Spencer Tracy


Trivia of Spencer Tracy ( 5 April 1900-
10 June 1967)
*His father was of Irish descent and his mother was descended from the earliest English settlers in America.Later he got along with James Cagney, Frank McHugh and Pat O'Brien. Together they were known in Hollywood as the "Irish Mafia.".
*Tracy made his Broadway debut in 1922, playing a robot in R.U.R. He did not have any lines.
*When he received his award in 1938 as Best Actor for his role as Father Flannagan of Boy’s Town, he discovered it had been engraved with the wrong name. Instead of “Spencer Tracy,” the award read “Dick Tracy.”In fact, the first person to win an Oscar for playing a living person. One publicist tried to make hay of this situation by claiming that Tracy would donate his Oscar to Father Flannagan if he won.
*Didn't like to rehearse and would read through a scene only once, five days before shooting. He also never liked to shoot a scene more than once, and in most cases he didn't have to.
*Along with Laurence Olivier, he is one of only two actors to receive nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was nominated for San Francisco (1936), Captains Courageous (1937), Boys Town (1938), 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 won the award for both Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).
*Made nine films with Katharine Hepburn: Woman of the Year (1942), Keeper of the Flame (1942), Without Love (1945), The Sea of Grass (1947), State of the Union (1948), Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), Desk Set (1957) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
*Was making a cup of coffee on the morning of 6/10/1967 when he suffered a sudden heart attack. His longtime partner, Katharine Hepburn found him dead on the kitchen floor.Hepburn never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) because it was his last film and watching it with him gone was too painful for her.Tracy died only 17 days after filming of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) had been completed.

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