APPENDIX II
TAXI TALKS (VITAPHONE VARIETIES)
Vitaphone Release #995–996. Producer: Murray Roth. Director: Arthur Hurley. Story: Frederick and Fannie Hatton. Photography: E. B. DuPar. Production and distribution: Vitaphone. Release date: June 1930. Running time: 14 minutes. Cast: Evelyn Knapp, Roger Pryor, Mayo Methot, Vernon Wallace, Katherine Alexander, Spencer Tracy (Joe).
THE HARD GUY (VITAPHONE VARIETIES)
Vitaphone Release #1036. Producer: Sam Sax. Director: Arthur Hurley. Story: Betty Ross. Adaptation: Burnet Hershey. Photography: E. B. DuPar. Production and distribution: Vitaphone. Release date: September 1930. Running time: 12 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Guy), Katherine Alexander, Valli Roberts, Arch Hendricks, Pat Kearney.
Note: Some sources suggest that Tracy appeared in a third Vitaphone subject. The Strong Arm was filmed in the latter half of March 1930, but there is no documentation in either the Warner Bros. Archive at USC or in Tracy’s personal papers to suggest that he was in it. He never claimed to have appeared in a third Vitaphone subject at any point in his career.
UP THE RIVER
Director: John Ford. Staged by William Collier, Sr. Story: Maurine Watkins. Music and lyrics: Joseph McCarthy, James F. Hanley. Photography: Joseph August. Editor: Frank Hull. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: October 12, 1930. Running time: 92 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (St. Louis), Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, William Collier, Sr., Joan Lawes, George MacFarlane, Gaylord Pendleton, Sharon Lynn, Noel Francis, Goodie Montgomery, Robert E. O’Connor, Robert Burns, John Swor, Joe Brown, Morgan Wallace.
Note: Existing prints of the film run eighty-four minutes.
QUICK MILLIONS
Director: Rowland Brown. Screenplay: Rowland Brown, Courtenay Terrett. Additional dialogue: John Wray. Photography: Joseph August. Editor: Harold Schuster. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: May 3, 1931. Running time: 69 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Daniel J. “Bugs” Raymond), Marguerite Churchill, John Wray, Warner Richmond, Sally Eilers, George Raft, Robert Burns, John Swor, Edgar Kennedy, Harry Myers, Dixie Lee.
SIX CYLINDER LOVE
Associate producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Director: Thornton Freeland. Based upon the play by William Anthony McGuire. Adaptation: William M. Conselman, Norman Houston. Photography: Ernest Palmer. Editor: J. Edwin Robbins. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: May 10, 1931. Running time: 71 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (William Donroy), Sidney Fox, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, El Brendel, William Collier, Sr., Lorin Raker, Bert Roach, William Holden, Ruth Warren.
GOLDIE
Associate producer: A. L. Rockett. Director: Benjamin Stoloff. Based upon the film A Girl in Every Port (story: Howard Hawks; adaptation: James K. McGuinness; scenario: Seton I. Miller; titles: Malcolm Stuart Boylan). Adaptation and dialogue: Gene Towne, Paul Perez (uncredited: Howard J. Green). Photography: Ernest Palmer. Editor: Alex Troffey. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: June 28, 1931. Running time: 59 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Bill), Warren Hymer, Jean Harlow, Jesse De Vorska, Lina Basquette, Eleanor Hunt, Maria Alba.
SHE WANTED A MILLIONAIRE
Associate producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Director: John G. Blystone. Dialogue director: William Collier, Sr. Story: Sonya Levien (uncredited: Winfield R. Sheehan). Continuity: Sonya Levien. Screenplay: William Anthony McGuire. Photography: John F. Seitz. Editor: Louis Loeffler. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: February 21, 1932. Running time: 74 minutes. Cast: Joan Bennett, Spencer Tracy (William Kelley), Una Merkel, James Kirkwood, Dorothy Peterson, Douglas Cosgrove, Donald Dillaway, Tetsu Komai, Constantine Romanoff.
SKY DEVILS
Producer: Howard Hughes. Director: Edward Sutherland. Story: Joseph Moncure March, Edward Sutherland. Dialogue: Robert Benchley, Joseph Moncure March, James Starr, Carroll and Garrett Graham. Music: Alfred Newman. Photography: Gaetano Gaudio. Editor: Douglas Biggs. Production: The Caddo Company. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: March 12, 1932. Rereleased: 1939 (Astor Pictures Corporation), 1979 (Universal). Running time: 89 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Wilkie), William Boyd, George Cooper, Ann Dvorak, Billy Bevan, Yola D’Avril, Forrester Harvey, William B. Davidson, Jerry Miley.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Director: John W. Considine, Jr. Story and dialogue: William Anthony McGuire. Continuity: Del Andrews. Photography: Ray June. Editor: Frank Hull. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: March 20, 1932. Running time: 82 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Dick Fay), Sally Eilers, El Brendel, Dickie Moore, Ralph Bellamy, Ralph Morgan, Allan Dinehart, Frank Conroy, Cornelius Keefe.
YOUNG AMERICA
Director: Frank Borzage. Based upon the play by John Frederick Ballard. (Suggested by Pearl Franklin’s “Mrs. Doray” stories.) Screenplay: William Conselman (uncredited: Maurine Watkins). Photography: George Schneiderman. Editor: Margaret Clancy. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: April 17, 1932. Running time: 70 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Jack Doray), Doris Kenyon, Ralph Bellamy, Tommy Conlon, Raymond Borzage, Beryl Mercer, Sarah Padden, Robert Homans, Dawn O’Day.
SOCIETY GIRL
Associate producer: A. L. Rockett. Director: Sidney Lanfield. Based upon the play by John Larkin, Jr., and Charles Beahan. Screenplay: Elmer Harris. Music: George Lipschultz. Photography: George Barnes. Editor: Margaret Clancy. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: May 22, 1932. Running time: 74 minutes. Cast: James Dunn, Peggy Shannon, Spencer Tracy (Doc Briscoe), Bert Hanlon, Walter Byron, Marjorie Gateson.
THE PAINTED WOMAN
Director: John G. Blystone. Based upon the play After the Rain, by Alfred C. Kennedy. Screenplay: Guy Bolton, Leon Gordon. Music: George Lipschultz. Song: “Say You’ll Be Good to Me” (music and lyrics: James F. Hanley). Photography: Ernest Palmer. Editor: Alex Troffey. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: August 21, 1932. Running time: 73 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Bill), Peggy Shannon, William Boyd, Irving Pichel, Raul Roulien, Murray Kinnell, Laska Winter, Chris-Pin Martin, Paul Porcasi, Stanley Fields, Wade Boteler, Jack Kennedy.
