Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [541]
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,