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His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness. Tracy and his wife Louise became estranged in the 1930s, but the couple never divorced; his 25-year long relationship with Katharine Hepburn was an open secret.
As Bowers tells it, he slept with Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, and the Duke of Windsor—the abdicated King Edward VIII.
Actor: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Spencer Tracy was the second son born on April 5, 1900, to truck salesman John Edward and Caroline Brown Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While attending Marquette Academy, he and classmate Pat O'Brien quit school to enlist in the Navy at the start of World War I. Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard in ...
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- June 10, 1967
- April 5, 1900
Jul 12, 2019 · In 1930, Spencer Tracy jumped from the stage to the big screen. A contract with Fox studios convinced the actor to move to Hollywood—but he certainly wasn’t a star right out of the gates. He made a picture after picture, but most of his films were unpopular and his name always flew under the radar.
Get ready for a trip down memory lane as we delve into the remarkable career of one of Hollywood‘s most beloved actors – Spencer Tracy. In this cinema, movies, and actors blog, we take a look at Tracy’s impressive body of work and reflect on some of his most memorable performances.
Tracy had a brief romantic relationship with Loretta Young in the mid-1930s, and a lifelong one with Katharine Hepburn beginning in 1942 after they were first paired in Woman of the Year by director George Stevens. Tracy's strong Roman Catholic beliefs precluded his divorcing wife Louise, though they mostly lived apart.
Oct 22, 2011 · As he started out, Tracy sought work that could help him hone his craft. He spent years in stock companies because he'd been told that was the best way to learn.