ME AND MY GAL
Director: Raoul Walsh. Story: Philip Klein, Barry Conner. Screenplay: Arthur Kober (uncredited: Frank J. Dolan, Philip Dunne, Charles Vidor, Al Cohn). Music: George Lipschultz. Song: “Oleo the Gigolo” (music: James F. Hanley; lyrics: Val Burton). Photography: Arthur Miller. Editor: Jack Murray. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: December 24, 1932. Running time: 79 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Danny Dolan), Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, George Walsh, J. Farrell MacDonald, Noel Madison, Henry B. Walthall, Bert Hanlon, Adrian Morris, George Chandler, Will Stanton.
FACE IN THE SKY
Associate producer: Miles Connolly. Director: Harry Lachman. Dialogue director: William Collier, Sr. Story: Miles Connolly. Screenplay: Humphrey Pearson. Music: Louis De Francesco. Song: “Parade of the Ads” (music: Val Burton, Will Jason, Arthur Lange; lyrics: Val Burton, Will Jason). Photography: Lee Garmes. Editor: Ralph Dietrich. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: January 22, 1933. Running time: 77 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Joe Buck), Marian Nixon, Stuart Erwin, Sam Hardy, Lila Lee, Sarah Padden, Russell Simpson, Frank McGlynn, Jr., Billy Platt, Guy Usher.
20,000 YEARS IN SING SING
Executive producer: Hal B. Wallis. Associate producer: Robert Lord. Director: Michael Curtiz. Based upon the book by Lewis E. Lawes. Adaptation: Courtenay Terrett, Robert Lord. Screenplay: Wilson Mizner, Brown Holmes. Music: Bernard Kaun. Photography: Barney McGill. Editor: George Amy. Production: First National. Distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: February 1, 1933. Rereleased: 1956 (Dominant Pictures). Running time: 81 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Tommy Connors), Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Warren Hymer, Louis Calhern.
SHANGHAI MADNESS
Associate producer: A. L. Rockett. Director: John G. Blystone. Based upon the story by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. Adaptation: Austin Parker, Gordon Wong Wellesley. Screenplay: Austin Parker (uncredited: Edward T. Lowe). Music: Louis De Francesco. Photography: Lee Garmes. Editor: Margaret Clancy, Alexander Troffey. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: August 4, 1933. Running time: 68 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Lieutenant Patrick Jackson), Fay Wray, Ralph Morgan, Eugene Pallette, Herbert Mundin, Reginald Mason, Arthur Hoyt, Albert Conti, Maude Eburne, William von Brincken.
THE POWER AND THE GLORY
Producer: Jesse L. Lasky. Director: William K. Howard. Screenplay: Preston Sturges. Music: Louis De Francesco. Photography: James Wong Howe. Editor: Paul Weatherwax. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: October 6, 1933. Running time: 77 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Tom Garner), Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson, Clifford Jones, Henry Kolker, Sarah Padden, Billy O’Brien, Cullen Johnston, J. Ferrell McDonald, Robert Warwick.
THE MAD GAME
Producer: Sol M. Wurtzel. Director: Irving Cummings, John G. Blystone. Story: William Conselman. Screenplay: William Conselman, Henry Johnson. Music: Samuel Kaylin. Photography: Arthur Miller. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: October 27, 1933. Running time: 78 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Edward Carson), Claire Trevor, Ralph Morgan, Howard Lally, J. Carroll Naish, John Miljan, Matt McHugh, Kathleen Burke, Mary Mason, Willard Robinson.
MAN’S CASTLE
Director: Frank Borzage. Based upon the play by Lawrence Hazard. Screenplay: Jo Swerling. Music: W. Franke Harling. Photography: Joseph August. Editor: Viola Lawrence. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: November 20, 1933. Rereleased: 1938, 1950. Running time: 75 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Bill), Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl, Dickie Moore, Helen Jerome Eddy.
THE SHOW-OFF
Producer: Lucien Hubbard. Director: Charles F. Riesner. Based upon the play by George Kelly. Screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz. Photography: James Wong Howe. Editor: William S. Gray. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: March 9, 1934. Running time: 79 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (J. Aubrey Piper), Madge Evans, Henry Wadsworth, Lois Wilson, Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick, Alan Edwards, Claude Gillingwater.
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Associate producers: William Goetz, Raymond Griffith. Director: William Wellman. Story: J. R. Bren. Screenplay: Leonard Praskins, Elmer Harris. Music: Alfred Newman. Photography: James Van Trees. Editor: Hanson Fritch. Production: 20th Century. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: March 9, 1934. Running time: 77 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Joe Graham), Jack Oakie, Constance Cummings, Morgan Conway, Arline Judge, Paul Harvey, Judith Wood, Joseph Sauers, Robert Elliot, Paul Porcasi, Charles Lane.
BOTTOMS UP
Producer: B. G. DeSylva. Director: David Butler. Dance director: Harold Hecht. Story and screenplay: B. G. DeSylva, David Butler, Sid Silvers. Music: Constantine Bakaleinikoff. Songs: “Turn on the Moon,” “I’m Throwing My Love Away,” “Little Did I Dream” (music and lyrics: Harold Adamson, Burton Lane). Song: “Waitin’ at the Gate for Katie” (music: Richard A. Whiting; lyrics: Gus Kahn). Song: “Is I in Love I Is” (music and lyrics: J. Russel Robinson). Photography: Arthur Miller. Editor: Irene Mora. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: March 30, 1934. Rereleased: 1935 (20th Century-Fox). Running time: 84 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Smoothie King), Pat Paterson, John Boles, Sid Silvers, Herbert Mundin, Harry Green, Thelma Todd, Robert Emmet O’Connor, Del Henderson.
“NOW I’LL TELL” BY MRS. ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN
Producer: Winfield Sheehan. Director: Edwin Burke. Screenplay: Edwin Burke. Music: Arthur Lange. Song: “Fooling with the Other Woman’s Man” (music and lyrics: Lew Brown, Harry Akst). Photography: Ernest Palmer. Editor: Harold Schuster. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: May 11, 1934. Rereleased: 1935 (20th Century-Fox). Running time: 87 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Murray Golden), Helen Twelvetrees, Alice Faye, Robert Gleckler, Henry O’Neill, Hobart Cavanaugh, G. P. Huntley, Jr., Shirley Temple, Ronnie Cosbey, Ray Cooke, Frank Marlowe, Clarence Wilson, Barbara Weeks, Theodore Newton, Vince Barnett, Jim Donlan.
