Spencer Tracy Had Suffered for a Secret for 25 Years-10 Cagey Facts About Spencer Tracy (Mungkin 2024)
Spencer Tracy, dengan Spencer Bonaventure Tracy penuh, (lahir 5 April 1900, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, AS — meninggal 10 Juni 1967, Beverly Hills, California), bintang film Amerika kasar yang merupakan salah satu pemeran pria terbesar di Hollywood dan yang pertama aktor untuk menerima dua Academy Awards berturut-turut untuk aktor terbaik.
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Ketika seorang pemuda Tracy bosan dengan tugas sekolah dan bergabung dengan Angkatan Laut AS pada usia 17 tahun. Terlepas dari ketidaksukaannya terhadap akademisi, ia akhirnya menjadi siswa premed di Ripon College, Wisconsin. Sementara di sana, ia mengikuti audisi untuk dan memenangkan peran dalam permainan permulaan dan menemukan akting lebih disukai daripada obat-obatan. Pada tahun 1922 ia pergi ke Kota New York, di mana ia dan temannya Pat O'Brien mendaftar di Akademi Seni Drama Amerika. Pada tahun yang sama, kedua pria itu melakukan debut bersama di Broadway, memainkan sedikit peran sebagai robot di Karel Čapek's RUR Selama delapan tahun berikutnya, Tracy memantul di antara bagian-bagian yang ditampilkan dalam drama Broadway jangka pendek dan peran utama di perusahaan saham regional, akhirnya mencapai ketenaran ketika dia berperan sebagai terpidana mati Killer Mears di Broadway 1930 yang menabrak The Last Mile. Dia kemudian muncul dalam dua mata pelajaran pendek Vitaphone,tapi dia tidak senang dengan dirinya sendiri dan pesimis tentang peluangnya untuk menjadi bintang layar.
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.
