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OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES trailer
Tracy plays an extended scene with actress Margaret O’Brien. Release date: September 1945.
NATIONAL CANCER WEEK trailer
Release date: April 21, 1946. Cast: Spencer Tracy.
THE SEA OF GRASS
Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Elia Kazan. Based upon the novel by Conrad Richter. Screenplay: Marguerite Roberts, Vincent Lawrence (uncredited: E. E. Paramore, Jr.). Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Harry Stradling. Editor: Robert J. Kern. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 25, 1947. Running time: 122 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Colonel Jim Brewton), Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter, Edgar Buchanan, Harry Carey, Ruth Nelson, William “Bill” Philips, Robert Armstrong, James Bell, Robert Barrat, Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, Trevor Bardette, Morris Ankrum.
CASS TIMBERLANE
Producer: Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Director: George Sidney. Based upon the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Adaptation: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sonya Levien. Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart. Music: Roy Webb. Photography: Robert Planck. Editor: John Dunning. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: January 9, 1948. Running time: 119 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Cass Timberlane), Lana Turner, Zachary Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Astor, Albert Dekker, Margaret Lindsay, Rose Hobart, John Litel, Mona Barrie, Josephine Hutchinson, Selena Royle, Frank Wilcox, Richard Gaines, John Alexander, Cameron Mitchell, Howard Freeman, Jessie Grayson, Griff Barnett, Pat Clark.
LISTENING EYES
Director: Larry Lansburgh. Photography: Hal Albert, John Norwood (Ansco Color). Production: USC School of Cinema, Walt Disney Productions. Distribution: John Tracy Clinic. First public showing: January 19, 1948. Running time: 18 minutes. Cast: Louise Tracy, Alathena Smith. Narrator: Spencer Tracy.
STATE OF THE UNION
Producer-director: Frank Capra. Associate producer: Anthony Veiller. Based upon the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly (uncredited: Frank Capra). Music: Victor Young. Photography: George J. Folsey. Editor: William Hornbeck. Production: Liberty Films. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 30, 1948. Running time: 124 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Grant Matthews), Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou, Lewis Stone, Howard Smith, Charles Dingle, Maidel Turner, Raymond Walburn, Margaret Hamilton, Art Baker, Pierre Watkin, Florence Auer, Irving Bacon, Charles Lane, Patti Brady, George Nokes, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, Tom Fadden, Tom Pedi.
EDWARD, MY SON
Producer: Edwin H. Knopf. Director: George Cukor. Based upon the play by Robert Morley and Noel Langley. Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart (uncredited: Luther Davis). Music: John Woodridge. Photography: F. A. Young. Editor: Raymond Poulton. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 10, 1949. Running time: 117 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Arnold Boult), Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, James Donald, Mervyn Johns, Leureen MacGrath, Felix Aylmer, Walter Fitzgerald, Tilsa Page, Ernest Jay, Colin Gordon, Harriette Johns, Julian d’Albie, Clement McCallin.
ADAM’S RIB
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin. Music: Miklos Rozsa. Song: “Farewell, Amanda” (music and lyrics: Cole Porter). Photography: George Folsey. Editor: George Boemler. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: November 18, 1949. Running time: 101 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Adam Bonner), Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, Hope Emerson, Eve March, Clarence Kolb, Emerson Treacy, Polly Moran, Will Wright, Elizabeth Flournoy.
MALAYA
Producer: Edwin H. Knopf. Director: Richard Thorpe. Story: Manchester Boddy. Screenplay: Frank Fenton. Music: Bronislau Kaper. Photography: George Folsey. Editor: Ben Lewis. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: January 6, 1950. Running time: 95 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Carnahan), James Stewart, Valentina Cortesa, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, Lionel Barrymore, Gilbert Roland, Roland Winters, Richard Loo, Ian MacDonald, Tom Helmore.
FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Based upon the novel by Edward Streeter. Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett. Music: Adolph Deutsch. Photography: John Alton. Editor: Ferris Webster. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 16, 1950. Rereleased: 1962 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 93 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Stanley T. Banks), Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, Moroni Olsen, Melville Cooper, Taylor Holmes, Paul Harvey, Frank Orth, Rusty Tamblyn, Tom Irish, Marietta Canty.