MARIE GALANTE
Producer: Winfield Sheehan (uncredited: Julian Johnson). Director: Henry King. Based upon the novel by Jacques Deval and its English-language translation (titled That Girl) by Lawrence S. Morris. Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley (uncredited: Dudley Nichols, William Drake, Courtenay Terrett, Sonya Levien, Samuel Hoffenstein, Seton I. Miller, Henry King, Robert Low, Jack Yellen, Marcel Silver, Edmund Hartman, Seymour Stern). Music: Arthur Lange. Song: “Song of a Dreamer” (music: Ray Gorney; lyrics: Don Hartman). Song: “Un Peu Beaucoup” (music: Arthur Lange; lyrics: Marcel Silver). Song: “Shim Shammy” (music and lyrics: Stepin Fetchit). Song: “Serves Me Right for Treating Him Wrong” (music and lyrics: Maurice Sigler, Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman). Song: “It’s Home” (music: Jay Gorney; lyrics: Jack Yellen). Photography: John Seitz. Editor: Harold Schuster. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: October 26, 1934. Rereleased: 1935 (20th Century-Fox). Running time: 88 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Dr. Crawbett), Ketti Gallian, Ned Sparks, Helen Morgan, Siegfried Rumann, Leslie Fenton, Arthur Byron, Jay C. Flippen, Stepin Fetchit, Robert Loraine, Frank Darien, Tito Coral.
IT’S A SMALL WORLD
Producer: Edward Butcher. Director: Irving Cummings. Based upon the story “Highway Robbery,” by Albert Treynor. Screenplay: Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman (uncredited: Albert Treynor, F. McGrew Willis). Music: Arthur Lange. Photography: Arthur Miller. Production and distribution: Fox. Release date: April 12, 1935. Running time: 71 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Bill Shevlin), Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn, Virginia Sale, Astrid Allwyn, Irving Bacon, Charles Sellon, Nick Foran, Belle Daube, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Frank McGlynn, Jr., Bill Gillis, Ed Brady, Harold Miner.
THE MURDER MAN
Producer: Harry Rapf. Director: Tim Whelan. Story: Tim Whelan, Guy Bolton. Screenplay: Tim Whelan, John C. Higgans (uncredited: Herman J. Mankiewicz). Music: Dr. William Axt. Photography: Lester White. Editor: James E. Newcom. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: July 12, 1935. Running time: 70 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Steve Gray), Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Harvey Stephens, Robert Barrat, James Stewart, William Collier, Sr., Bobby Watson, William Demarest, John Sheehan, Lucien Littlefield, George Chandler, Fuzzy Knight, Louise Henry, Robert Warwick, Joe Irving, Ralph Bushman.
THE MURDER MAN trailer
Tracy appears in a brief exchange of dialogue with Virgina Bruce and director Tim Whelan.
DANTE’S INFERNO
Producer: Sol M. Wurtzel. Director: Harry Lachman. Screenplay: Philip Klein, Robert M. Yost (uncredited: Henry Johnson, Lou Breslow, Rose Frankin, Lester Cole). Music: Samuel Kaylin. Photography: Rudolph Maté. Editor: Al DeGaetano. Production: Fox. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release date: August 23, 1935. Running time: 88 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Jim Carter), Claire Trevor, Henry B. Walthall, Alan Dinehart, Scott Beckett, Robert Gleckler, Rita Cansino, Gary Leon, Willard Robertson, Morgan Wallace.
WHIPSAW
Producer: Harry Rapf. Director: Sam Wood. Based upon the story “The Whipsaw,” by James Edward Grant. Screenplay: Howard Emmett Rogers. Music: Dr. William Axt. Photography: James Wong Howe. Editor: Basil Wrangell. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: December 18, 1935. Running time: 80 minutes. Cast: Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy (Ross McBride), Harvey Stephens, William Harrigan, Clay Clement, Robert Gleckler, Robert Warwick, Georges Renevant, Paul Stanton, Wade Boteler, Don Rowan, John Qualen, Irene Franklin, Lillian Leighton, J. Arthur Hughes, William Ingersoll, Charles Irwin.
RIFFRAFF
Producer: Irving Thalberg. Associate producer: David Lewis. Director: J. Walter Ruben. Story: Frances Marion. Screenplay: Frances Marion, H. W. Hanemann, Anita Loos (uncredited: John Lee Mahin, George S. Kaufman, Theodore Reeves, Carey Wilson). Music: Edward Ward. Photography: Ray June. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: January 3, 1936. Running time: 89 minutes. Cast: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy (Dutch Muller), Una Merkel, Joseph Calleia, Victor Kilian, Mickey Rooney, J. Farrell MacDonald, Roger Imhof, Juanita Quigley, Paul Hurst, Vince Barnett, Dorothy Appleby, Judith Wood, Arthur Houseman, Wade Boteler, Joe Phillips, William Newell, Al Hill, Helen Funt, Lillian Harmer, Bob Perry, George Givot, Helene Costello, Rafaelo Ottiano.
FURY
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: Fritz Lang. Story: Norman Krasna. Screenplay: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang. Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 5, 1936. Running time: 90 minutes. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy (Joe Wilson), Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan, Frank Albertson, George Walcott, Arthur Stone, Morgan Wallace, George Chandler, Roger Gray, Edwin Maxwell, Howard Hickman, Jonathan Hale, Leila Bennett, Esther Dale, Helen Flint.
SAN FRANCISCO
Producers: John Emerson, Bernard H. Hyman. Director: W. S. Van Dyke II. Operatic sequences: William von Wymetal. Montage sequences: John Hoffman. Story: Robert Hopkins. Screenplay: Anita Loos (uncredited: Herman J. Mankiewicz). Music: Edward Ward. Song: “San Francisco” (music and lyrics: Gus Kahn, Bronislau Kaper, Walter Jurmann). Song: “Would You” (music and lyrics: Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed). Photography: Oliver T. Marsh. Editor: Tom Held. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 26, 1936. Rereleased: 1938, 1948, 1955 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 115 minutes. Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy (Father Tim Mullen), Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph, Ted Healy, Shirley Ross, Margaret Irving, Harold Huber, Edgar Kennedy, Al Shean, William Ricciardi, Kenneth Harlan, Roger Imhof, Charles Judells, Russell Simpson, Bert Roach, Warren Hymer.
