———. “Tough Guy—Huh?” Picturegoer, November 7, 1938.
Van Dyke, W. S. “They’ve Got Location Blues.” Screen Book, July 1937.
Wagner, Robert. “My Hat’s Off to Spencer Tracy.” Movie Mirror, July 1956.
Walsh, Larry. “Virtue’s Victim.” Screen Book, October 1939.
Waterbury, Ruth. “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better.” Modern Screen, May 1956.
Weller, Helen Hover. “Gratefully Yours, Spencer Tracy.” Movieland, January 1948.
Wilcox, Grace. “Injuns!” Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine, February 4, 1940.
Wolfenden, John. “Spencer Tracy as Seen by His Friends.” Australian Women’s Weekly, January 6, 1940.
Worth, Sheila. “Spencer Tracy’s Brother and Keeper.” Movie Mirror, September 1938. A heavily embellished account of Carroll Tracy’s relationship with his brother, probably derived mostly from previous articles; it’s doubtful the author talked with either Spencer or Carroll Tracy.
Wright, Tom. “When Spencer Tracy Was Seventeen.” Movies, August 1941.
Yates, Eva. “New Hope for the Deaf Child.” Collier’s, July 14, 1945.
Zeitlin, Ida. “Manuel the Lovable.” Modern Screen, October 1937.
———. “That Tracy-Gable Feud.” Movie Mirror, February 1938.
Zunner, Jesse. “Tracy: The Great Stone Face.” Cue, July 12, 1958.
Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abbott and Costello, 16.1, 16.2, 24.1
Abbott, Richard
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Ace, The
Actress, The, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1, 27.2, 30.1
Adams, Edie
Adams, Maude
Adam’s Rib, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 25.1, 26.1, 30.1
Addams, Dawn
Adelman, Joseph
Adler, Buddy, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4, 29.5, 29.6
Advise and Consent
Affair to Remember, An
Affairs of Cellini, The
African Queen, The, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1
After the Rain, see Painted Woman, The
Ager, Cecelia, 16.1, 16.2
Akins, Zoë
Albertson, Frank
Albertson, Lillian
Albiez, Harry
Aldrich, Winthrop
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Alessandro, Jose
Alexander, Dan
Alexander, John
Alexander, Katherine, 6.1, 6.2
Algiers, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Alibi Ike
Alice Adams
Alice in Wonderland
All About Eve
Allan, Elizabeth
Alldredge, Charles
Allen, Adrianne
Allen, Gracie
Allen, H. H.
Allenberg, Bert, 24.1, 24.2, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4, 27.5, 27.6, 27.7, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 28.5, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4, 29.5, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3
All the World Wondered, see Last Mile, The
Allvine, Glendon
Allwyn, Astrid
Allyson, June, 25.1, 32.1
Alpert, Don
Ameche, Don
American, The, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
American in Paris, An
Americanization of Emily, The
Amigo
Amos ’n Andy
Anders, Merry
Anderson, Donna, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, 30.5
Anderson, Maxwell, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 23.1
Anderson, Richard
Andersonville
Andersonville Trial, The
Angels in the Outfield
Angels With Dirty Faces, 14.1, 14.2
Anhalt, Edward
Anna Christie, 4.1, 16.1, 18.1
Another Language
Any Number Can Play
Apartment, The
Apron Strings
Ardmore, Jane Kesner, 15.1, 24.1, 34.1, 34.2
Are You a Mason?
