Man in the Saddle - Randolph Scott (Mayo 2024)
Si Spencer Tracy, sa buong Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, (ipinanganak noong Abril 5, 1900, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US — namatayHune 10, 1967, Beverly Hills, California), magaspang na sinulid na American film star na isa sa pinakadakilang lalaki sa Hollywood na una at ang una ang aktor upang makatanggap ng dalawang magkakasunod na Academy Awards para sa pinakamahusay na aktor.
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Bilang isang kabataang si Tracy ay nababato sa mga gawain sa paaralan at sumali sa US Navy sa edad na 17. Sa kabila ng kanyang pag-alis sa akademya, sa kalaunan ay naging isang mag-aaral sa Ripon College sa Wisconsin. Habang doon, nag-audition siya para sa at nanalo ng isang papel sa pagsisimula ng paglalaro at natuklasan ang kumikilos na higit pa sa gusto niya kaysa sa gamot. Noong 1922 nagpunta siya sa New York City, kung saan siya at ang kanyang kaibigan na si Pat O'Brien ay nagpalista sa American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Sa parehong taon, ang parehong mga kalalakihan ay gumawa ng kanilang magkasanib na Broadway debut, na ginagampanan ang mga papel na ginagampanan bilang mga robot sa Karel Čapek's RUR Para sa susunod na walong taon, binigo ni Tracy sa pagitan ng mga itinampok na mga bahagi sa mga maikling pagpapatakbo ng Broadway at nangungunang mga tungkulin sa mga kumpanya ng stock ng rehiyon, sa wakas nakakamit ang stardom kapag siya ay inihagis bilang death-row na inmate na si Killer Mears noong 1930 na tumama sa The Last Mile. Kasunod niya ay lumitaw sa dalawang maikling paksa ng Vitaphone,ngunit hindi siya nasiyahan sa kanyang sarili at pesimistiko tungkol sa kanyang mga pagkakataon para sa screen stardom.
Nevertheless, director John Ford hired Tracy to star in the 1930 feature film Up the River, which resulted in a five-year stay at Fox Studios in Hollywood. Although few of his Fox films were memorable—excepting perhaps Me and My Gal (1932), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), and The Power and the Glory (1933)—his tenure at the studio enabled him to develop his uncanny ability to act without ever appearing to be acting. His friend Humphrey Bogart once attempted to describe the elusive Tracy technique: “[You] don’t see the mechanism working, the wheels turning. He covers up. He never overacts or is hammy. He makes you believe what he is playing.” For his part, Tracy always denied that he had come up with any sort of magic formula. Whenever he was asked the secret of great acting, he usually snapped, “Learn your lines!”
In 1935 he was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he would do some of his best work, beginning with his harrowing performance as a lynch-mob survivor in Fritz Lang’s Fury (1936). He received his first of nine Oscar nominations for San Francisco (1936) and became the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards, for his performance as the Portuguese fisherman Manuel in Captains Courageous (1937) and for his role as the priest who founded the eponymous facility in Boys Town (1938). In the course of his two decades at MGM he settled gracefully into character leads, conveying everything from paternal bemusement in Father of the Bride (1950) to grim determination in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). In later years his health was eroded by respiratory ailments and a lifelong struggle with alcoholism, but Tracy worked into the early 1960s, delivering exceptionally powerful performances in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind (1960) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).
Married since 1923 to former actress Louise Treadwell, Tracy lived apart from his wife throughout most of their marriage, though as a strict Roman Catholic he refused to consider divorce. From 1942 onward, he maintained a warm, intimate relationship with actress Katharine Hepburn. Tracy and Hepburn were also memorably teamed in nine films, including Woman of the Year (1942), Adam’s Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), Desk Set (1957), and Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), which was completed three weeks before Tracy’s death.
