Although the project had an excellent pedigree with stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, the film was not a success, and Capra's eyebrow-raising statement, " I think State of the Union was my most perfect film in handling people and ideas " has few adherents today.

Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Lang joined the MGM studio and directed the crime drama Fury, starring Spencer Tracy as a man wrongly accused of a crime and then attacked by lynch mob who burn down the jail where he is awaiting trial and it is assumed they killed him in the flames, but did not.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

Spencer Tracy was a serious Broadway actor whom Bogart liked and admired, and they became good friends and drinking buddies.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy visited him at this time.

In an interview, Hepburn described the last time she and Spencer Tracy saw Bogart ( the night before he died ):

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

Cagney played Martin " Moe the Gimp " Snyder, a lame Jewish-American gangster from Chicago, a part Spencer Tracy had turned down.

Cagney's next film was Mister Roberts, directed by John Ford and slated to star Spencer Tracy.

Cagney worked with MGM on the Western film Tribute to a Bad Man, a role that had originally been written for Spencer Tracy.

The ruse proved so successful that when Spencer Tracy came to visit, his taxi driver refused to drive up to the house, saying, " I hear they shoot!

Several reports have incorrectly suggested that he took his name in tribute to actor Spencer Tracy, combining Tracy's first and last names.

Based on a true story of a teacher arrested for teaching his students evolution also known as the " Scopes Monkey Trial ," Spacey played defense lawyer Henry Drummond, a role that was made famous by actor Spencer Tracy in the 1960 film of the same name.

He had a substantially more important part as Hector, the small town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 ) with Spencer Tracy.

With the help of her mother's colleagues in theatre, including Zasu Pitts, Walter Huston, and Spencer Tracy, she pursued a career as a professional actress.

Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib ( 1949 ) and Pat and Mike ( 1952 ).

Inherit the Wind was made into a 1960 film directed by Stanley Kramer, with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as Brady.

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The play's American première was at the Garrick Theatre in New York City in October 1922, where it ran for 184 performances, a production in which Spencer Tracy and Pat O ' Brien played robots in their Broadway debuts.

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* In 1937 as Captains Courageous ( film ), produced by Louis D. Lighton, directed by Victor Fleming and starring Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney, and John Carradine.

The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.

William Boehnel wrote in the New York World-Telegram, " To begin with, it has Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in the leading roles.

An Affair to Remember, The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who come to oppose each other in court.

The following morning, married lawyers, Adam and Amanda Bonner ( Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn ) read about the incident in the newspaper.

AFI has also honored the film's stars, naming Katharine Hepburn the greatest American screen legend among females, and Spencer Tracy # 9 among males.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as Christina and Matt Drayton. The film tells the story of Joanna " Joey " Drayton ( Katharine Houghton ), a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( Sidney Poitier ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii.

The plot centers on Joanna ’ s return to her liberal upper-class American home in San Francisco, bringing her new fiancé to dinner to meet her parents ( newspaper publisher Matt Drayton ( Spencer Tracy ), perhaps a Hearst characterization, and his wife, small art gallery owner Christina Drayton ( Katharine Hepburn )).

Mac said of the script, " They want to make it a comedy, but I won't disrespect Spencer, Katharine or Sidney ( Poitier ).

The film stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, with Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson and William Bendix.

Sam Craig ( Spencer Tracy ) and Tess Harding ( Katharine Hepburn ) are journalists for the same New York newspaper in the early 1940s.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in a promotional shot for the film.

The historic El Rancho Hotel & Motel has hosted a numerous array of movie stars including John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Gregory Peck and Burt Lancaster.

His high-profile estrangement and then divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey ended up marrying the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then ex-wife Allen married the opposing lawyer, William Dwight Whitney.

An Affair to Remember: A Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

' Once upon a time ,' Saleem muses, ' there were Radha and Krishna, and Rama and Sita, and Laila and Majnun ; also ( because we are not unaffected by the West ) Romeo and Juliet, and Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn ," ( 259 ).

According to Stephen Bogart, the original members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack were: Frank Sinatra ( pack master ), Judy Garland ( first vice-president ), Bacall ( den mother ), Sid Luft ( cage master ), Bogart ( rat in charge of public relations ), Swifty Lazar ( recording secretary and treasurer ), Nathaniel Benchley ( historian ), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen.

Kanin, together with George Cukor, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn, conspired to promote Holliday by offering her a key part in the 1949 film Adam's Rib.