Spencer Tracy
A Biography
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Publisher:
New York - Alfred A Knopf
Pages:
1001
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780307262899, 0307262898
Language:
English
Contents:
General business
A born actor
A sissy sort of thing
The best goddamned actor
Dread
The last mile
Quick millions
The power and the glory
The amount of marriage we've experienced
And does love last?
That double jackpot
The best year
Model Romeo
Enough to shine even through me
A buoyant effect on the audience
Someone's idea of reality
Woman of the year
I've found the woman I want
Not the guy they see up there on the screen
The big drunk
The rugged path
State of the union
Adam's rib
Father of the bride
Rough patch
At loose ends
A granite-like wedge of a man
The mountain
The last hurrah
Our greatest actor
The value of a single human being
Something a little less serious
A lion in a cage
A humble man
The biographies of Katharine Hepburn
Appendix I. Stage chronology
Appendix II. Film chronology
A born actor
A sissy sort of thing
The best goddamned actor
Dread
The last mile
Quick millions
The power and the glory
The amount of marriage we've experienced
And does love last?
That double jackpot
The best year
Model Romeo
Enough to shine even through me
A buoyant effect on the audience
Someone's idea of reality
Woman of the year
I've found the woman I want
Not the guy they see up there on the screen
The big drunk
The rugged path
State of the union
Adam's rib
Father of the bride
Rough patch
At loose ends
A granite-like wedge of a man
The mountain
The last hurrah
Our greatest actor
The value of a single human being
Something a little less serious
A lion in a cage
A humble man
The biographies of Katharine Hepburn
Appendix I. Stage chronology
Appendix II. Film chronology
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Statement of responsibility:
James Curtis
Physical description:
xix, 1001 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
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Add a CommentSuperb, meticulously researched autobiography on one of the greatest actors of all time. His complex and individualistic personality, compounded with his life long problem with alcohol, problematic marriage,womanizing and Catholic guilt ridden demons are all presented in fascinating detail. The piece de resistance, of course, is the meeting of his soul mate Katharine Hepburn, her refusal to be his concubine and insistence on maintaining her individuality, expressing her distaste of his numerous affairs with Hollywood actresses by distancing herself from Tracy, yet the denouement, her solicitous care of Tracy in his final years, and her love and devotion never more evident than with him at his death, incredibly moving. This book is very long, over 900 pages, but well worth reading every word. Some reviewers on amazon have called it "dry", but not at all, in my opinion. It is a magnificent and penultimate tribute to one of our greatest actors.