1930'S SPENCER TRACY ORIGINAL PORTRAIT 5" X 7" MOVIE STAR PHOTO-RARE --U.S.A.

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MOVIE STAR
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1930'S SPENCER TRACY
METRO-GOLDWYN-MEYER PICTURE MOVIE STAR
AQUATONED IN U.S.A. CARD
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1930'S SPENCER TRACY
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Spencer Bonaventure Tracy
(April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor. He was known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of
Hollywood's Golden Age
, Tracy was the first actor to win two consecutive
Academy Awards for Best Actor
from nine nominations. During his career, he appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999, the
American Film Institute
ranked Tracy as the 9th greatest
male star
of
Classic Hollywood Cinema
.
Tracy first discovered his talent for acting while attending
Ripon College
, and he later received a scholarship for the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
. He spent seven years in the theatre, working in a succession of
stock companies
and intermittently on
Broadway
. His breakthrough came in 1930, when his
lead
performance in
The Last Mile
caught the attention of
Hollywood
. After a successful film debut in
John Ford
's
Up the River
(in which he starred with
Humphrey Bogart
), he was signed to a contract with
Fox Film Corporation
. Tracy's five years with Fox featured one acting
tour de force
after another that were usually ignored at the box office, and he remained largely unknown to movie audiences after 25 films, nearly all of them starring him as the leading man. None of them were hits, although his performance in
The Power and the Glory
(1933) was highly praised at the time.
In 1935, he joined
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
, at the time Hollywood's most prestigious studio. His career flourished from his fifth MGM film
Fury
(1936) onwards, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for
Captains Courageous
and
Boys Town
. He teamed with
Clark Gable
, the studio's most prominent leading man for three major box office successes, so that by the early 1940s Tracy was one of MGM's top stars. In 1942, he appeared with
Katharine Hepburn
in
Woman of the Year
, beginning a professional and personal partnership, which led to nine films over 25 years. In 1955, Tracy won the
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor
for his performance in the film
Bad Day at Black Rock
.
Tracy left MGM in 1955, and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite several health issues and an increasing weariness and irritability as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe
alcoholism
and guilt over his son's
deafness
. Tracy and his wife Louise became estranged in the 1930s, but the couple never divorced; his 25-year long relationship with Katharine Hepburn was an open secret. Towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director
Stanley Kramer
. It was for Kramer that he made his last film,
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(1967), completed just 17 days before he died.
The card was printed in the U.S.A.. Approx. size is 5” X 7” inches. Lithographed in U.S.A..
CONDITION: EX+ (some yellowing)
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