Spencer Tracy

🎂 Data nașterii: 1900-04-05 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)

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.

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Spencer Tracy

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Tipii duri din filmele artistice

Dr. Jekyll și Dl. Hyde

Judgment at Nuremberg

Ghici cine vine la cină

Procesul maimuțelor

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Taxi Talks

Woman of the Year

Bătrânul și marea

Tatăl miresei

Father's Little Dividend

O lume nebună, nebună, nebună

Desk Set

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

Without Love

Cum a fost câștigat Vestul

Libeled Lady

Coasta lui Adam

Mannequin

Keeper of the Flame

Pat and Mike

State of the Union

The Murder Man

The People Against O'Hara

Broken Lance

Bad Day at Black Rock

Boys Town

Fury

20000 de ani în Sing Sing

A Guy Named Joe

Pilotul de test

Whipsaw

Northwest Passage

Edison, the Man

San Francisco

Malaya

Captains Courageous

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Big City

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Up the River

Plymouth Adventure

Me and My Gal

The Last Hurrah

Boom Town

The Seventh Cross

Muntele

Edward, My Son

The Power and the Glory

The Sea of Grass

Tortilla Flat

Stanley and Livingstone

The Actress

Riffraff

Men of Boys Town

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Man's Castle

Cass Timberlane

They Gave Him a Gun

The Hard Guy

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Quick Millions

Now I'll Tell

Looking for Trouble

Bottoms Up

Marie Galante

Dante's Inferno

Sky Devils

I Take This Woman

Young America

The Show-Off

Goldie

Face in the Sky

Hollywood Hobbies

The Mad Game

It's A Small World

Society Girl

The Painted Woman