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

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.

On July 27, 1889, Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy signed General Order # 374, making " The Star-Spangled Banner " the official tune to be played at the raising of the flag.

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.

* Tracy Stover ( played by Annabeth Gish ) — Willie's long term girlfriend, a beautiful attorney who might be Willie's future spouse.

Directed by Fritz Lang, Tracy played a man who swears revenge after narrowly escaping death by a lynch mob.

Tracy played a presidential candidate in the movie, which was warmly received.

Appearing alone on screen for the majority of the film, Tracy considered The Old Man and the Sea the toughest part he ever played.

Tracy took a year to commit to the project, in which he played an Irish-American mayor seeking re-election.

In The Devil at 4 O ' Clock ( 1961 ), Tracy played a priest for the fourth time in his career.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner explores the topic of interracial marriage, with Tracy playing a liberal-minded newspaper publisher whose values are challenged when his daughter wishes to marry a black man, played by Sidney Poitier.

Joseph Mankiewicz ' 1949 House of Strangers is often considered a Lear adaptation, but the parallels are more striking in its 1954 Western remake Broken Lance in which a cattle baron played by Spencer Tracy tyrannises over his three sons, of whom only the youngest, Joe, played by Robert Wagner, remains loyal.

Sexual acts played a fundamental role in the church's sacred rites, which were performed by Mary Ellen Tracy herself in her assumed role of High Priestess.

* Malinda Williams ( born 1975 ), actress who played hair stylist Tracy " Bird " Van Adams on the Showtime television drama Soul Food.

The owner of the saloon, Silk Miller ( played by Hollingsworth ), and his accomplices sense trouble and hire gunman Blaze Tracy ( played by Hart ), the most dangerous man around, to run the minister out of town.

The Partridge children were played by David Cassidy ( Jones ' real-life stepson ) as her eldest son Keith, Susan Dey as Laurie, Danny Bonaduce as Danny, Jeremy Gelbwaks as Chris, and Suzanne Crough as Tracy.

The central character — an escaped prisoner played by Tracy — is seen as comparatively passive and fatalistic.

In a sense, the protagonist of the film is not the Tracy character but a humble German worker played by Hume Cronyn, who changes from Nazi sympathizer to active opponent of the regime as he aids Tracy.

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 ).

On The Partridge Family, she played Tracy Partridge, the youngest child, who sang backing vocals and played the tambourine.

In 1962, the " Big W " scenes from the ensemble comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World starring Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracy, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers and others were filmed on the grounds of a private estate locally known as " Portuguese Point " near Abalone Cove shoreline park.

Tracy finished off the 1940s with Malaya ( 1949 ), an adventure film with James Stewart, and Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), a comedy with Tracy and Hepburn playing married lawyers who oppose each other in court.

Among many initiatives in the early years of AOL, Case personally championed many innovative online interactive titles and games, including graphical chat environments Habitat ( 1986 ) and Club Caribe ( 1989 ), the first online interactive fiction series QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed ( 1988 ), Quantum Space, the first fully automated Play by email game ( 1989 ), and the original Dungeons & Dragons title Neverwinter Nights, the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ( MMORPG ) to depict the adventure with graphics instead of text ( 1991 ).

Several of their adventure games were based on book licenses, including Frederik Pohl's Gateway, Terry Brooks ' Shannara, Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Piers Anthony's Xanth, and Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's The Death Gate Cycle.

Tracy Hickman once ran the adventure as a Dungeon Master.

Boom Town is a 1940 adventure drama Hollywood film starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, and Frank Morgan.

* Out in the Black by Laura and Tracy Hickman, the system's first adventure, was released on 2006-03-15.

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.

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

Ford wanted Tracy for the lead role in his next picture, a prison movie.

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

" Tracy received strong reviews for his performance, and the movie grossed $ 4 million worldwide.

In October of that year, a Fortune magazine survey to find the nation's favorite movie actor listed Tracy in first place.

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

Hepburn greatly admired Tracy, calling him " the best movie actor there was ".

In June 1955 he was the last remaining star of the studio's heyday, but with his contract up for renewal — Tracy opted to go independent for the first time in his movie career.

Tracy was happy to be working again, but told the press the movie would be his last.

He continues to receive praise from film scholars: critic Leonard Maltin calls Tracy " one of the 20th century ’ s finest actors ", while film historian Jeanine Basinger describes his career as a " golden record of movie achievement ".

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

* The 1938 movie called Boys Town features actor Spencer Tracy portraying Flanagan.

The movie tells the story of a daredevil test pilot ( Gable ), his wife ( Loy ), and his best friend ( Tracy ).

Fletcher in the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, TV legend Dick Van Dyke had a villainous role in Matlocks very first regular episode, " The Judge " ( 1986 ).

The movie stars Spencer Tracy in the titular role, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, and Leo G. Carroll.

The movie won the Academy Award for Best Actor ( Maximilian Schell ) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Spencer Tracy ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Montgomery Clift ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Judy Garland ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Rudolph Sternad, George Milo ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.

Gracie Allen died in 1964, while watching a Spencer Tracy movie on television.

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.

The movie is Captains Courageous, starring Spencer Tracy.

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.

She has a cameo appearance in the 2007 remake of the original cult-classic Hairspray as a William Morris talent agent, and teamed up with star Nikki Blonsky, who had played the role of Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 movie musical remake, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, who had played the role of Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway musical based on the original 1988 film, to record " Mama I'm a Big Girl Now " for the soundtrack, which is played at the film's end credits.