"Spencer Tracy: A Biography" (Knopf), by James Curtis: There's a great story about a great actor between the covers of "Spencer Tracy: A Biography," yet it's tougher to get to than it ought to be. An ...

LOS ANGELES -- James Curtis, author of the new 1,056-page "Spencer Tracy: A Biography," says it could have been actress Loretta Young who became the love of Tracy's life, not Katharine Hepburn, his ...

To most modern movie stars, putting out 75 films in only 37 years would be quite a remarkable task. For Spencer Tracy, whose acting career lasted from 1930 to 1967, it wasn’t. In remembrance of this ...

In the 1930 comedy Up the River, two inmates break out of prison to help their former roommate avoid a life of crime. The film, which was a modest hit in its time, is largely remembered as the first ...

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy won two Academy ...

There's a great story between the covers of "Spencer Tracy: A Biography," yet it's tougher to get to than it ought to be. Author James Curtis needed to be more ruthless when it came to deciding what ...

Hollywood craziness claims the least "Hollywood%E2%80%9D of stars in this massive, eye-opening biography. Onscreen, in Boys Town to Judgment at Nuremberg, Tracy (1900 ...