Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [544]
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.