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.

" Tracy stole parts from bicycles and assembled " three or four weird-looking, brightly painted bikes " from the parts ; his father either did not notice, or never acknowledged this.

It was Tracy's involvement that ensured that Cagney accepted a supporting role, although in the end, Tracy did not take part.

Gould did his best to keep up with the latest in crime fighting techniques ; while Tracy often ends a case in a shootout, he uses forensic science, advanced gadgetry, and wits to track the bad guy down.

As technology progressed, so too did the methods Tracy and the police used to track and capture criminals.

After two screen tests failed to elicit a response from the studios, Tracy did not consider becoming a film actor: " I had no ambition in that direction and I was perfectly happy on the stage.

Production company Fox Film Corporation were unsure about Tracy, saying that he did not photograph well in make-up.

Ford convinced Fox that Tracy did not need make-up, and he was cast in the movie.

Boom Town was the last movie Tracy made in which his name did not feature in pole position.

MGM did not hesitate to repeat the teaming of Tracy and Hepburn and cast them in the dark mystery Keeper of the Flame ( 1942 ).

Offers continued to come, but Tracy did not work again until Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( 1967 ), Tracy's ninth and final film with Hepburn.

Tracy was an avowed Catholic, but his cousin, Jane Feely, said that he did not devoutly follow the religion: " he was often not a practical either.

Tracy did not believe actors should publicize their political views, but in 1940 lent his name to the " Hollywood for Roosevelt " committee.

Tracy did not like to rehearse, however, and would lose his effectiveness after two or three takes.

Due to Tracy and Hepburn's close history with Kramer, Poitier cited that Hepburn and Tracy came to bear on him " the kind of respect they had for Kramer, and they had to say to themselves ( and I'm sure they did ), This kid has to be pretty okay, because Stanley is nuts about working with him ".

The TV versions of Mister Magoo and Dick Tracy were not successful and did nothing to reverse the studio's financial decline.

Examples of this include Janis Ian, Tracy Chapman, Rick Springfield, Golden Earring, Lenny Kravitz, Sugar Ray, Kylie Minogue ( although she did have a couple other minor hits at the beginning of her career in addition to her hugely successful cover of " The Loco-Motion "), Lifehouse, Jason Mraz, Train, Joe Jackson, Tyrese, INXS, Finger Eleven, Billy Ocean, Sara Bareilles and Enya.

Jim Tracy reportedly said that he did not start Choi on one particular day because Adam Eaton was pitching, and Eaton has a unique arm angle in his pitching delivery.

For Tracy, who was nominated as Best Actor in the role, the film would become the first of four films he did for Kramer.

Tracy clarifies her story, saying that she did not promise to Lee that he was going to be on the TV show.

During the belly piercing scene, the line in which Tracy asks " What the fuck did you do?

Once Tracy was sold to the Chicago Tribune syndicate, Gould enrolled in a criminology class at Northwestern University, met with members of the Chicago Police Department, and did research at the Department's crime lab, to make his depiction of law enforcement more authentic.

Kessler, Santomero and Johnson, according to Tracy, did not possess the traditional backgrounds of most producers of children's programs, but " did possess an amazing combination of talents, backgrounds, and personal attributes ".

Over the next decade he continued to appear in movies, such as Dick Tracy and Alien Nation.

She was signed to appear in State of the Union with Gary Cooper, who was replaced by Spencer Tracy.

( Lee Tracy was originally to appear in the film until he drunkenly urinated off the balcony into a crowd of Mexicans standing below ; Tracy's career never recovered from the incident.

* The Irregulars appear as the main characters in Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, a 2006 novel by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin.

Her mother often left Tracy to stay by herself when Tracy was very young and does not appear to have an interest in her daughter's life.

There was an urgent need to fill the gap he had left and Tracy Chapman, who had already performed her act, agreed to appear again.

* Cortical inheritance, structural inheritance was discovered by Tracy Sonneborn, and other researchers, during his study on protozoa in the late 1930s

In 2007, several groundbreaking storylines took place on Coronation Street, such as Tracy Barlow murdering Charlie Stubbs and claiming it was self-defence, as well as the show featuring its second two hander with Tracy Barlow confessing to her mother Deirdre Barlow she had planned to kill Charlie all along.

The storyline saw viewing figures peaking at 13. 3 million, and the episode on 2 April 2007, where Tracy was found guilty of Charlie's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, was watched by 12. 6 million viewers.

After an absence of three years, Tracy Barlow returned on 7 May 2010, in a plot to reduce her sentence by convincing cellmate Gail to confess to Joe's murder.

Tracy Fields, a Los Angeles bus driver and fan of Coleman's work on Diff ' rent Strokes, approached him and requested his autograph while he was shopping for a bulletproof vest in a California mall.

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

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.

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

* Jurassic woman BBC News audio slide show on Anning narrated by Tracy Chevalier.

Whistler and his family made their way to Chicago on a schooner called Tracy.

The troops reached Chicago on August 17 ; the Tracy was anchored about half a mile offshore, unable to enter the Chicago River due to a sandbar at its mouth.

In 1949, on Christmas Day, Dick Tracy and Tess Trueheart finally married, after a rocky courtship lasting the 18-year history of the strip to that date.

Gould incurred some controversy when he had Tracy, on a police officer's salary, live in an unaccountably ostentatious manner in a large home complete with a personal Cadillac.

In the 1950s, with growing public awareness of organized crime growing, due to events like the Kefauver Hearings, Tracy began to take on a series of big-time mobsters such as the King, George " Mr. Crime " Alpha, Odds Zonn and Willie " The Fifth " Millyun.

This marked the beginning of the strip's " Space Period ," that saw Tracy and friends having adventures on the Moon and meeting Moon Maid, the daughter of the leader of a race of humanoid people living in " Moon Valley " in 1964.

However, Tracy ended up back on Earth when the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 showed that the moon was barren of all life.

In the 1990s, Tracy's own son, Joseph Flintheart Tracy, took on a role similar to Junior's in the earlier strips.

Gravel Gertie was introduced as the unwitting dupe ( accessory ) of the villain, The Brow, who was on the run from Dick Tracy.

Chester Gould retired from comics in 1977 ; his last Dick Tracy strip appeared in print on Sunday, December 25 of that year.

" Flattop ", particularly, had a number of relatives, all with his characteristic head structure and facial attributes, who one by one turned up to avenge their ancestor on Tracy.

On May 2, 2011, the Tennessee Senate passed Resolution 30, congratulating Mike Curtis and Joe Staton on their professional accomplishments, including Dick Tracy.

Gable and Tracy also made two other films together, Test Pilot and Boom Town, before Tracy eventually insisted on the same top billing clause in his MGM contract that Gable had enjoyed, effectively ending the American cinema's most famous screen team.

Tracy was born on April 5, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.