FOR DEFENSE, FOR FREEDOM, FOR HUMANITY
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: March 1951. Running time: 3 minutes. Tracy urges the audience to support the annual Red Cross Drive.
FATHER’S LITTLE DIVIDEND
Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Based upon characters created by Edward Streeter. Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett. Music: Albert Sendrey. Photography: John Alton. Editor: Ferris Webster. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 4, 1951. Running time: 82 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Stanley T. Banks), Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, Richard Rober, Marietta Canty, Rusty Tamblyn, Tom Irish, Hayden Roarke, Paul Harvey.
THE PEOPLE AGAINST O’HARA
Producer: William H. Wright. Director: John Sturges. Based upon the novel by Eleazar Lipsky. Screenplay: John Monks, Jr. Music: Carmen Dragon. Photography: John Alton. Editor: Gene Ruggiero. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 7, 1951. Running time: 102 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (James F. Curtayne), Pat O’Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Eduardo Ciannelli, James Arness, Yvette Duguay, Jay C. Flippen, William Campell, Richard Anderson, Henry O’Neill, Arthur Shields, Louise Lorimer, Ann Doran, Emile Meyer, Regis Toomey, Katharine Warren.
PAT AND MIKE
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin. Music: David Raksin. Photography: William Daniels. Editor: George Boemler. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 13, 1952. Running time: 95 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Mike Conovan), Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching, Sammy White, George Mathews, Loring Smith, Phyllis Povah, Charles Buchinski, Frank Richards, Jim Backus, Chuck Connors, Joseph E. Bernard, Owen McGiveney, Lou Lubin, Carl Switzer, William Self. As themselves: Gussie Moran, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Don Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker, Betty Hicks, Beverly Hanson, Helen Dettweiler.
PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE
Producer: Dore Schary. Director: Clarence Brown. Based upon the novel by Ernest Gabler. Screenplay: Helen Deutsch. Music: Miklos Rozsa. Photography: William Daniels (Technicolor). Editor: Robert J. Kern. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: November 28, 1952. Running time: 105 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Captain Jones), Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn, Lloyd Bridges, Dawn Addams, Barry Jones, Noel Drayton, John Dehner, Tommy Ivo, Lowell Gilmore.
THE ACTRESS
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: George Cukor. Based upon the play Years Ago by Ruth Gordon. Screenplay: Ruth Gordon. Music: Bronislau Kaper. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: George Boemler. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 25, 1953. Running time: 90 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Clinton Jones), Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright, Anthony Perkins, Ian Wolfe, Kay Williams, Mary Wickes, Norma Jean Nilsson, Dawn Bender.
TEXAS THEATERS’ CRIPPLED CHILDREN FUND trailer
Director: Harry Loud. Narration: Spencer Tracy. Release date: 1953.
A VISIT WITH SPENCER TRACY
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (for the Variety Clubs of New England in association with the Boston Red Sox). Release date: 1954. Running time: 3 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy.
Tracy urges support of the “Jimmy Fund,” established in Bost
on for the research of childhood cancers and the care of children with cancer.
BROKEN LANCE
Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Story: Philip Yordan. Screenplay: Richard Murphy. Music: Leigh Harline. Photography: Joseph MacDonald (CinemaScope, DeLuxe Color). Editor: Dorothy Spencer. Production and distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release date: July 29, 1954. Running time: 96 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Matt Devereaux), Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado, Hugh O’Brian, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman, E. G. Marshall, Carl Benton Reid, Philip Ober, Robert Burton.
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
Producer: Dore Schary. Associate producer: Herman Hoffman. Director: John Sturges. Based upon the story “Bad Time at Honda,” by Howard Breslin. Adaptation: Don McGuire. Screenplay: Millard Kaufman. Music: André Previn. Photography: William C. Mellor (CinemaScope, Eastman Color). Editor: Newell P. Kimlin. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: January 7, 1955. Rereleased: 1962 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running Time: 81 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (John J. Macreedy), Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande.
