estranged in the 1930s, but the couple never divorced; his 25-year long relationship with Katharine Hepburn was an open secret. 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'' (1967), completed just 17 days before he died. Provided by Wikipedia
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Woman of the year / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz ; directed by George Stevens ; screenplay, Ring Lardner, Jr. and Michael Kanin.
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Rudyard Kipling's Captains courageous / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents Victor Fleming's production ; directed by Victor Fleming ; produced by Louis D. Lighton ; screen play by John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly and Dale Van Every.
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Judgment at Nuremberg / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Stanley Kramer presents a United Artists release ; Roxlom Films ; written by Abby Mann ; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. by Mann, Abby, Gold, Ernest, 1921-1999
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