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 Spencer Tracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900– June 10, 1967) was an American film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967.
A new full length biography of Spencer Tracy is currently being written by James Curtis, author of the acclaimed 2003 biography of W.C. Fields.
Tracy's paternal grandparents, John Tracy and Mary Guhin, were born in Ireland.
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 Spencer Tracy at Classic Movie Stars
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was born April 5, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Tracy's health began to fail; he was hospitalized with a congested lung condition in 1963, and was forced to turn down roles in several films in the following years.
Tracy's son John graduated from college, and was married in 1953.
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 Spencer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Spencer - a co-founder of Marks and Spencer plc.
In the Thomas the Tank Engine stories, Spencer was a visiting locomotive based on the LNER Class A4 tender locomotive.
Henry Spencer - The author, computer programmer and Usnet presence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spencer   (276 words)

  
 Tracy, Spencer on Encyclopedia.com
Spencer Tracy et Katharin Hepburn en 1945 Katharin Hepburn, cette forte personnalité, fonceuse et frondeuse, restera aussi.
Spencer Tracy et Katharin Hepburn en 1942 dans "La femme de l'année" Réunis pour la première fois en 1941 pour le tournage.
C118/9: The Show Off.: head shot of Spencer Tracy
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 Bio for Spencer Tracy on MSN Movies
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They were clearly soulmates, yet Tracy, a devout Catholic, refused to entertain the thought of a divorce; instead, they carried on their affair in secrecy, their undeniable chemistry spilling over onto their onscreen meetings like Keeper of the Flame.
Tracy's performance as an imprisoned killer in 1930's The Last Mile made him a stage star, and during its Broadway run he made a pair of shorts for Vitaphone, The Hard Guy and Taxi Talks.
entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=347265&mp=b   (1041 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy, frequently defined by his peers as "an actor& actor&;" was the prime exemplar of understated acting in both comedy and drama.
In this film, Tracy starred as a criminal who confesses to a murder of which he is innocent, and the actor was given ample opportunity to display toughness and humanity in equal measure.
Born in Milwaukee, Tracy was the son of a truck salesman.
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 IM's Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 1:57 am CST to John Edward Tracy and his wife Caroline Brown.
Spencer Tracy: one of the most enduring stars of our time.
Tracy and Gable were one of the few male duos that struck a chord with the theater going audience, so this match was used again and again.
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 Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was often referred to as "the actor's actor."
Tracy originally studied for the priesthood, but quit school to join the U.S. Navy, serving in World War I. He returned home after the war, and was attending classes at Ripon College in Wisconsin when he landed the lead role in a school play, "The Truth," which convinced him to pursue acting as a career.
Tracy said the only rules of acting were, "Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors." Despite his apparent simplicity, other actors still point to Tracy as their model.
www.cemeteryguide.com /tracy.html   (601 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy The Face of Integrity by Chester Erskine
He freed Tracy from bondage to Gable and cast him opposite some of Hollywood's loveliest ladies, all of whom he was permitted to win by the script, and several of whom he won off-screen, regardless of script or permit.
(1967), Tracy's last appearance, was a courageous story for the time, in which a couple, played by Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, come to accept the fact of a black husband for their daughter.
Tracy finished his contract at MGM with a masterful performance in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) as the one-armed war veteran who uncovers a town's guilty secret: for this he received his fifth Oscar nomination.
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 Spencer Tracy Photo Page - MovieActors.com
Spencer Tracy with Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier
"Spencer Tracy, you're the best damn actor I ever saw." Pretty big compliment for a rookie.
Tracy could challenge, charm, and inspire audiences of all ages.
www.movieactors.com /40stars/tracy2.htm   (151 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy
Tracy's most memorable collaborations were with his off-screen lover Katharine Hepburn and with Clark Gable, another star who defined rugged leading man in different terms than Tracy.
Tracy was paired with some of the most glamorous Hollywood stars including Joan Bennett, Jean Harlow, Faye Wray, Loretta Young, Bette Davis, Sylvia Sydney, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, Claudette Colbert, Lana Turner.
Tracy won his first of two consecutive Best Actor Oscars® for his role as the Portuguese fisherman Manuel.
www.filmsondisc.com /posterarchive/tracy.htm   (598 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy
Born Spencer Bonaventure Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; nicknamed "Spence." In the early 1930s, Spencer Tracy's truculent attitude and thunderingly aberrant behavior were his only defenses against studio power brokers who cast him as stereotypical con men, buddies and gangsters.
Tracy had a brief romantic relationship with Loretta Young in the 1930s and a life-long one with Katharine Hepburn that began in 1942.
Tracy's early childhood was one of intense rebelliousness -- he was expelled from a total of fifteen grade schools.
theoscarsite.com /whoswho/tracy_s.htm   (983 words)

