Spencer Tracy

Name: Spencer Tracy
Brand: Cornerstone

Cornerstone

Spencer TracyAuthor(s): James Curtis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornerstone, United Kingdom\nImprint: Arrow Books Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780099547297, 978-0099547297\nSynopsis\nDuring his lifetime, Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood's 'actor's actor'. Critics wrote that what Olivier was to theatre, Tracy was to film. Over his career he was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won two. But there has been no substantial, intimate biography of the man, until now. \n\nFrom his earliest days in stock theatre, Tracy was a publicist's trial, guarding his private life fiercely. \nMost of the people associated closely with him shunned the limelight - notably his wife, his children and the great actress Katharine Hepburn, with whom he had an affair that lasted over 26 years. \n\nAlthough his screen roles often depicted a happy, twinkling Irishman, Tracy struggled with alchoholism to the end, a fact which the studios managed to keep out of the papers.\n\nWith the help of Tracy's daughter, Susie.