Dinner at Eight
1934
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William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He is known foremost for his portrayals between the late 1920s and 1940s of fast-talking, wisecracking news reporters, press agents, lawyers, and salesmen.
Lee Tracy. Actor: Turn Back the Clock. Rangy, red-headed and straightforward to the bone while possessing distinctively adenoidal vocal tones, this actor with a voracious appetite for high living was a fine cinematic representation of the racy and race-paced style of pre-Code Hollywood.
Lee Tracy made his best movies for Warner Brothers, starting in 1931. During his tenure with the studio, he starred in Doctor X (1932), Blessed Event (1932), and The Half Naked Truth (1932).
William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American actor. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 1964 film The Best Man. In 1929, Tracy arrived in Hollywood, where he played the role of newspapermen in several films.
A ctor Lee Tracy played dozens of breezy and hard-bitten cops, reporters and politicians on Broadway and in the movies. Tracy began his career in New York as a $35-a-week vaudeville performer,...
Birthday: Apr 14, 1898. Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dynamic actor from the Broadway stage who entered film in 1929 and parlayed his success as the antic, fast-talking...
If any one actor is emblematic of the early years of talking pictures, it's Lee Tracy. As one of the fastest mouths in the West, he helped usher in sound with a dazzling cascade of words, many of them the product of writers quickly imported from the worlds of theatre, radio and burlesque to...
After many Broadway credits through the latter half of the 1920s, Tracy made his screen debut for Fox Film in 1929. Primarily regarded as a character actor, he co-starred in the classic comedy Dinner at Eight (1934), directed by George Cukor .
Noted for his staccato, nasal delivery, Tracy played a host of commanding leads and supporting roles through the 1940s and won an Oscar nomination for his performance in the 1964 drama, 'The Best...
Lee Tracy, Actor, Is Dead at 70; Played Fast-Talking Newsmen; Starred on Broadway Stage in 'The Front Page' in '28 -- Was in 'Best Man'. Share full article. Oct. 19, 1968. The New York Times ...