LIBELED LADY
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Jack Conway. Story: Wallace Sullivan. Screenplay: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer. Music: Dr. William Axt. Song: “You” (music: Walter Donaldson; lyrics: Harold Adamson). Photography: Norbert Brodine. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: October 9, 1936. Running time: 98 minutes. Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy (William Haggerty), Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, Cora Witherspoon, E. E. Clive, Lauri Beatty, Otto Yamaoka, Charles Trowbridge, Spencer Charters, George Chandler, William Benedict, Hal K. Dawson, William Newell.
YE MERRY GENTLEMEN
Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: Christmas season, 1936. Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, William Powell.
THEY GAVE HIM A GUN
Producer: Harry Rapf. Director: W. S. Van Dyke II. Based upon the novel by William Joyce Cowen. Screenplay: Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Maurice Rapf. Song: “A Love Song of Long Ago” (music: Sigmund Romberg; lyrics: Gus Kahn). Montage effects: Slavko Vorkapich. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Ben Lewis. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 7, 1937. Running time: 97 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Fred Willis), Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Edgar Dearing, Mary Lou Treen, Cliff Edwards, Charles Trowbridge.
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
Producer: Louis D. Lighton. Director: Victor Fleming (uncredited: Jack Conway). Based upon the novel by Rudyard Kipling. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every (uncredited: Harvey Gates, Tom Kilpatrick). Music: Franz Waxman. Songs: “Ooh, What a Terrible Man,” “Don’t Cry Little Fish” (music: Franz Waxman; lyrics: Gus Kahn). Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Elmo Veron. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 25, 1937. Rereleased: 1946, 1962, 1973 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 118 minutes. Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy (Manuel), Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charley Grapewin, Mickey Rooney, John Carradine, Oscar O’Shea, Jack LaRue, Walter Kingsford, Donald Briggs, Sam McDaniels, Billy Burrud.
BIG CITY
Producer: Norman Krasna. Director: Frank Borzage (uncredited: George B. Seitz). Story: Norman Krasna. Screenplay: Dore Schary, Hugo Butler (uncredited: Horace McCoy). Music: Dr. William Axt. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg (uncredited: Clyde De Vinna). Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 3, 1937. Running time: 80 minutes. Cast: Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy (Joe Benton), Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher, Eddie Quillan, Victor Varconi, Oscar O’Shea, Helen Troy, William Demarest, John Arledge, Irving Bacon, Guinn Williams, Regis Toomey, Edgar Dearing, Paul Harvey, Andrew J. Tombes, Clem Bevans, Grace Ford, Alice White. As themselves: Jack Dempsey, James J. Jeffries, Jimmy McLarnin, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jim Thorpe, Frank Wykoff, Jackie Fields, Man Mountain Dean, Gus Sonnenberg, George Godfrey, Joe Rivers, Cotton Warburton, Bull Montana, Snowy Baker, Taski Hagio.
MANNEQUIN
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: Frank Borzage. Story: Katharine Brush. Screenplay: Lawrence Hazard. Music: Edward Ward. Song: “Always and Always” (music: Edward Ward; lyrics: Bob Wright, Chet Forrest). Photography: George Folsey. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: January 21, 1938. Running time: 95 minutes. Cast: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy (John L. Hennessey), Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan, Mary Phillips, Oscar O’Shea, Elizabeth Risdon, Leo Gorcey.
HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT
Tracy is caricatured in this one-reel Merrie Melodie, produced in color by Leon Schlesinger and released by the Vitaphone Corporation on April 2, 1938.
TEST PILOT
Producer: Louis D. Lighton. Director: Victor Fleming. Story: Frank Wead. Screenplay: Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young. Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Ray June. Editor: Tom Held. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 22, 1938. Running time: 120 minutes. Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy (Gunner), Lionel Barrymore, Samuel S. Hinds, Marjorie Main, Ted Pearson, Gloria Holden, Louis Jean Heydt, Virginia Grey, Priscilla Lawson, Claudia Coleman, Arthur Aylesworth.
ANOTHER ROMANCE OF CELLULOID
Producer: Frank Whitbeck. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 1938. Running time: 10 minutes. Cast: Norma Shearer, W. S. Van Dyke, Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Clark Gable.
Note: Tracy is seen with Gable and Loy on the M-G-M lot.
HOLLYWOOD GOES TO TOWN (M-G-M MINIATURE)
Director: Herman Hoffman. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: August 1938. Running time: 9 minutes.
Note: Tracy is one of the many stars seen arriving for the premiere of M-G-M’s Marie Antoinette at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.
BOYS TOWN
Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Associate producer: O. O. Dull. Director: Norman Taurog. Story: Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin. Screenplay: John Meehan, Dore Schary (uncredited: Jack Mintz). Music: Edward Ward. Photography: Sidney Wagner. Editor: Elmo Veron. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 9, 1938. Rereleased: 1957 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running Time: 93 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Father Edward Flanagan), Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris, Addison Richards, Minor Watson, Jonathan Hale, Bobs Watson, Martin Spellman, Mickey Rentschler, Frankie Thomas, Jimmy Butler, Sidney Miller, Robert Emmett Keane, Victor Kilian, Boys Town A Cappella Choir.
MOTHER GOOSE GOES HOLLYWOOD
Tracy is caricatured in this one-reel Silly Symphony, produced in color by Walt Disney and released by RKO-Radio Pictures on December 23, 1938.
FOR AULD LANG SYNE NO. 4
Will Rogers National Theatre Week, Major L. E. Thompson, Chairman. Production: 20th Century-Fox. Distribution: all major exchanges. Release date: April 29, 1939. Running time: 10 minutes. Cast: Raymond Massey, Spencer Tracy, Deanna Durbin, Robert Emmet Sherwood, Lowell Thomas.
Note: Tracy participates in this fourth annual appeal for the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in Saranac Lake, New York.
HOLLYWOOD HOBBIES
Producer: Louis Lewyn. Director: George Sidney. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 3, 1939. Running time: 10 minutes. Cast: Joyce Compton, Sally Payne, William Benedict.
Note: Tracy is briefly glimpsed as one of the many stars attending a celebrity baseball game at Gilmore Field in Los Angeles.
