Billy Crystal on Spencer Tracy's effortless talent (Mai 2024)
Spencer Tracy, în întregime Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, (născut la 5 aprilie 1900, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, SUA - a murit la 10 iunie 1967, Beverly Hills, California), o stea americană de film ascuțită, care a fost unul dintre cei mai mari bărbați de la Hollywood și primul actor va primi două premii consecutive pentru cel mai bun actor.
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În timp ce tânăr, Tracy s-a plictisit de munca școlară și s-a alăturat Marinei SUA la vârsta de 17 ani. În ciuda neplăcerii sale pentru academicieni, el a devenit în cele din urmă student premeditat la Wisconsin's Ripon College. În timp ce se afla acolo, el a audiat și a câștigat un rol în piesa de început și a descoperit că acțiunea este mai mult pe placul său decât medicamentul. În 1922 a plecat în New York, unde el și prietenul său Pat O'Brien s-au înscris la Academia Americană de Arte Dramatice. În același an, ambii bărbați și-au făcut debutul comun pe Broadway, jucând roluri de roboți ca roboți în RUR-ul lui Karel Čapek Pentru următorii opt ani, Tracy a sărit între piesele prezentate în piese de scurtă durată pe Broadway și roluri de lider în companiile de acțiuni regionale, obținând în sfârșit stardom când el a fost distribuit ca un deținut din rândul morții, Killer Mears, în 1930, pe Broadway, a lovit The Last Mile. Ulterior a apărut la două subiecte scurte Vitaphone,dar era nemulțumit de el însuși și pesimist în privința șanselor sale de stardom de ecran.
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.