THE MOUNTAIN
Producer-director: Edward Dmytryk. Based upon the novel La neige en deuil, by Henri Troyat (English translation by Constantine Fitzgibbon). Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall. Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof. Photography: Franz F. Planer (VistaVision, Technicolor). Editor: Frank Bracht. Production and distribution: Paramount. Release date: September 19, 1956. Running time: 104 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Zachary Teller), Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, Barbara Darrow, Richard Arlen, E. G. Marshall, Anna Kashfi, Richard Garrick, Harry Townes, Stacy Harris, Yves Brainville.
DESK SET
Producer: Henry Ephron. Director: Walter Lang. Based upon the play by William Marchant. Screenplay: Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron. Music: Cyril J. Mockridge. Photography: Leon Shamroy (CinemaScope, De Luxe Color). Editor: Robert Simpson. Production and distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release date: May 15, 1957. Running time: 102 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Richard Sumner), Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, Neva Patterson, Harry Ellerbe, Nicholas Joy, Diane Jergens, Merry Anders, Ida Moore, Rachel Stephens.
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Producer: Leland Hayward. Director: John Sturges (uncredited: Fred Zinnemann). Based upon the novella by Ernest Hemingway. Screenplay: Peter Viertel (uncredited: Ernest Hemingway, Paul Osborn). Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Photography: James Wong Howe. Additional photography: Floyd Crosby, Tom Tutwiler. Underwater photography: Lamar Boren (WarnerColor). Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: October 11, 1958. Rereleased: 1961 (Warner Bros.). Running time: 86 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (The Old Man), Felipe Pazos, Jr., Harry Bellaver.
THE LAST HURRAH
Producer-director: John Ford. Based upon the novel by Edwin O’Connor. Screenplay: Frank Nugent. Photography: Charles Lawton, Jr. Editor: Jack Murray. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: October 22, 1958. Running time: 122 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Frank Skeffington), Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O’Brien, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, James Gleason, Edward Brophy, John Carradine, Willis Bouchey, Basil Ruysdael, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Ford, Frank McHugh, Carleton Young, Frank Albertson, Bob Sweeney, William Leslie, Anna Lee, Ken Curtis, Jane Darwell, O. Z. Whitehead, Arthur Walsh.
INHERIT THE WIND
Producer-director: Stanley Kramer. Based upon the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Screenplay: Nathan E. Douglas [Nedrick Young], Harold Jacob Smith. Production design: Rudolph Sternad. Music: Ernest Gold. Songs: “(Give Me That) Old Time Religion,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Vocals: Leslie Uggams. Photography: Ernest Laszlo. Editor: Frederick Knudtson. Production: Lomitas Productions, Inc. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: October 1, 1960. Running time: 126 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Henry Drummond), Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Elliott Reid, Philip Coolidge, Claude Akins, Paul Hartman, Jimmy Boyd, Noah Beery, Jr., Gordon Polk, Ray Teal, Norman Fell, Hope Summers, Renee Godfrey.
THE DEVIL AT 4 O’CLOCK
Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Based upon the novel by Max Catto. Screenplay: Liam O’Brian. Music: George Duning. Photography: Joseph Biroc (Eastman Color). Editor: Charles Nelson. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: October 18, 1961. Running Time: 127 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Father Matthew Doonan), Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gregoire Aslan, Alexander Scourby, Barbara Luna, Cathy Lewis, Bernie Hamilton, Martin Brandt, Lou Merrill, Marcel Dalio, Tom Middleton, Ann Duggan, Louis Mercier, Michele Montau.
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Producer-director: Stanley Kramer. Associate producer: Philip Langner. Based upon the teleplay by Abby Mann. Screenplay: Abby Mann. Production design: Rudolph Sternad. Music: Ernest Gold. Song: “Lili Marleen” (music: Norbert Schultze; lyrics: Hans Leip). Song: “Liebeslied” (music: Ernest Gold; lyrics: Alfred Perry). Photography: Ernest Laszlo. Editor: Frederick Knudtson. Production: Roxlom Films, Inc. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: December 19, 1961 (roadshow); May 19, 1962 (general). Running time: 189 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Judge Dan Haywood), Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner, Werner Klemperer, Kenneth MacKenna, Torben Meyer, Joseph Bernard, Alan Baxter, Ed Binns, Virginia Christine, Otto Waldis, Karl Swenson, Martin Brandt, Ray Teal, John Wengraf, Ben Wright, Howard Caine, Olga Fabian, Paul Busch, Bernard Kates.