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTON
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Associate producer: Kenneth Macgowan. Director: Henry King. (Safari episodes: Otto Brower.) Dialogue director: Lionel Bevans. Story: Hal Long, Sam Hellman. Screenplay: Philip Dunne, Julian Josephson. Music: Louis Silvers. Photography: George Barnes (Safari episodes: Sidney Wagner). Editor: Barbara McLean. Production and distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release date: August 18, 1939. Rereleased: 1947 (20th Century-Fox). Running time: 101 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Henry M. Stanley), Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Miles Mander, David Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Montague Shaw, Brandon Hurst, Hassan Said, Paul Harvey, Russell Hicks, Frank Dae.
AFRICA SQUEAKS
Tracy is caricatured in this one-reel Looney Tune, produced by Leon Schlesinger and released by the Vitaphone Corporation on January 27, 1940.
I TAKE THIS WOMAN
Producers: Lawrence Weingarten, Bernard H. Hyman. Director: W. S. Van Dyke II (uncredited: Josef von Sternberg, Frank Borzage). Story: Charles MacArthur. Screenplay: James Kevin McGuinness (uncredited: John Meehan, John McClain). Music: Bronislau Kaper, Arthur Guttmann. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: George Boemler. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 2, 1940. Running time: 97 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Dr. Karl Decker), Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Jack Carson, Paul Cavanagh, Louis Calhern, Frances Drake, Marjorie Main, George E. Stone, Willie Best, Don Castle, Dalies Frantz, Reed Hadley.
NORTHWARD, HO! (M-G-M MINIATURE)
Director: Harry Loud. Screenplay: Herman Hoffman. Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof. Photography: Jackson Rose. Editor: Roy Brickner. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 23, 1940. Running Time: 10 minutes.
Note: Tracy is seen in this promotional short about how the studio prepares to send a company on location, in this case for Northwest Passage.
NORTHWEST PASSAGE (BOOK I—ROGERS’ RANGERS)
Producer: Hunt Stromberg. Director: King Vidor (uncredited: Norman Foster, Jack Conway). Based upon the novel by Kenneth Roberts. Screenplay: Laurence Stallings, Talbot Jennings. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Sidney Wagner, William V. Skall (Technicolor). Editor: Conrad A. Nervig. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 23, 1940. Rereleased: 1956 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 125 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Major Robert Rogers), Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Louis Hector, Robert Barrat, Lumsden Hare, Donald McBride, Isabel Jewell, Douglas Walton, Addison Richards, Hugh Sothern, Regis Toomey, Montagu Love, Lester Matthews, Truman Bradley.
EDISON, THE MAN
Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Associate producer: Orville O. Dull. Director: Clarence Brown. Story: Dore Schary, Hugo Butler. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings, Bradbury Foote. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 10, 1940. Running time: 111 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Thomas A. Edison), Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers, Felix Bressart, Peter Godfrey, Guy D’Ennery, Byron Foulger, Milton Parsons, Arthur Aylesworth, Gene Reynolds, Addison Richards, Grant Mitchell, Paul Hurst, George Lessey, Jay Ward, Ann Gillis.
Note: Tracy is seen in a promotional announcement for this film at the end of Young Tom Edison (1940).
BOOM TOWN
Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: Jack Conway. Montage sequences: John Hoffman. Based upon the story “A Lady Comes to Burkburnett,” by James Edward Grant. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin (uncredited: Lawrence Hazard). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Blanche Sewell. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: August 30, 1940. Rereleased: 1946, 1956 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 117 minutes. Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy (Square John Sand), Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Chill Wills, Marion Martin, Minna Gombell, Joe Yule, Horace Murphy, Roy Gordon, Richard Lane, Casey Johnson, Baby Quintanilla, George Lessey, Sara Haden, Frank Orth, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Curt Bois.
MEN OF BOYS TOWN
Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Director: Norman Taurog. Screenplay: James K. McGuinness. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 11, 1941. Running time: 106 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Father Edward Flanagan), Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, Larry Nunn, Darryl Hickman, Henry O’Neill, Mary Nash, Lee J. Cobb, Sidney Miller, Addison Richards, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Emmett Keane, Arthur Hohl, Ben Weldon, Anne Revere.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Producer: Victor Saville. Director: Victor Fleming. Montage sequences: Peter Ballbusch. Based upon the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin (uncredited: John L. Balderston, Paul Osborn). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Editor: Harold F. Kress. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 5, 1941. Rereleased: 1954 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 127 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde), Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Peter Godfrey, Sara Allgood, Frederic Worlock, William Tannen, Frances Robinson, Denis Green, Billy Bevan, Forrester Harvey, Lumsden Hare, Lawrence Grant, John Barclay.
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: George Stevens. Screenplay: Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin (uncredited: Garson Kanin, John Lee Mahin). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 13, 1942. Running time: 112 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Sam Craig), Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson, William Bendix, Gladys Blake, Dan Tobin, Roscoe Karns, William Tannen, Ludwig Stossel, Sara Haden, Edith Evanson, George Kezas.
RING OF STEEL
Producer: Philip Martin, Jr. Director: Garson Kanin. Screenplay: Wallace Russell. Music: Morton Gould. Photography: Carl Pryer, Louis Tumola, Ray Foster. Editor: Robert Jahns. Narration: Spencer Tracy. Production: Office for Emergency Management, Film Unit. Distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: April 2, 1942. Running time: 9 minutes.
TORTILLA FLAT
Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: Victor Fleming. Based upon the novel by John Steinbeck. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Benjamin Glazer (uncredited: Paul Osborn). Music: Franz Waxman. Lyrics: Frank Loesser. Photography: Karl Freund. Editor: James E. Newcom. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 22, 1942. Running time: 105 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Pilon), Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, Sheldon Leonard, John Qualen, Donald Meek, Connie Gilchrist, Allen Jenkins, Henry O’Neill, Mercedes Ruffino, Nina Campana, Arthur Space, Betty Wells, Harry Burns.
KEEPER OF THE FLAME
Producer: Victor Saville. Associate producer: Leon Gordon. Director: George Cukor. Based upon the novel by I.A.R. Wylie. Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart (uncredited: Leon Gordon). Music: Bronislau Kaper. Photography: William Daniels. Editor: James E. Newcom. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 5, 1943. Running time: 100 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Steven O’Malley), Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Frank Craven, Horace McNally, Percy Kilbride, Audrey Christie, Darryl Hickman, Donald Meek, Howard Da Silva, William Newell.
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Release date: 1943. Cast: Spencer Tracy.