Arlen, Michael
Arlen, Richard, 10.1, 28.1
Arliss, George, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1, 28.1
Arness, James
Arnold, Edward, 5.1, 11.1
Arnstein, Nicky
Around the World in 80 Days
Arsenic and Old Lace
Arthur, Jean
Ashley, Edward
Ashley, Elizabeth, 32.1, 32.2
Aslan, Gregoire
Astaire, Fred, 3.1, 5.1, 16.1, 20.1, 24.1, 25.1, 27.1, 29.1, 29.2
Astaire, Phyllis
Astor, Mary, 8.1, 22.1
As You Like It, 20.1, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 25.1
Atchley, Dr. Dana Winslow
Atkinson, J. Brooks, 5.1, 6.1, 26.1
Auchincloss, Louis
August, Joseph, 7.1, 7.2
Aumont, Jean-Pierre
Austin, Frank
Awful Truth, The
Aylmer, Felix
Ayres, Lew
Baby Cyclone, The (film)
Baby Cyclone, The (play), 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 11.1, 20.1
Bacall, Lauren, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 28.1, 29.1, 29.2, 30.1, 32.1, 33.1
Bachelor Father
Backer, George
Backus, Georgia
Bacon, James
Bad and the Beautiful, The, 27.1
Bad Day at Black Rock, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4, 27.5, 27.6, 27.7, 27.8, 28.1, 29.1, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1
Bad Girl
Bad Time at Honda, see Bad Day at Black Rock
Baggott, King
Bagnall, George
Bailey, Pearl
Baker, Belle
Baker, Carroll
Baker, Reginald “Snowy”, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 10.2
Bakewell, William
Balcon, Michael, 27.1, 32.1
Balderston, John L.
Ball, Lucille, 20.1, 20.2, 32.1
Ballard, Lucinda
Balmat, Charles
Balmat, Jacques
Bannister, Harry
Bannon
Bara, Theda
Barabbas, 26.1, 26.2
Barcellona, Marie
Barnes, George
Barnes, Howard
Barnes, Nancy
Barrat, Robert
Barrie, Elaine
Barrie, Mona
Barrie, Wendy
Barry, Ellen, 20.1, 20.2
Barry, Philip, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 30.1
Barrymore, Ethel, 1.1, 2.1, 9.1, 17.1, 19.1, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1
Barrymore, John, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 18.1, 20.1, 24.1, 29.1, 29.2, 30.1, 31.1, 32.1, 32.2
Barrymore, Lionel, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 22.1, 23.1, 32.1
Barter, Theodore
Bartholomew, Freddie, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1, 32.1
Bartlett, Sy
Bastian, Dr. Carl
Bat, The, 4.1, 4.2
Batista, Fulgencio
Batman, 33.1
Battleground
Bavu
Baxter, Warner, 7.1, 8.1
Beal, Mrs. Carl
Bearman, Joe
Beast of Berlin, The
Beauchamp, Clem
Beaudry, Yvonne, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2
Beaumont, Lucy
Beck, Meyer
Becket
Beery, Wallace, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1, 15.2, 19.1, 22.1, 25.1, 32.1
Before the Sun Goes Down
Beggers of Life
Beginning or the End, The
Begley, Ed
Behar, Carolyn Rothstein
Behind the Front
Behrman, S. N., 7.1, 15.1, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2
Beilinson, Lawrence
Belasco, David
Bell, James, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Bellamy, Ralph, 8.
1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 15.1, 22.1
Belser, Lee
Belzer, Gladys, 9.1, 11.1
Benchley, Robert, 11.1, 32.1
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Ben-Hur
Bennett, Constance
Bennett, Joan, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 9.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 28.1
Benny, Jack, 24.1, 32.1, 34.1
Benthall, Michael, 27.1, 27.2
Beresford, Harry
Berg, A. Scott
Berg, Phil
Bergman, Ingrid, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 23.1, 23.2, 27.1, 28.1, 29.1
Berkeley, Busby
Berkeley, Reginald
Berkeley Square (film)
Berkeley Square (play)
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving, 1.1, 5.1, 13.1, 20.1
Berman, Pandro S., 19.1, 19.2, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Bernhardt, Sarah, 2.1, 33.1
Bernstein, Leah
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Best People, The
Best Years of Our Lives, The, 21.1
Betjeman, John
B.F.’s Daughter, 22.1, 22.2
