________________________________ SPENCER TRACY QUOTES ________________________________ Sometimes people confuse Spencer Tracy and James Whitmore. The two sometimes look as if they could have been brothers. Ranked #64 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] Born at 1:57am-CST Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Garden of Everlasting Peace, on the right just after entering. His Best Actor Oscar for Boys Town (1938) is inscribed with the name "Dick Tracy." Attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin but did not graduate Attended no fewer than six high schools: Wauwatosa (WI) High School; St. John's Cathedral School (Milwaukee); St. Mary's (near Topeka, Kansas); Rockhurst Academy (Topeka); Marquette Academy (Milwaukee); WWI service; Northwestern Military and Naval Academy (Lake Geneva, WI); and West Division High School (Milwaukee), from which he graduated in 1921. In 1956/57 when his longtime friend Humphrey Bogart was dying of cancer, Tracy and Katharine Hepburn were two of the only people who visited Bogie (and wife Lauren Bacall) at their home on an almost daily basis. They would sit together at Bogie's bedside for half an hour or so every evening in the months and weeks leading up to his death. After Bogie's death, Bacall requested that Tracy deliver the eulogy at the funeral. He apologetically declined, saying it would simply be too difficult for him. He felt he would be too emotional and wouldn't be able to do it. Bacall understood and director John Huston delivered the eulogy instead. Tracy was offered the role of The Penguin in the TV series _"Batman" (1966/II) before Burgess Meredith. He said he would only accept the role if he was allowed to kill Batman. Died only 17 days after filming of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) had been completed. Made nine films with Katharine Hepburn, the first of which was Woman of the Year (1942). He was voted the 15th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly Had two children from his marriage to Louise Treadwell: Son, John Ten Broeck Tracy (born 26 June 1924) and daughter, Louise Treadwell 'Susie' Tracy (born July 1 1932). Son John was born deaf; as a result, his wife, Louise, became an activist for deaf education, establishing the John Tracy Clinic at USC. He is often mentioned alongside Laurence Olivier and Marlon Brando as the greatest movie actor of all time. Unlike the other two, however, Tracy was not already successful and well-known as a stage actor before getting into films. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was descended from the earliest English settlers in America. Katharine Hepburn, his frequent screen partner and longtime flame, 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. He was voted the 19th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine. Named the #9 Greatest Actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends List by The American Film Institute. When he needed a break, he would often come back to Milwaukee and frequent the local watering holes. However, finding him proved to be an almost impossible challenge for Katharine Hepburn, because there are so many bars in Milwaukee. Secretly diagnosed with diabetes in the late 1940s. His performance as Henry Drummond in "Inherit the Wind" (1960) is ranked #67 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). Salary Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) $300,000 Broken Lance (1954) $165,000 + percentage of profits Up the River (1930) $1,000/week For six years Gable floated among minor theatrical jobs, then caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. There was just one problem—those ears. Milton Berle would later describe them as "the best ears of our lives," but Warner Bros, had already decided that they made young Gable unfit for the screen. M-G-M simply pinned back the Gable flappers with adhesive tape, and cast him in The Painted Desert. As Gable rose toward his coronation as The King—a ceremony actually performed in 1937 by Spencer Tracy with a cardboard crown— he shed the tape. MORE COMING SOON Read more about Spencer Tracy at the Biography page - click here ________________________________ Go back to index