A GUY NAMED JOE
Producer: Everett Riskin. Director: Victor Fleming. Story: Chandler Sprague, David Boehm. Adaptation: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. Music: Herbert Stothart. Song: “I’ll Get By”(music: Fred E. Ahlert; lyrics: Roy Turk). Song: “I’ll See You in My Dreams” (music: Isham Jones; lyrics: Gus Kahn). Photography: George Folsey, Karl Freund. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: March 10, 1944. Rereleased: 1955 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 121 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Pete Sandidge), Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore, Barry Nelson, Esther Williams, Henry O’Neill, Don DeFore, Charles Smith, Addison Richards.
THE SEVENTH CROSS
Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Fred Zinnemann. Based upon the novel by Anna Seghers (as translated by James A. Galston). Screenplay: Helen Deutsch. Music: Roy Webb. Photography: Karl Freund. Editor: Thomas Richards. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 1, 1944. Running time: 113 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (George Heisler), Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead, Herbert Rudley, Felix Bressart, Ray Collins, Alexander Granach, Katherine Locke, George Macready, Paul Guilfoyle, Steven Geray, Kurt Hatch, Kaaren Verne, Konstantin Shayne, George Suzanne, John Wengraf, George Zucco, Steven Muller, Eily Malyon.
HIS NEW WORLD
Director: Frank Whitbeck. Narration: Spencer Tracy. Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Distribution: War Activities Committee—Motion Picture Industry. Release date: none determined. Running time: 10 minutes.
Note: Tracy narrated this short film designed to promote interest in the Army and Navy Air Corps Enlisted Reserves. The Dialogue Cutting Continuity in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer script collection at USC is dated September 14, 1944, but no record of release can be found.
TOMORROW, JOHN JONES!
Producer: Jerry Bresler. Director: Harry Beaumont. Screenplay: Carey Wilson. Music: Max Terr, Nathaniel Shilkret. Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (for the Canadian Motion Picture War Services Committee). Release date: October 23, 1944. Running time: 15 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Sergeant Major John Jones), Phyllis Thaxter, Fay Holden, Hank Daniels.
Note: Tomorrow, John Jones! was the official Seventh Victory Loan film for Canada.
THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO
Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Based upon the book by Captain Ted W. Lawson and Robert Considine. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. Music: Herbert Stothart. Song: “I Love You” (music and lyrics: Art and Kay Fitch, Bert Lowe). Song: “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (music: Don Swander; lyrics: June Hershey). Photography: Harold Rosson, Robert Surtees. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: December 5, 1944. Rereleased: 1955 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 138 minutes. Cast: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Don DeFore, Gordon McDonald, Phyllis Thaxter, Horace McNally, John R. Reilly, Robert Mitchum, Scott McKay, Donald Curtis, Louis Jean Heydt, William “Bill” Phillips, Douglas Cowan, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Bill Williams, Robert Bice, Dr. Hsin Kung, Benson Fong, Ching Wah Lee, Alan Napier, Ann Shoemaker, Dorothy Ruth Morris, Jacqueline White, Selena Royle, Spencer Tracy (Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle).
WITHOUT LOVE
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Harold S. Bucquet. Based upon the play by Philip Barry. Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart (uncredited: Samson Raphaelson, Dorothy Kingsley). Music: Bronislau Kaper. Photography: Karl Freund. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 4, 1945. Running time: 111 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Pat Jamieson), Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond, Patricia Morison, Felix Bressart, Emily Massey, Gloria Grahame, George Davis, George Chandler, Clancy Cooper.
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Tracy plays an extended scene with actress Margaret O’Brien. Release date: September 1945.
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Release date: April 21, 1946. Cast: Spencer Tracy.
THE SEA OF GRASS
Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Elia Kazan. Based upon the novel by Conrad Richter. Screenplay: Marguerite Roberts, Vincent Lawrence (uncredited: E. E. Paramore, Jr.). Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Harry Stradling. Editor: Robert J. Kern. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 25, 1947. Running time: 122 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Colonel Jim Brewton), Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter, Edgar Buchanan, Harry Carey, Ruth Nelson, William “Bill” Philips, Robert Armstrong, James Bell, Robert Barrat, Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, Trevor Bardette, Morris Ankrum.
CASS TIMBERLANE
Producer: Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Director: George Sidney. Based upon the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Adaptation: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sonya Levien. Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart. Music: Roy Webb. Photography: Robert Planck. Editor: John Dunning. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: January 9, 1948. Running time: 119 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Cass Timberlane), Lana Turner, Zachary Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Astor, Albert Dekker, Margaret Lindsay, Rose Hobart, John Litel, Mona Barrie, Josephine Hutchinson, Selena Royle, Frank Wilcox, Richard Gaines, John Alexander, Cameron Mitchell, Howard Freeman, Jessie Grayson, Griff Barnett, Pat Clark.
LISTENING EYES
Director: Larry Lansburgh. Photography: Hal Albert, John Norwood (Ansco Color). Production: USC School of Cinema, Walt Disney Productions. Distribution: John Tracy Clinic. First public showing: January 19, 1948. Running time: 18 minutes. Cast: Louise Tracy, Alathena Smith. Narrator: Spencer Tracy.
STATE OF THE UNION
Producer-director: Frank Capra. Associate producer: Anthony Veiller. Based upon the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly (uncredited: Frank Capra). Music: Victor Young. Photography: George J. Folsey. Editor: William Hornbeck. Production: Liberty Films. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 30, 1948. Running time: 124 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Grant Matthews), Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou, Lewis Stone, Howard Smith, Charles Dingle, Maidel Turner, Raymond Walburn, Margaret Hamilton, Art Baker, Pierre Watkin, Florence Auer, Irving Bacon, Charles Lane, Patti Brady, George Nokes, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, Tom Fadden, Tom Pedi.
EDWARD, MY SON
Producer: Edwin H. Knopf. Director: George Cukor. Based upon the play by Robert Morley and Noel Langley. Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart (uncredited: Luther Davis). Music: John Woodridge. Photography: F. A. Young. Editor: Raymond Poulton. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 10, 1949. Running time: 117 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Arnold Boult), Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, James Donald, Mervyn Johns, Leureen MacGrath, Felix Aylmer, Walter Fitzgerald, Tilsa Page, Ernest Jay, Colin Gordon, Harriette Johns, Julian d’Albie, Clement McCallin.