  
 Keeper of the Flame - 1942 - Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn,
One of those reporters is Spencer Tracy who by some chicanery gains entrance to the place and meets the widow Forrest and her husband's chief aide Richard Whorf.
Keeper of the Flame - 1942 - Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn,
Tracy and Hepburn are at their professional best working for the first time with George Cukor who later guided them through Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike.
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 Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was one of the very few in Hollywood history who won over all three groups.
Tracy's next few assignments-in They Gave Him a Gun, The Big City, Mannequin (all 1937), and Test Pilot (1938, again in support of Gable and Loy)weren't particularly demanding, nor were the films particularly great.
Tracy's skillful performance, coupled with his "Last Mile" fame, kept him confined to gangster and tough-guy roles for his first several years in Hollywood.
www.movietreasures.com /main/Spencer_Tracy/spencer_tracy.html   (1744 words)

  
 JS Online: Acting great Spencer Tracy spent his youth in Milwaukee, left and never looked back
Spencer Tracy as a lad of 9, in the only photo of him known to exist from his Milwaukee youth.
Tracy won back-to-back Oscars in the late '30s for "Captains Courageous" and "Boys Town," and by middle age he was almost literally canonized.
Although Tracy, who died in 1967, was a major movie star for three decades, today's public probably thinks of him more as the partner - public and private - of Hepburn.
www.jsonline.com /enter/gen/mar00/wkd--tracyce032900.asp   (1634 words)

  
 The religion of Spencer Tracy, actor
Spencer Tracy existed, but she and her husband had not lived together for nearly thirty years.
Spencer Tracy's problems were not likely to disappear.
In 1986, Katharine Hepburn wrote an open, public lever to her Spencer Tracy, who had by then been dead for two decades.
www.adherents.com /people/pt/Spencer_Tracy.html   (2921 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy Zone - A Fan Site Dedicated To Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
Spencer Tracy was often cited by his contemporaries as the best actor in films.
In a total of 75 films spanning a 37-year career, Spencer Tracy could do it all, and he did it better than anyone else before or since
Tracy portrayed characters with such naturalness, such ease, that you almost forget you are watching a performance - he simply is the man he is playing.
www.geocities.com /spencertracyzone   (149 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Spencer Tracy in The Sea of Grass (1947).
Information on this mystery thriller movie based on Howard Breslin's novel featuring Spencer Tracy.
In a film career that spanned from 1930 to 1967, Spencer Tracy starred in more than 60 pictures and won two Academy awards.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9073130   (733 words)

