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.

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

Whistler and his family made their way to Chicago on a schooner called 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 made a total of 25 pictures in the five years he was with Fox Film Corporation, most of which lost money at the box office.

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.

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

Poster for Woman of the Year ( 1942 ), the first of nine pictures Tracy made with Katharine Hepburn

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

A documentary about Tracy was made in 1986, entitled The Spencer Tracy Legacy.

Omaha's Boys Town was made famous by the Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney movie Boys Town.

The organization retains many Whaler connections among its off-ice personnel ; in addition to many members of executive management and the coaching staff, broadcasters Chuck Kaiton, John Forslund and Tripp Tracy ( at the time a minor-league player ), and equipment managers Wally Tatomir, Skip Cunningham and Bob Gorman all made the move to North Carolina with the team.

Woman of the Year was the first of nine films Hepburn and Tracy made together.

The role of the judge was offered to both Spencer Tracy and Burl Ives, but ultimately went to Joseph Welch, who had made a name for himself representing the U. S. Army in hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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 ).

Other films that Fleming made with Tracy include Captains Courageous ( for which Tracy won his first Oscar ), A Guy Named Joe, and Test Pilot.

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.

Castroneves repeated his Indianapolis 500 win in 2002 despite controversial circumstances involving a late race caution and a pass made by Tracy, and his teammate de Ferran won in 2003.

Don Galloway's daughter, Tracy Galloway, made a few guest appearances as well.

Lake made her film debut as Tracy Turnblad, the lead character in John Waters ' 1988 cult-classic Hairspray.

The development of the MV-series was documented in Tracy Kidder ’ s popular 1981 book, The Soul of a New Machine.

Ice-T was born Tracy Marrow, son of Solomon and Alice Marrow, in Newark, New Jersey.

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.

It was during a tour with his debate team that Tracy auditioned for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts ( AADA ) in New York City.

Immediately following graduation, Tracy joined a new stock company based in White Plains, New York where he was given periphery roles.

" When he took a position with a struggling company in New Jersey, Tracy was living on an allowance of 35 cents a day.

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

" Upon its release, The New Yorker wrote of the " hopeless miscasting of Mr. Tracy ".

" Brendan Gill of The New Yorker wrote that Tracy gave " a faultless and, under the circumstances, heartbreaking performance.

Tracy met actress Louise Treadwell while they were both members of The Wood Players in White Plains, New York — the first stock company Tracy joined after graduating.

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

* Bertram Tracy Clayton ( 1862 – 1918 )- U. S. House of Representatives representing New York and U. S. Army officer killed in World War I.

In 1686, Thomas Parke, Thomas Tracy, and several others petitioned for and were granted by the Connecticut General Court authority to establish a plantation seven miles square to the east of Norwich and north of New London and Stonington.

Port Allen is the hometown of Tracy Porter, the New Orleans Saints cornerback who clinched the Saints ' win in Super Bowl XLIV with his late fourth quarter interception of a pass by Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning.

Mountain House, one of the latest New Urbanist projects in the United States, is a new town located near Tracy, California.

* 1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

Alex Pareene, who writes about politics for Salon, in New York in 2012Regular contributors include the political opinion writers Glenn Greenwald and Alex Pareene ; political analyst Steve Kornacki and David Sirota ; critics Laura Miller and Andrew O ' Hehir ; pop-culture columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams ; aviation columnist Patrick Smith ; Tracy Clark-Flory writing on feminist and gender topics ; advice columnist Cary Tennis ; and economics writer Andrew Leonard.

The game is mentioned several times ( as " Adventure ") in Tracy Kidder's non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine, first as a game played by an engineer working on the Eagle project, and eventually as a final test for the newly created computer.

* The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder

* Blatt, Harvey ; Tracy, Robert J .; Owens, Brent ( 2005 ), Petrology: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic ( New York: W. H. Freeman ).

*** The New Orleans Saints, for Tracy Porter.

The second invasion force was led by the aristocrat Alexandre de Prouville, the " Marquis de Tracy " and viceroy of New France.