ADAM’S RIB
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin. Music: Miklos Rozsa. Song: “Farewell, Amanda” (music and lyrics: Cole Porter). Photography: George Folsey. Editor: George Boemler. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: November 18, 1949. Running time: 101 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Adam Bonner), Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, Hope Emerson, Eve March, Clarence Kolb, Emerson Treacy, Polly Moran, Will Wright, Elizabeth Flournoy.
MALAYA
Producer: Edwin H. Knopf. Director: Richard Thorpe. Story: Manchester Boddy. Screenplay: Frank Fenton. Music: Bronislau Kaper. Photography: George Folsey. Editor: Ben Lewis. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: January 6, 1950. Running time: 95 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Carnahan), James Stewart, Valentina Cortesa, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, Lionel Barrymore, Gilbert Roland, Roland Winters, Richard Loo, Ian MacDonald, Tom Helmore.
FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Based upon the novel by Edward Streeter. Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett. Music: Adolph Deutsch. Photography: John Alton. Editor: Ferris Webster. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 16, 1950. Rereleased: 1962 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 93 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Stanley T. Banks), Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, Moroni Olsen, Melville Cooper, Taylor Holmes, Paul Harvey, Frank Orth, Rusty Tamblyn, Tom Irish, Marietta Canty.
FOR DEFENSE, FOR FREEDOM, FOR HUMANITY
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: March 1951. Running time: 3 minutes. Tracy urges the audience to support the annual Red Cross Drive.
FATHER’S LITTLE DIVIDEND
Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Based upon characters created by Edward Streeter. Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett. Music: Albert Sendrey. Photography: John Alton. Editor: Ferris Webster. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 4, 1951. Running time: 82 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Stanley T. Banks), Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, Richard Rober, Marietta Canty, Rusty Tamblyn, Tom Irish, Hayden Roarke, Paul Harvey.
THE PEOPLE AGAINST O’HARA
Producer: William H. Wright. Director: John Sturges. Based upon the novel by Eleazar Lipsky. Screenplay: John Monks, Jr. Music: Carmen Dragon. Photography: John Alton. Editor: Gene Ruggiero. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 7, 1951. Running time: 102 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (James F. Curtayne), Pat O’Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Eduardo Ciannelli, James Arness, Yvette Duguay, Jay C. Flippen, William Campell, Richard Anderson, Henry O’Neill, Arthur Shields, Louise Lorimer, Ann Doran, Emile Meyer, Regis Toomey, Katharine Warren.
PAT AND MIKE
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin. Music: David Raksin. Photography: William Daniels. Editor: George Boemler. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 13, 1952. Running time: 95 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Mike Conovan), Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching, Sammy White, George Mathews, Loring Smith, Phyllis Povah, Charles Buchinski, Frank Richards, Jim Backus, Chuck Connors, Joseph E. Bernard, Owen McGiveney, Lou Lubin, Carl Switzer, William Self. As themselves: Gussie Moran, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Don Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker, Betty Hicks, Beverly Hanson, Helen Dettweiler.
PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE
Producer: Dore Schary. Director: Clarence Brown. Based upon the novel by Ernest Gabler. Screenplay: Helen Deutsch. Music: Miklos Rozsa. Photography: William Daniels (Technicolor). Editor: Robert J. Kern. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: November 28, 1952. Running time: 105 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Captain Jones), Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn, Lloyd Bridges, Dawn Addams, Barry Jones, Noel Drayton, John Dehner, Tommy Ivo, Lowell Gilmore.
THE ACTRESS
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: George Cukor. Based upon the play Years Ago by Ruth Gordon. Screenplay: Ruth Gordon. Music: Bronislau Kaper. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: George Boemler. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 25, 1953. Running time: 90 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Clinton Jones), Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright, Anthony Perkins, Ian Wolfe, Kay Williams, Mary Wickes, Norma Jean Nilsson, Dawn Bender.
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Director: Harry Loud. Narration: Spencer Tracy. Release date: 1953.
A VISIT WITH SPENCER TRACY
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (for the Variety Clubs of New England in association with the Boston Red Sox). Release date: 1954. Running time: 3 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy.
Tracy urges support of the “Jimmy Fund,” established in Boston for the research of childhood cancers and the care of children with cancer.
BROKEN LANCE
Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Story: Philip Yordan. Screenplay: Richard Murphy. Music: Leigh Harline. Photography: Joseph MacDonald (CinemaScope, DeLuxe Color). Editor: Dorothy Spencer. Production and distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release date: July 29, 1954. Running time: 96 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Matt Devereaux), Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado, Hugh O’Brian, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman, E. G. Marshall, Carl Benton Reid, Philip Ober, Robert Burton.
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
Producer: Dore Schary. Associate producer: Herman Hoffman. Director: John Sturges. Based upon the story “Bad Time at Honda,” by Howard Breslin. Adaptation: Don McGuire. Screenplay: Millard Kaufman. Music: André Previn. Photography: William C. Mellor (CinemaScope, Eastman Color). Editor: Newell P. Kimlin. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: January 7, 1955. Rereleased: 1962 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running Time: 81 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (John J. Macreedy), Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande.
THE MOUNTAIN
Producer-director: Edward Dmytryk. Based upon the novel La neige en deuil, by Henri Troyat (English translation by Constantine Fitzgibbon). Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall. Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof. Photography: Franz F. Planer (VistaVision, Technicolor). Editor: Frank Bracht. Production and distribution: Paramount. Release date: September 19, 1956. Running time: 104 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Zachary Teller), Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, Barbara Darrow, Richard Arlen, E. G. Marshall, Anna Kashfi, Richard Garrick, Harry Townes, Stacy Harris, Yves Brainville.
DESK SET
Producer: Henry Ephron. Director: Walter Lang. Based upon the play by William Marchant. Screenplay: Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron. Music: Cyril J. Mockridge. Photography: Leon Shamroy (CinemaScope, De Luxe Color). Editor: Robert Simpson. Production and distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release date: May 15, 1957. Running time: 102 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Richard Sumner), Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, Neva Patterson, Harry Ellerbe, Nicholas Joy, Diane Jergens, Merry Anders, Ida Moore, Rachel Stephens.
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Producer: Leland Hayward. Director: John Sturges (uncredited: Fred Zinnemann). Based upon the novella by Ernest Hemingway. Screenplay: Peter Viertel (uncredited: Ernest Hemingway, Paul Osborn). Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Photography: James Wong Howe. Additional photography: Floyd Crosby, Tom Tutwiler. Underwater photography: Lamar Boren (WarnerColor). Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: October 11, 1958. Rereleased: 1961 (Warner Bros.). Running time: 86 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (The Old Man), Felipe Pazos, Jr., Harry Bellaver.