  
 IGN: The Stax Report: A Tribute to Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy plays Joe Wilson, an unfortunate "everyman" wrongfully suspected of being part of a kidnapping plot when a bill from the ransom money is found on him.
Spencer Tracy's filmography reveals a more consistent level of excellence than Brando has shown (especially in the last twenty years).
Rather than simply praise his "greatest hits" (the aforementioned films), I've decided to showcase some less celebrated gems from Spencer Tracy's remarkable screen legacy.
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 ClassicFlix - Rent Classic Movies
Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945...
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of...
Sent to Ossining Prison (popularly known as Sing Sing), influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules.
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 Spencer Tracy News
This wouldn't be good news to Spencer Tracy, who is dead and shouldn't care, or to Steve Martin, who is alive but doesn't know who the heck I am, but we all have something in common: I am going to be the father...
Veteran actor Morgan Freeman has been presented with the 'Spencer Tracy Award' by UCLA for his 'outstanding screen performance and professional achievement' during their ceremony on March 7,2006, according to a...
Chicago will soon be home to one of the famed institutions immortalized by Spencer Tracy in the 1938 Academy Award-winning film "Boys Town." Elected officials joined about 100 community residents from the...
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 Spencer Tracy
The remarkable talents of Spencer Tracy made him one of Hollywood's most popular figures throughout his career.
Beginning as a stage player in the 1920's, Tracy segued easily into films, in which he portrayed characters as diverse as priests and gangsters, writers and lawyers, fishermen and judges.
Tracy received back-to-back Academy Awards in 1937 and 1938 for Captains Courageous and Boys Town.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/Tracy.html   (111 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy - MovieActors.com
Spencer Tracy maintained a mostly secret romance with frequent co-star Katharine Hepburn, secret because he was married at the time.
Craggy, likable, and sincere-seeming, Spencer Tracy was considered by many of his peers of the time, including Humphrey Bogart, as the best living American actor.
Spencer Tracy played gangsters, priests, and best friends, until coming into his own as a screen star.
www.movieactors.com /40stars/tracy.htm   (137 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn - Hot Couples Compatibility Reading
Spencer begins life with the question posed to every solar superhero, "How will you use your super powers?" Spencer is here to start something new, to go where no one else has gone and to do what no one else has done.
Spencer is, in fact, contemplative and attuned to and aware of subtle psychological states.
Spencer is somewhat psychic, intuitive, telepathic and receptive to the thoughts of others.
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 Art 2 Order
Joe, the only grandchild of Louise and Spencer Tracy, has been drawing since the age of four and followed in his father's footsteps.
John Tracy Clinic in Los Angeles in 1942; and the clinic named after John who was born profoundly deaf.
Today, Joe Tracy is a freelance illustrator in the Los Angeles area, his client list consist of Davis and Glick Productions in Hollywood, California, creating storyboard layouts for Soldier of Fortune, Power of Attorney, and Kick Boxer and the Kid.
www.art2order.net /artist.html   (552 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was born four years after his brother Carroll to truck salesman...
Find where Spencer Tracy is credited alongside another name
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986) (TV)
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 Spencer Tracy
The play opens in 1967 when Tracy was in poor health and struggling to complete what would be his final film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
He shows Tracy reacting with human frailties...but it's mostly an admiring look at the man."
Alone in his rented guest cottage, he reflects with great guilt on his days as a rough street kid in Milwaukee; his troubled marriage; his drinking problem; the birth of his deaf son; and his romances with Loretta Young and Katharine Hepburn.
pw1.netcom.com /~druxy/Tracy.htm   (181 words)

  
 Deltoid » Sockdar
Tracy Spencer was a pop singer in the 80s but our Tracy might be a different person.
For example did he mean Tracy Spenser the singer or was it a craftily composed variation of Spencer Tracy?
Tracy Spenser is a crazed Michael Fumento fan and is posting from the same house as him.
timlambert.org /2005/11/sockdar   (863 words)

  
 Spencer Tracy at Reel Classics
Spencer Tracy, tragic idol by Bill Davidson (New York: Dutton, c1987).
The films of Spencer Tracy by Donald Deschner (New York: Citadel Press, 1968).
TV Now's monthly Spencer Tracy schedule -when his films will be on TV Greatest Films: ADAM'S RIB
www.reelclassics.com /Actors/Tracy/tracy.htm   (257 words)

  
 A Centennial Tribute to Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was born on April 5, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
You can find out more about Spencer Tracy by visiting the Web pages I've collected.
Part II: Spencer Tracy Tributes and Other Pages
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