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Spencer Tracy, in pieno Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, (nato il 5 aprile 1900, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Stati Uniti, morì il 10 giugno 1967, Beverly Hills, California), una stella del cinema americano che era uno dei più grandi protagonisti maschili di Hollywood e il primo l'attore riceverà due Oscar consecutivi per il miglior attore.
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Da giovane Tracy era annoiato dai compiti scolastici e si unì alla Marina degli Stati Uniti all'età di 17 anni. Nonostante il suo disgusto per gli accademici, alla fine divenne uno studente premiato al Ripon College del Wisconsin. Mentre era lì, ha fatto l'audizione e ha vinto un ruolo nella commedia teatrale e ha scoperto che recitare era più di suo gradimento che di medicina. Nel 1922 andò a New York City, dove lui e il suo amico Pat O'Brien si iscrissero all'American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Nello stesso anno, entrambi gli uomini fecero il loro debutto congiunto a Broadway, interpretando piccoli ruoli come robot nel RUR di Karel Čapek. Per i successivi otto anni, Tracy rimbalzò tra parti in primo piano in spettacoli di breve durata a Broadway e ruoli principali in società per azioni regionali, raggiungendo infine la celebrità quando è stato scelto come detenuto nel braccio della morte Killer Mears nel film di Broadway del 1930 The Last Mile. Successivamente è apparso in due soggetti corti di Vitaphone,ma era scontento di se stesso e pessimista delle sue possibilità di celebrità dello schermo.
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.
