According to James Curtis, author of the new 1,056-page "Spencer Tracy: A Biography," it could have been actress Loretta Young who became the love of Tracy's life, not Katharine Hepburn, his partner ...

Hollywood craziness claims the least "Hollywood%E2%80%9D of stars in this massive, eye-opening biography. Onscreen, in Boys Town to Judgment at Nuremberg, Tracy (1900 ...

In the 1930 comedy Up the River, two inmates break out of prison to help their former roommate avoid a life of crime. The film, which was a modest hit in its time, is largely remembered as the first ...

As he entered the elder statesman phase of his career, Spencer Tracy often played men of integrity whose gruff exterior ...

There's a great story between the covers of "Spencer Tracy: A Biography," yet it's tougher to get to than it ought to be. Author James Curtis needed to be more ruthless when it came to deciding what ...

Restored to its original length and screening at the Museum of Modern Art, this 1933 movie starring Spencer Tracy feels at once surprisingly frank and disquietingly coy. By J. Hoberman A celebrant of ...