STADT IN ANGST-USA 1955-THRILLER-DEUTSCH-MIT SPENCER TRACY (Kann 2024)
Spencer Tracy, in vollem Umfang Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (geboren am 5. April 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - gestorben am 10. Juni 1967 in Beverly Hills, Kalifornien), ein grob behauener amerikanischer Filmstar, der einer der größten männlichen Hauptdarsteller Hollywoods und der erste war Schauspieler erhält zwei aufeinanderfolgende Oscar-Preise für den besten Schauspieler.
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Als Jugendlicher langweilte sich Tracy mit Schularbeiten und trat im Alter von 17 Jahren der US Navy bei. Trotz seiner Abneigung gegen Akademiker wurde er schließlich ein erstklassiger Student am Ripon College in Wisconsin. Während er dort war, sprach er vor und gewann eine Rolle im Anfangsspiel und entdeckte, dass das Schauspielern mehr nach seinem Geschmack als nach der Medizin war. 1922 ging er nach New York City, wo er und sein Freund Pat O'Brien sich an der American Academy of Dramatic Arts einschrieben. Im selben Jahr feierten beide Männer ihr gemeinsames Broadway-Debüt und spielten in Karel Čapeks RUR eine kleine Rolle als Roboter. In den nächsten acht Jahren wechselte Tracy zwischen den Rollen in kurzen Broadway-Spielen und den Hauptrollen in regionalen Aktiengesellschaften und erlangte schließlich Berühmtheit, wenn Er wurde als Todestraktinsasse Killer Mears in dem Broadway-Hit The Last Mile von 1930 besetzt. Anschließend trat er in zwei Vitaphone-Kurzfächern auf,aber er war unzufrieden mit sich selbst und pessimistisch über seine Chancen auf Bildschirmstar.
Nevertheless, director John Ford hired Tracy to star in the 1930 feature film Up the River, which resulted in a five-year stay at Fox Studios in Hollywood. Although few of his Fox films were memorable—excepting perhaps Me and My Gal (1932), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), and The Power and the Glory (1933)—his tenure at the studio enabled him to develop his uncanny ability to act without ever appearing to be acting. His friend Humphrey Bogart once attempted to describe the elusive Tracy technique: “[You] don’t see the mechanism working, the wheels turning. He covers up. He never overacts or is hammy. He makes you believe what he is playing.” For his part, Tracy always denied that he had come up with any sort of magic formula. Whenever he was asked the secret of great acting, he usually snapped, “Learn your lines!”
In 1935 he was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he would do some of his best work, beginning with his harrowing performance as a lynch-mob survivor in Fritz Lang’s Fury (1936). He received his first of nine Oscar nominations for San Francisco (1936) and became the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards, for his performance as the Portuguese fisherman Manuel in Captains Courageous (1937) and for his role as the priest who founded the eponymous facility in Boys Town (1938). In the course of his two decades at MGM he settled gracefully into character leads, conveying everything from paternal bemusement in Father of the Bride (1950) to grim determination in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). In later years his health was eroded by respiratory ailments and a lifelong struggle with alcoholism, but Tracy worked into the early 1960s, delivering exceptionally powerful performances in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind (1960) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).
Married since 1923 to former actress Louise Treadwell, Tracy lived apart from his wife throughout most of their marriage, though as a strict Roman Catholic he refused to consider divorce. From 1942 onward, he maintained a warm, intimate relationship with actress Katharine Hepburn. Tracy and Hepburn were also memorably teamed in nine films, including Woman of the Year (1942), Adam’s Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), Desk Set (1957), and Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), which was completed three weeks before Tracy’s death.
