Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [542]
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