Spencer Tracy Articles

James Stewart remains one of the most beloved film actors in Hollywood history. Well, at least in the United States, where Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington are considered the apex of studio-era filmmaking. Stewart's shy, naive, wholesome, aw-shucksy boy-next-door (later man-next-door) manner continues to endear him to millions whose idea of shyness, naiveté, wholesomeness, and boy-next-doorishness has nothing [...]

Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood: Fade Out, Fade In is the next chapter in Turner Classic Movies' weekly documentary miniseries Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood. We're now in the 1960s, a time of radical change in the American film industry. Most of the old moguls are [...]

Spencer Tracy, Jeanette MacDonald, San Francisco Spencer Tracy is the star of the evening on Turner Classic Movies. My two major recommendations are W. S. Van Dyke's San Francisco (1936), corny to the bone but enjoyable all the same, and Up the River (1930), one of Tracy's earliest efforts, directed by John Ford and also featuring a young Humphrey Bogart. Tracy, as a tough-talking priest, [...]

Spencer Tracy as a fictionalized Clarence Darrow, Fredric March as a fictionalized William Jennings Bryan in Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind Turner Classic Movies' Fredric March tribute ends tonight with the presentation of six movies: Inherit the Wind (1960), There Goes My Heart (1938), Seven Days in May (1964), The Young Doctors (1961), The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), and Anthony Adverse (1936). Of those, [...]