Sidney Poitier frequently found himself star-struck and as a result, a bit tongue-tied, in the presence of Hepburn and Tracy, whom he considered to be " giants " as far as acting is concerned.

Tracy himself, conceived by Gould as a " modern-day Sherlock Holmes ", was partly modeled on real-life law enforcer Eliot Ness, and his first, and most frequently recurring, antagonist, the Big Boy, was based on Ness's real-life nemesis Al Capone.

Barenaked Ladies frequently played a song called " The Trouble With Tracy " live in concert in the early 1990s.

Less frequently, the epithet has been applied to an actor who is often associated with one particular actress, for example, Errol Flynn was Olivia de Havilland's leading man in several films, Spencer Tracy had a similar association with Katharine Hepburn ; used in this sense, however, the woman is usually described as the leading lady of the man.

The ambitious series frequently featured critically acclaimed dramas, including the original television versions of The Miracle Worker ( with Teresa Wright as Annie Sullivan ), and The Helen Morgan Story ( with an Emmy to Polly Bergen for her performance in the title role ), In the Presence of Mine Enemies ( Rod Serling's Warsaw ghetto drama starring Charles Laughton, with Robert Redford in an early role ), and the original television version of Judgment at Nuremberg, featuring Maximilian Schell in the role he would repeat in the 1961 film, but with an otherwise different cast, including Claude Rains in the Spencer Tracy role.

In 2002 and 2003, he frequently wrestled for Xtreme Pro Wrestling, where he formed a tag team with Tracy Smothers known as Southern Comfort, also having a long-running feud for the TV title with Kaos and The Enterprise.

He implies that the boy, whom they never met but whom they frequently saw sitting at his bedroom window, was a witness to Jed injecting Tracy with Perganol.

* Tracy and Linda Rabbitte-two youngest children, twin girls, who frequently behave mischievously, provoking the ire of the parents.

The show follows the work of Dr. Tracy, his daughter Paula ( Cheryl Miller ), and his staff, who frequently protected animals from poachers and local officials.

Mavis ' press agent was Joe Tracy, who was secretly in love with her, and frequently visited the museum on Mavis ' behalf.

A Current Affair is a populist current affairs program broadcast on the Nine Network at 6: 30pm on weeknights and presented by Tracy Grimshaw.

The TV programmes expand on the lives of the children's daily affairs, whereas the book ends with Cam fostering Tracy and her living happily ever after.

In the 2007 regular season, the Diamondbacks enjoyed success with a young team including Brandon Webb, Conor Jackson, Stephen Drew, Carlos Quentin, Chad Tracy, Chris Young, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds ( called up from Double-A in May ) and Justin Upton ( called up from Double-A in August ).

The style of the Fosdick sequences closely mimicks Tracy, including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, and even the lettering style.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

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.

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.

He also wrote five songs for the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, including " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" which won the Academy Award for Best Song.

* Five songs for Warren Beatty's film Dick Tracy ( 1990 ), including " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )", which won the Academy Award for Best Song.

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

In 1938, outside scientists including H. Houston Merritt and Tracy Putnam discovered phenytoin's usefulness for controlling seizures, without the sedative effects associated with phenobarbital.

She worked with many Hollywood legends, including Gary Cooper in High Noon, Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance, and Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, and such respected directors as Fred Zinneman ( High Noon ), Sam Peckinpah ( The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ) and John Huston ( Under the Volcano ).

Chums is a popular site for student performances and concerts, including Tracy Chapman, Joan Baez, Matt Pond PA, and Genesis ( notable as their first American performance ).

Louis-Dreyfus was among several Saturday Night Live alumni appearing in the episode, including Rachel Dratch, Bill Hader, Tracy Morgan, Alec Baldwin, and Tina Fey herself.

A number of small communities sprang up along these lines, including the one named for railroad director Lathrop J. Tracy.

UPA expanded the Mr. Magoo series and brought it to television, along with other animated series, including an adaptation of the comic strip Dick Tracy.

The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation.

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.

Twelve churches are located in Tracy City, including the Tracy City First Baptist Church, which was founded in 1892.

In the past 50 years, entertainment such as Matt Dillon, Festus, Dennis Weaver and from the popular Western series on television in the 1950s and 1960s have appeared at the rodeo as have some of today's top country music stars including Alabama, Lonestar, Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Travis Tritt, Tracy Lawrence, Sammy Kershaw, Doug Stone, Lorrie Morgan, Tanya Tucker, Pam Tillis, and many more.

Vini Reilly ( 1989 ), also produced by Reilly and Street, features extensive use of sampling, with looped samples of vocalists ( including Otis Redding, Tracy Chapman, Annie Lennox and Joan Sutherland ) used as the basis for several tracks.

Nancy Kelly ( March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995 ) was an American actress, who was a movie leading lady in the late 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James ( 1939 ), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.

Since then, Combs installed members of her family as high-ranking officials in the group, including her daughter Michele Ammons and her son-in-law Tracy Ammons.

The course has gone on to produce a number of distinguished authors, including Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Enright, Tash Aw, Andrew Miller, Owen Sheers, Tracy Chevalier, Trezza Azzopardi, Panos Karnezis, and Suzannah Dunn. The German émigré novelist W. G. Sebald also taught in the School of Literature and Creative Writing, and founded the British Centre for Literary Translation, until his death in a car accident in 2001.

She journeyed to Hollywood to write screenplays, including the 1936 comedy Libeled Lady with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, and Spencer Tracy.

In an ecstatic interview after the game, Jim Tracy stated that he told the Rockies ' preceding batter, relief pitcher Adam Eaton, not to swing: " I don't care if he throws three right down the middle, don't swing because I want Spilborghs to have a shot with the bases loaded.

The character of Karen McDonald ( Suranne Jones ) was developed, with her fiery marriage to Steve and warring with Tracy Barlow.

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 Lemon Drop Kid ( 1934, Lee Tracy ) — remade in 1951 with Bob Hope ( and I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley as a racetrack tout ), it introduced the Christmas song " Silver Bells ".

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.

) Tracy and Bogart appeared in their only film together in John Ford's early sound film Up the River ( 1930 ), with both playing inmates.

Solomon raised Tracy while he was a single father for four years, with help from a housekeeper.

Following his father's death, Tracy lived with a nearby aunt briefly, and was sent to live with his other aunt and her husband in View Park-Windsor Hills, a middle-class black neighborhood by South Los Angeles.

While his cousin Earl was preparing to leave for college, Tracy shared a room with him.

Tracy aligned with the Crips, and began reading the novels of Iceberg Slim, which he memorized and recited to his friends, who enjoyed hearing the excerpts and told him, " Yo, kick some more of that by Ice, T ," and the handle stuck.

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

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 band living in a Manchester flat, he had a relationship with a girl named Tracy who bore him a son, Paul Inder, although it would not be until the boy was six that Lemmy had any involvement with him.

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

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.

Actual " whodunit " plots were relatively rare in the stories ; the focus is the chase, with a criminal committing a crime and Tracy solving the case during a relentless pursuit of the criminal, who becomes increasingly desperate as the detective closes in.

Tracy had a difficult relationship with his girlfriend, Tess Trueheart, who found her beau's firm dedication to his work both an irritating interference and a physical danger with her being often caught in the crossfire in his cases.

The stormy relationship hit its nadir when she rejected Tracy to marry a charming wealthy ex-baseball player, only to find herself trapped in a deadly family intrigue that led to murder and the suicide of her husband that proved so traumatizing that she resumed her relationship with Tracy with a much more patient attitude toward his commitments.