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Spencer Tracy
Age: 67 (passed away Jun. 10th, 1967)
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Born: Dec. 31st, 1969
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BIOGRAPHY: Spencer Tracy was born four years after his brother Carroll to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy. He attended Marquette Academy along with 'Pat OBrien (I) and the two left school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. He was still at Norfolk Navy Yard in VIrginia at the end of the war. At Ripon College he did well in the lead of "The Truth" and decided on acting as a career. In New York he roomed with O'Brien while they attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1923 they both got nonspeaking parts as robots in "R.U.R". In stock he supported himself with jobs as bellhop, janitor and salesman. John Ford (I) saw his critically acclaimed performance in the lead role in in The Last Mile (1932) and signed him to Up the River (1930) for Fox. His family moved to Hollywood in 1931, and Tracy made 16 films in three years. In 1935 he signed with MGM. He became the first actor to win back-to-back Oscars for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938). He was nominated for San Francisco (1936), Father of the Bride (1950), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). He had a brief romantic relationship with Loretta Young in the 1930s and a lifelong one with Katharine Hepburn beginning in 1942. Because he was a Catholic he never divorced his wife Louise, though they lived apart. A few weeks after completion of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), during which he suffered from lung congestion, he died of a heart attack.
TRIVIA:
- Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Garden of Everlasting Peace, on the right just after entering.
- (October 1997) Ranked #64 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
- He was supposed to appear in _Cheyenne Autumn (1964)_ (qv) and _The Cincinnati Kid (1965)_ (qv), but suffered a severe heart attack in 1963. 'Edward G. Robinson (I)' (qv) replaced him in both movies.
- His performance as Henry Drummond in _Inherit the Wind (1960)_ (qv) is ranked #67 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
- Made nine films with 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv), the first of which was _Woman of the Year (1942)_ (qv).
- Sometimes people confuse Spencer Tracy and 'James Whitmore' (qv). The two sometimes look as if they could have been brothers.
- Longtime companion 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv) did not attend his funeral out of respect to his family.
- Secretly diagnosed with diabetes in the late 1940s.
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