Spencer Tracy Net Worth

Spencer Tracy's Quotes

• [on acting] Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors.
• [on drinking] Hell, I used to take two-week lunch hours!
• I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.
• [on being asked why he was always billed above long-time companion Katharine Hepburn in their films together] Because this is a movie, you chowderhead, not a lifeboat!
• The kids keep telling me I should try this new "Method Acting" but I'm too old, I'm too tired and I'm too talented to care.

Interesting Facts about Spencer Tracy

1. Sometimes people confuse Spencer Tracy and James Whitmore. The two sometimes look as if they could have been brothers.
2. In October 1997 he was ranked #64 in "Empire" (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
3. Born at 1:57am-CST
4. Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA, in the Garden of Everlasting Peace, on the right just after entering.
5. His Best Actor Oscar for Boys Town (1938) is inscribed with the name "Dick Tracy."
6. Attended Ripon College in Ripon, WI, but did not graduate.
7. Attended no fewer than six high schools: Wauwatosa (WI) High School; St. John's Cathedral School (Milwaukee, WI); St. Mary's (near Topeka, KS); Rockhurst High School (Kansas City, MO) ; Marquette Academy (Milwaukee); WWI service; Northwestern Military and Naval Academy (Lake Geneva, WI); and West Division High School (Milwaukee), from which he graduated in 1921.
8. In 1956/57 when his longtime friend Humphrey Bogart was dying of cancer, Tracy and Katharine Hepburn were two of the few people who visited Bogie (and wife Lauren Bacall) at their home on an almost daily basis. They would sit together at Bogie's bedside for half an hour or so every evening in the months and weeks leading up to his death. After Bogie's death, Bacall requested that Tracy deliver the eulogy at the funeral. He apologetically declined, saying it would simply be too difficult for him. He felt he would be too emotional and wouldn't be able to do it. Bacall understood and director John Huston delivered the eulogy instead.
9. Tracy was offered the role of The Penguin in the TV series Batman (1966) before Burgess Meredith. He said he would only accept the role if he was allowed to kill Batman.
10. Died only 17 days after filming of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) had been completed.
11. Made nine films with Katharine Hepburn, the first of which was Woman of the Year (1942). The last was Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
12. He was voted the 15th Greatest Movie Star of all time by "Entertainment Weekly".
13. Had two children from his marriage to Louise Treadwell: Son, John Ten Broeck Tracy (born 26 June 1924, died 15 June 2007) and daughter, Louise Treadwell 'Susie' Tracy (born July 1 1932).
14. Son John was born deaf; as a result, his wife, Louise, became an activist for deaf education, establishing the John Tracy Clinic at USC.
15. He is often mentioned alongside Laurence Olivier and Marlon Brando as the greatest movie actor of all time. Unlike the other two, however, Tracy was not already successful and well-known as a stage actor before getting into films.
16. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was descended from the earliest English settlers in America.
17. Katharine Hepburn, his frequent screen partner and longtime flame, never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) because it was his last film and watching it with him gone was too painful for her.
18. He was voted the 19th Greatest Movie Star of all time by "Premiere Magazine".
19. Named the #9 Greatest Actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends List by The American Film Institute
20. When he needed a break he would often go back to Milwaukee and frequent the local watering holes. However, finding him proved to be an almost impossible challenge for Katharine Hepburn, because there are so many bars in Milwaukee.