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Producer: Bernard Smith. Directors: John Ford, George Marshall, Henry Hathaway. Screenplay: James R. Webb. Music: Alfred Newman, Ken Darby. Photography: William Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr., Joseph LaShelle (Cinerama, Metrocolor). Editor: Harold Kress. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: November 1, 1962 (European premiere); February 20, 1963 (U.S. premiere). General release: 1964 (35mm). Rereleased: 1969 (70mm). Running time: 155 minutes. Cast: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Brigid Baalen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn. Narrator: Spencer Tracy.
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
Producer-director: Stanley Kramer. Screenplay: William Rose, Tania Rose. Production design: Rudolph Sternad. Music: Ernest Gold. Songs: “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “Thirty-One Flavors,” “You Satisfy My Soul” (music and lyrics: Ernest Gold, Mack David). Photography: Ernest Laszlo (Ultra Panavision, Technicolor). Editors: Frederick Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr. Production: Casey Productions, Inc. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: November 7, 1963 (roadshow), July 25, 1964 (general). Rereleased: 1970 (United Artists). Running Time: 190 minutes (roadshow), 161 minutes (general). Cast: Spencer Tracy (Captain C. G. Culpepper), Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Jim Backus, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Alan Carney, Chick Chandler, Barrie Chase, Lloyd Corrigan, William Demarest, Selma Diamond, Peter Falk, Andy Devine, Norman Fell, Paul Ford, Stan Freeberg, Louise Glenn, Leo Gorcey, Sterling Holloway, Marvin Kaplan, Edward Everett Horton, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Charles Lane, Mike Mazurki, Charles McGraw, Cliff Norton, Zasu Pitts, Carl Reiner, Madlyn Rhue, Roy Roberts, Arnold Stang, Nick Stewart, The Three Stooges, Sammee Tong, Jesse White, Jimmy Durante.
Note: While It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was shot in Ultra Panavision, a 65mm anamorphic process, it was initially exhibited under the trade name Cinerama, a 35mm three-camera process. The film was not originally conceived as a Cinerama production but was rather embraced
by Cinerama, which had been working to develop a single-lens, single-projector system for more than a year. A two-picture deal between Cinerama and United Artists (for Mad World and The Greatest Story Ever Told) was concluded in August 1962. In exchange for the promotional use of the Cinerama logo (and the cachet of opening the film in Cinerama venues with specially adjusted prints), UA paid Cinerama a licensing fee of $50,000.
THE RIPON COLLEGE STORY
Technical Advisers: Leonard W. Vaughn, Richard Kubik. Production: Rick Spalla Video Productions (16mm color). Distribution: Ripon College. Release date: 1965. Running time: 30 minutes. Cast: Jack Ankerson, Margaret Kuney. Narrators: Spencer Tracy, John Willis.
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
Producer-director: Stanley Kramer. Associate producer: George Glass. Screenplay: William Rose. Production design: Robert Clatworthy. Music: Frank De Vol. Song: “Glory of Love” (music and lyrics: Billy Hill). Photography: Sam Leavitt (Technicolor). Editor: Robert C. Jones. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: December 11, 1967. Rereleased: 1972 (Columbia). Running time: 108 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Matt Drayton), Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards, Roy E. Glenn, Sr., Isabel Sanford, Virginia Christine, Alexandra Hay, Barbara Randolph, D’Urville Martin, Tom Heaton, Grace Gaynor, Skip Martin, John Hudkins.
Notes and Sources
Frequently cited archives, collections, and libraries have been identified by the following abbreviations:
AADA American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York
AFI Louis B. Mayer Library, American Film Institute, Los Angeles