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THBSpencer Tracy (1900-1967) American, Framed Photos and Autograph
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
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Spencer Tracy (1900-1967) American, Framed Photos and Autograph. Photo on left is a headshot of Tracy, and the one on the right is of Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, the film where they first met and fell in love. Autograph in separated box below the right side photo. Prior gallery label on back.
Overall Size: 16 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.
Photo Size: 10 x 7 1/2 in.
#15 #5372 .
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was born on April 5th, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a difficult and hyperactive child with poor school attendance, whose strict Catholic upbringing and being placed in several Jesuit academies in his teens eventually helped him improve. At Marquette Academy he began attending plays and discovered an interest in theater, soon studying with his lifelong friend and fellow actor Pat O’Brien. They both enlisted in the Navy when they turned 18, and were still recruits-in-training at the Naval Station in Illinois when World War I ended. His honorable discharge in 1919 allowed him to go to Ripon College, where he majored in medicine. However, his attention soon returned to theater, and during a tour with the debate team he auditioned for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He was offered a scholarship and enrolled in 1922 along with O’Brien, where the two lived in virtual poverty while attending their lessons. Tracy joined the academy’s stock company and made his Broadway debut that same year in R.U.R. Immediately following his graduation in 1923 he joined a new company in White Plains, and then another in Cincinnati, but was unhappy with both. After several years and multiple poor reviews, he finally got his break when acting for George M. Cohan on Broadway in 1926, who took him under his wing. Cohan wrote several roles for Tracy over the years, but Tracy nearly quit theater altogether after the Stock Market Crash decimated the culture of New York City. In 1930 he was discovered by John Ford, who hired him to act in films for Fox Pictures. Tracy had never considered working in film, but took the jobs readily to support his family and his son, who was deaf and still recovering from polio. He only appeared on stage once more in his entire life, becoming one of Hollywood’s most bankable commodities of the late 1930s after he left Fox and began working for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His rugged good looks and charismatic sincerity on screen hid his crippling alcoholism, but finally obtaining the success which had eluded him for so long helped him enter a period of sobriety and professionalism, and led to his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 1938 for Captains Courageous. A series of commercial and critical successes pairing him with Clark Gable led them to be seen as an unbeatable team, and set the template for many future works of the “buddy flick” genre. A second Academy Award came in 1939 for Boys Town, and he was ultimately nominated for nine over his career, still the only male actor to receive the Best Actor Award consecutively besides Tom Hanks. Tracy was also nominated for five British Academy Film Awards, winning two, and four Golden Globes, winning one. After a series of affairs, including with co-stars Joan Crawford and Ingrid Bergman, he developed a lifelong relationship with Katharine Hepburn starting in 1941. He never divorced, but continued to visit with his wife and two children regularly despite living with Hepburn. MGM kept this from the public to avoid controversy, and they only lived together openly in his last few years. His lifelong use of alcohol, cigarettes, and pills took their toll, and he died on June 10th, 1967, just seventeen days after completing shooting on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. During his career he appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen’s most genuine actors, being ranked as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema by the American Film Institute in 1999.
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16 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.
