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Directed by Fritz Lang, Tracy played a man who swears revenge after narrowly escaping death by a lynch mob.
Directed by Fritz Lang, the film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney and Bruce Cabot and features Walter Abel, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan.
Cineaste also credited Beban for his intense performance, commenting on the fight sequence in which Beban's character " seethes with murderous determination " as the camera focuses on his face in an extreme close-up: " Beban's sudden transformation from amiability to wrath recalls the first glimpse of Spencer Tracy after nearly being lynched in Fritz Lang's Fury.
He starred with Spencer Tracy, playing the leader of a lynch mob in Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury ( 1936 ), and with Errol Flynn in Michael Curtiz's epic Western Dodge City, which became one of Warner Bros .' s biggest hits.

Tracy and Lang's
* May 29-Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.

Tracy and Fury
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.
Fury ( 1936 ) was the first film to prove that Tracy could make a success on his own merit.
Donald Deschner, in his book on Tracy, credits Fury and San Francisco as the " two films that changed his career and gave him the status of a major star.
* Fury ( film ), a 1936 movie starring Spencer Tracy

Tracy and 1936
Riffraff ( 1936 ) put Tracy opposite Jean Harlow.
Libeled Lady is a 1936 screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy, written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan, and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway.
She made four films in close succession with William Powell: Libeled Lady ( 1936 ), which also starred Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), in which she played Billie Burke opposite Powell's Florenz Ziegfeld, the second " Thin Man " film, After the Thin Man with Powell and James Stewart, and the romantic comedy Double Wedding ( 1937 ).
* Spencer Tracy during the filming of Whipsaw in 1935 and Libeled Lady in 1936.
She journeyed to Hollywood to write screenplays, including the 1936 comedy Libeled Lady with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, and Spencer Tracy.
Among his successes of the 1930s were Anna Karenina ( 1935 ) with Greta Garbo and Fredric March ; Professional Soldier ( 1935 ) with Victor McLaglen and Gloria Stuart ; Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) with Dolores Costello and C. Aubrey Smith ; Lloyd's of London ( 1937 ) with Madeleine Carroll and Tyrone Power ; The Devil is a Sissy ( 1936 ) with Mickey Rooney and Jackie Cooper ; and Captains Courageous ( 1937 ) with Spencer Tracy.
The New York Times had sold Current History in 1936 to the editor Merle Tracy ; in 1939 it was sold again, to an ownership group that included Joseph Hilton Smyth, who also acquired such magazines as The Living Age and The North American Review.
Kimball Union operates ten residences ranging in size from 5 to 45 students, including Bryant Hall ( 1910 ), Chellis Hall ( 1835 ), Densmore Hall ( 1963 ), Dexter Richards Hall ( 1936 ), Hazelton House ( 1825 ), Kilton House ( 1830 ), Mikula Hall ( 1985 ), Rowe Hall ( 1820 ), Tracy House ( 1961 ), and Welch House ( 1835 ).

Tracy and film
* Bug ( 2006 film ), an adaptation of the Tracy Letts play, directed by William Friedkin
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.
This sound film starred Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke and was an early example of the " fast-talking " sound films that Howard Hawks would later make one of his signatures.
) Tracy and Bogart appeared in their only film together in John Ford's early sound film Up the River ( 1930 ), with both playing inmates.
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.
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.
Other film roles include Alien Nation ( 1988 ), Yentl ( 1983 ), Dick Tracy ( 1990 ), and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland ( 1999 ).
Inherit the Wind was made into a 1960 film directed by Stanley Kramer, with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as Brady.
His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.
* 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.
* 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.
Tracy won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in this film.
The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.
After a successful film debut in Up the River, Tracy was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation.
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.
Up the River ( 1930 ) marked the film debut of both Tracy and Humphrey Bogart.
William Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: " This sterling performer has finally been given an opportunity to show an ability that has been boxed in by gangster roles ... film has introduced Mr. Tracy as one of the screen's best performers ".
Tracy starred alongside Clark Gable in the film, allowing audiences to see him with the top male star in Hollywood.
Howard Barnes of the New York Herald Tribune was not charmed by the story, but wrote that Tracy, " by sheer persuasion of his acting ", made the film worthy.

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Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor in a promotional image for Father of the Bride ( 1950 film ) | Father of the Bride ( 1950 ).
Inherit the Wind ( 1960 film ) | Inherit the Wind ( 1960 ), the first of four films Tracy made with Stanley Kramer, depicted the Scopes Trial | Scopes " Monkey Trial " of 1925
Katy Jurado with Spencer Tracy in the 1954 in film | 1954 film Broken Lance
| Win || 14 – 1 – 1 || Tracy Gordon || TKO || 1 || September 5, 1992 || Daytona Beach, Florida, USA ||
The Forrester family ( l-r ): Kristen Forrester Dominguez | Kristen ( Tracy Lindsey Melchior | Tracy Melchior ), Thorne Forrester | Thorne ( Winsor Harmon ), Felicia Forrester | Felicia ( Lesli Kay ), Eric Forrester | Eric ( John McCook ), Stephanie Douglas Forrester | Stephanie ( Susan Flannery ) and Ridge Forrester | Ridge ( Ronn Moss ).
| Win || 27 – 1 || align = left | Tracy Harris Patterson
| Win || 24 – 1 || align = left | Tracy Harris Patterson
| | Phineas L. Tracy ( A )

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