Bickford, Charles
Big City, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Big Deal, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3
Bigelow, Joe
Big House, The, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Big Show, The
Big Town
Big Trail, The
Bill of Divorcement, A
Bishoff, Samuel,
Black Fury
Blake, Michael,
Blake, Robert, 6.1, 6.2
Blandick, Clara, 9.1, 9.2
Blankfort, Michael, 27.1, 27.2, 30.1
Blashfield, Edwin
Block, Ralph
Blondell, Joan, 29.1, 29.2, 34.1
Bloomingdale, Hiram
Blossom Time
Blue Angel, The, 29.1, 29.2
Blue Heaven
Blum, Edwin Harvey
Blystone, John G., 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Bob Cummings Show, The
Boehnel, William, 12.1, 15.1, 18.1
Bogart, Humphrey, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 16.1, 22.1, 22.2, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1, 27.2, 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, 29.2, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2, 33.1
Bogdanovich, Peter, 6.1, 11.1
Bohlman, Meta
Boland, Bridget, 30.1, 30.2
Bolin, Erik
Bolton, Guy
Bolton, Whitney
Bombers B-52
Bonaventure, Mother
Bond, Johnny
Bond, Ward
Bondi, Beulah, 1.1, 13.1
Boody, Henry Phillips, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Boom Town, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 17.1, 22.1
Booth, Earle, 4.1, 4.2
Booth, Shirley, 26.1, 29.1
Bootleggers, The, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Borden, Lizzie
Borgnine, Ernest, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3
Born Yesterday, 21.1, 23.1
Borzage, Frank, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 25.1
Borzage, Ray
Bosworth, Halliam, 1.1, 4.1
Bottoms Up, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1
Bought and Paid For
Boundry Line, The
Bow, Clara, 8.1, 10.1
Bowron, Fletcher
Boyd, Jimmy, 30.1, 30.2
Boyd, William
Boyd, William “Stage”, 5.1, 7.1
Boyer, Charles, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 23.1
Boyer, Cliff
Boys Town, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 24.1, 30.1, 33.1, 33.2, 34.1
Brackett, Charles, 13.1, 29.1, 29.2
Bradford, Jack
Brady, Alice
Branch, Dr. William
Brandt, Willy
Brando, Marlon, 30.1, 30.2
Brandt, Harry
Breen, Joseph I., 18.1, 19.1, 19.2
Breen, Tommy
Breese, Edmund
Bremer, Edward G., and
Bren, Milton
Brendel, El, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Brennan, Walter, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3
Brent, George
Brent, Olga
Breslin, Howard
Brice, Fannie, 12.1, 22.1
Brick Foxhole, The, see Crossfire
Bridge on the River Kwai, The, 32.1
Bridges, Lloyd
Briskin, Irving
Briskin, Sam, 9.1, 22.1, 23.1, 30.1, 30.2
Britton, Layne
Broadhurst, George, 1.1, 1.2
Broadway
Broken Lance, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4, 27.5, 27.6, 27.7, 28.1
Bronson, Arthur
Brooks, Phyllis
Brooks, Richard
Brophy, Edward, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 30.1, 34.1
Brower, Otto
Brown, Abigail, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Brown, Caleb Wescott
Brown, Caroline, see Tracy, Caroline
Brown, Chamberlain, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Brown, Clarence, 16.1, 22.1, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 25.5, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1, 29.1
Brown, Emma, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 14.1, 18.1, 20.1, 21.1, 25.1, 30.1
Brown, Edward S., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 18.1
Brown, Frank
Brown, George, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3
Brown, John Mason
Brown, Johnny Mack
Brown, Katherine, 16.1, 18.1
Brown, Nicholas
Brown, Rowland, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Brown, Sam
Browne, Florence
Browning, Geraldine
Bruce, Carter
Bruce, Virginia, 11.1, 11.2
Brush, Katharine
Bryan, William Jennings, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, 30.5
Bryant, Lester
