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Spencer Tracy: A Biography. By James Curtis. Alfred A. Knopf, , 1, pp. $
He&#;s the kind of actor who makes it look so easy and you think to yourself, I can do that. Go ahead and try it. It&#;s not easy and you can&#;t do it.
Spencer Tracy is widely considered to be the greatest film actor of the 20th century. Perhaps even the greatest actor of all time. Clark Gable considered him untouchable. &#;The guy`s good,&#; Gable famously said. &#;There`s nobody in the business who can touch him, and you`re a fool to try. And the bastard knows it, so don`t fall for that humble stuff!&#;
Having recently plowed through mammoth biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Walter Cronkite, two of the seminal figures in the second half of the twentieth century, inom decided to complete the triumvirate by reading James Curtis&#;s recent biography of my favorite actor. At almost exactly 1, pages, it&#;s not a fast read, but it&#;s a wonderful journey.
I first encountered Spencer Tracy as a co
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Spencer Tracy
Long before there was Branjelina, there was Spencenkate. The year love affair and nine-film collaboration of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn is probably the one thing most people remember about the man theater legend George M. Cohan called in , at the outset of Tracy's career, “the best goddamned actor I've ever seen.” The tribute was echoed by directors, colleagues, and audiences for the next 41 years.
James Curtis's new biography is designed to end the partial eclipse of Tracy bygd the more vivid and long-lived Hepburn, though the book's enormous length may be a hindrance. Tracy deserves to be remembered for himself, as a mästare of acting technique whose essence Hepburn herself defined: “He never got in his own way. I still do.” John Ford, who directed Tracy's first feature film, “Up the River,” and one of his last, “The Last Hurrah,” agreed: “When inom say Spencer Tracy is t
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Spencer Tracy
American actor (–)
For the band, see Spencer Tracy (band).
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, &#;– June 10, ) 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 , the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.[1]
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 , when his lead performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood. After a