SPENCER TRACY (Biografia) - Tucineclasico.es (Mayo 2024)
Spencer Tracy, en su totalidad Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, (nacido el 5 de abril de 1900, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, EE. UU., Fallecido el 10 de junio de 1967, Beverly Hills, California), estrella de cine estadounidense toscamente tajante que fue uno de los mejores protagonistas masculinos de Hollywood y el primero El actor recibirá dos Premios de la Academia consecutivos al mejor actor.
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Cuando era joven, Tracy estaba aburrido del trabajo escolar y se unió a la Marina de los EE. UU. A los 17 años. A pesar de su disgusto por lo académico, eventualmente se convirtió en un estudiante premeditado en el Ripon College de Wisconsin. Mientras estuvo allí, audicionó y ganó un papel en la obra de graduación y descubrió que actuar era más de su agrado que la medicina. En 1922 fue a la ciudad de Nueva York, donde él y su amigo Pat O'Brien se matricularon en la Academia Estadounidense de Artes Dramáticas. Ese mismo año, ambos hombres hicieron su debut conjunto en Broadway, desempeñando pequeños papeles como robots en el RUR de Karel Čapek. Durante los siguientes ocho años, Tracy saltó entre las partes destacadas en obras de Broadway de corta duración y los papeles principales en las compañías bursátiles regionales, finalmente logrando el estrellato cuando fue elegido como el preso del corredor de la muerte Killer Mears en el éxito de Broadway de 1930 The Last Mile. Posteriormente apareció en dos temas cortos de Vitaphone,pero estaba disgustado consigo mismo y pesimista sobre sus posibilidades de estrellato en la pantalla.
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.