Buck, Gene
Buckingham, Tom, 7.1, 7.2
Bucquet, Harold
Buddies, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1
Budge, Don
Bullard, Donna
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, 9.1, 9.2
Bumby, J. Harold, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 16.1, 16.2, 34.1
Burke, Billie
Burke, Edwin, 9.1, 9.2
Burns, Bob, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1
Burns, George, 9.1, 30.1, 34.1
Burns, Marion
Burns, Robert, see Burns, Bob
Butler, Dan
Butler, David, 7.1, 9.1
Butler, Hugo, 14.1, 16.1
Butler, Jimmy
Byington, Spring
Byron, Arthur
By the People
Caesar and Cleopatra, 24.1, 25.1
Caesar, Sid, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4
Cagney, James, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 25.1, 27.1, 28.1, 29.1, 30.1, 30.2, 33.1, 33.2
Cahn, Sammy
Cain, Andrew
Caine Mutiny, The, 27.1, 27.2, 30.1
Caldwell, Audrey, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 19.1, 19.2
Caldwell, David, 15.1, 17.1
Caldwell, June, 14.1, 23.1
Caldwell, Orville, 10.1, 15.1, 17.1
Calhern, Louis, 8.1, 26.1
Calhoun, Bertha, 2.1, 2.2, 20.1, 30.1, 34.1
Calleia, Joseph
Call Me Madame
Call of the Wild
Callow, Ridgeway “Reggie”, 7.1, 7.2, 25.1, 25.2
Camel Caravan
Camelot
Camille
Campbell, Maurice
Campbell, Stan
Campbell, William
Cannon, Jimmy
Cantinflas
Cantor, Eddie, 9.1, 10.1, 22.1
Caplan, Harry, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4
Capote, Truman
Capp, Raymond
Capra, Frank, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 30.1,
30.2, 30.3
Captains Courageous, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 23.1, 30.1, 30.2, 32.1, 34.1
Captain’s Table, The, 27.1, 27.2
Carey, Harry
Carle, Cecil “Teet”, 11.1, 28.1, 29.1
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie, Dale
Carney, Alan
Carr, Joe
Carr, Nadine, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1, 29.1
Carradine, John, 12.1, 29.1
Carré, Ben, 7.1, 10.1
Carrie
Carrigan, Tom,
Carrillo, Leo, 6.1, 11.1
Carroll, Harrison, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 19.1
Carroll, Leo G.
Cassini, Oleg
Cass Timberlane, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 30.1
Cat and Mouse, 26.1, 26.2
Cat and the Canary, The, 4.1, 4.2
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 30.1, 30.2
Cavalcade, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Ceccarini, Olindo
Ceiling Zero
Cermak, Anton
Chains of Dew
Champ, The
Champion
Champlin, Charles, 33.1, 33.2
Chaney, Lon, 9.1, 27.1
Chaplin, Charles, 9.1, 9.2, 18.1, 22.1, 24.1
Chaplin, Oona
Chapman, John, 16.1, 17.1, 21.1
Charisse, Cyd
Charley’s Aunt, 1.1, 3.1
Chase and Sanborn Hour, The
Chase, Clarence
Chase, Ilka
Chasen, Dave
Chauvent, Virginia
Chayefsky, Paddy, 32.1, 32.2
Cheever, John
Chennault, Gen. Claire,
Chevalier, Maurice, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1
Cheyenne Autumn, 32.1, 32.2
Chicago, 6.1, 6.2
Chicken Feed
“Child Is Waiting, A”
Chorpenning, Charlotte
Christie, Audrey, 18.1, 18.2
Christie, Gus, 2.1, 16.1
Christopher Strong
Christy, Eileen
Church, Frederick E.
Churchill, Douglas, 8.1, 11.1
Churchill, Winston, 18.1, 26.1
Cincinnati Kid, The, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3
Cinerama Holiday
Citadel, The, 14.1, 15.1
Citizen Kane, 17.1, 18.1
City of Little Men
Clark, Bobby
Clark, Tom
Clarke, Donald Henderson
Clarke, Harley, 7.1, 8.1
Clarke, Mae
Clatworthy, Robert
Claw, The
Clemens, Paul
Clifford, Ruth
Clift, Montgomery, 21.1, 27.1, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4, 31.5, 31.6
Clooney, Rosemary
Close, Adelaide Brevoort
Cobb, Lee J.
Cock-Eyed World, The
Coffee, Lenore
Cohan, George M., 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 18.1, 21.1, 24.1, 25.1, 30.1, 31.1, 33.1
Cohan, Helen Costigan,
Cohen, George
Cohn, Harry, 8.1, 9.1, 23.1, 29.1
Cohn, Joseph J., 18.1, 27.1, 32.1, 34.1
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