THE LAST HURRAH
Producer-director: John Ford. Based upon the novel by Edwin O’Connor. Screenplay: Frank Nugent. Photography: Charles Lawton, Jr. Editor: Jack Murray. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: October 22, 1958. Running time: 122 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Frank Skeffington), Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O’Brien, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, James Gleason, Edward Brophy, John Carradine, Willis Bouchey, Basil Ruysdael, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Ford, Frank McHugh, Carleton Young, Frank Albertson, Bob Sweeney, William Leslie, Anna Lee, Ken Curtis, Jane Darwell, O. Z. Whitehead, Arthur Walsh.
INHERIT THE WIND
Producer-director: Stanley Kramer. Based upon the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Screenplay: Nathan E. Douglas [Nedrick Young], Harold Jacob Smith. Production design: Rudolph Sternad. Music: Ernest Gold. Songs: “(Give Me That) Old Time Religion,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Vocals: Leslie Uggams. Photography: Ernest Laszlo. Editor: Frederick Knudtson. Production: Lomitas Productions, Inc. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: October 1, 1960. Running time: 126 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Henry Drummond), Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Elliott Reid, Philip Coolidge, Claude Akins, Paul Hartman, Jimmy Boyd, Noah Beery, Jr., Gordon Polk, Ray Teal, Norman Fell, Hope Summers, Renee Godfrey.
THE DEVIL AT 4 O’CLOCK
Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Based upon the novel by Max Catto. Screenplay: Liam O’Brian. Music: George Duning. Photography: Joseph Biroc (Eastman Color). Editor: Charles Nelson. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: October 18, 1961. Running Time: 127 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Father Matthew Doonan), Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gregoire Aslan, Alexander Scourby, Barbara Luna, Cathy Lewis, Bernie Hamilton, Martin Brandt, Lou Merrill, Marcel Dalio, Tom Middleton, Ann Duggan, Louis Mercier, Michele Montau.
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Producer-director: Stanley Kramer. Associate producer: Philip Langner. Based upon the teleplay by Abby Mann. Screenplay: Abby Mann. Production design: Rudolph Sternad. Music: Ernest Gold. Song: “Lili Marleen” (music: Norbert Schultze; lyrics: Hans Leip). Song: “Liebeslied” (music: Ernest Gold; lyrics: Alfred Perry). Photography: Ernest Laszlo. Editor: Frederick Knudtson. Production: Roxlom Films, Inc. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: December 19, 1961 (roadshow); May 19, 1962 (general). Running time: 189 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Judge Dan Haywood), Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner, Werner Klemperer, Kenneth MacKenna, Torben Meyer, Joseph Bernard, Alan Baxter, Ed Binns, Virginia Christine, Otto Waldis, Karl Swenson, Martin Brandt, Ray Teal, John Wengraf, Ben Wright, Howard Caine, Olga Fabian, Paul Busch, Bernard Kates.
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Producer: Bernard Smith. Directors: John Ford, George Marshall, Henry Hathaway. Screenplay: James R. Webb. Music: Alfred Newman, Ken Darby. Photography: William Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr., Joseph LaShelle (Cinerama, Metrocolor). Editor: Harold Kress. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: November 1, 1962 (European premiere); February 20, 1963 (U.S. premiere). General release: 1964 (35mm). Rereleased: 1969 (70mm). Running time: 155 minutes. Cast: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Brigid Baalen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn. Narrator: Spencer Tracy.
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
Producer-director: Stanley Kramer. Screenplay: William Rose, Tania Rose. Production design: Rudolph Sternad. Music: Ernest Gold. Songs: “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “Thirty-One Flavors,” “You Satisfy My Soul” (music and lyrics: Ernest Gold, Mack David). Photography: Ernest Laszlo (Ultra Panavision, Technicolor). Editors: Frederick Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr. Production: Casey Productions, Inc. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: November 7, 1963 (roadshow), July 25, 1964 (general). Rereleased: 1970 (United Artists). Running Time: 190 minutes (roadshow), 161 minutes (general). Cast: Spencer Tracy (Captain C. G. Culpepper), Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Jim Backus, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Alan Carney, Chick Chandler, Barrie Chase, Lloyd Corrigan, William Demarest, Selma Diamond, Peter Falk, Andy Devine, Norman Fell, Paul Ford, Stan Freeberg, Louise Glenn, Leo Gorcey, Sterling Holloway, Marvin Kaplan, Edward Everett Horton, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Charles Lane, Mike Mazurki, Charles McGraw, Cliff Norton, Zasu Pitts, Carl Reiner, Madlyn Rhue, Roy Roberts, Arnold Stang, Nick Stewart, The Three Stooges, Sammee Tong, Jesse White, Jimmy Durante.
Note: While It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was shot in Ultra Panavision, a 65mm anamorphic process, it was initially exhibited under the trade name Cinerama, a 35mm three-camera process. The film was not originally conceived as a Cinerama production but was rather embraced by Cinerama, which had been working to develop a single-lens, single-projector system for more than a year. A two-picture deal between Cinerama and United Artists (for Mad World and The Greatest Story Ever Told) was concluded in August 1962. In exchange for the promotional use of the Cinerama logo (and the cachet of opening the film in Cinerama venues with specially adjusted prints), UA paid Cinerama a licensing fee of $50,000.
THE RIPON COLLEGE STORY
Technical Advisers: Leonard W. Vaughn, Richard Kubik. Production: Rick Spalla Video Productions (16mm color). Distribution: Ripon College. Release date: 1965. Running time: 30 minutes. Cast: Jack Ankerson, Margaret Kuney. Narrators: Spencer Tracy, John Willis.
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
Producer-director: Stanley Kramer. Associate producer: George Glass. Screenplay: William Rose. Production design: Robert Clatworthy. Music: Frank De Vol. Song: “Glory of Love” (music and lyrics: Billy Hill). Photography: Sam Leavitt (Technicolor). Editor: Robert C. Jones. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: December 11, 1967. Rereleased: 1972 (Columbia). Running time: 108 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Matt Drayton), Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards, Roy E. Glenn, Sr., Isabel Sanford, Virginia Christine, Alexandra Hay, Barbara Randolph, D’Urville Martin, Tom Heaton, Grace Gaynor, Skip Martin, John Hudkins.