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Show Actor Fought Many Years FoHStardom By RHEILAH GRAHAM Copyright. 1937, for The Telegram HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 17 Spencer Tracy . . . "The beat actor in Hollywood" Holly-wood" . , . Born, Milwaukee. M years ago, of Irish-American stock At IS Joined the navy and was Invalided out of tha war with $30 a month and Influenia , . . Starved on this pittance at the American Academy of Dramatic Art In New York . . . 1 came hers seven years ago to do Tip Tha River with Claire Luce and Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Hum-phrey was ths hero. Warren Hymer and I. the comics or at least we thought we were." . . . Five years of mediocre films until "Fury" revealed re-vealed the "Grade A" actor in Tracy . . . Then came "San Francisco." Fran-cisco." and "Captains Courageous." Tracy considers the last named his best picture ... He nearly didn't make It because he thought the role too rood for him. Hie worst? "Oh, I couldn't tsll you I've had soma pretty bad ones. - A fen mme -Dig Cities' fm In-' In-' stance, and my career prospects wouldn't look so hot." . . . Enjoyed ' working with Freddie Bartholomew I "He's a regular boy." Haa the bualret picture erhed-, erhed-, ub in Hollywood. Teat Pilot," with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. . follow "Mannequin;" then "Ho , Who Gcte Mapped," Threw Com-. Com-. redee," and "Sea of Oraee" with Luiee Rainer. ' The last vacation I had was 1 in tha hospital. So my wife takes them for me now. She's Just come back from Honolulu with the kids. ! (Louise, S, John, 12). John wants to be a cartoonist and work for Walt Disney. He peddles papers now. , . . Tracy married Louise 14 years ago. : . . Mrs. Tracy is not interested In a movie career for herself never visits the studio . . . But attends at-tends all tha premieres and telephones tele-phones her husband afterwards but only when she thinks the film is good. . . . She' called him twice after "Captains Courageous." |