Spencer Tracy News

Via Glenn Reynolds , here is a list of what are characterized as the "Top 10 Manly Movie Deaths", rare cinematic moments where an emotional response is justified a ' times when a worthy male protagonist dies a noble and/or tragic death following a great and just struggle What constitutes a "manly death"? I'm reminded of the phrase from Macaulay: ...

" TRACY ," a one-man play about the life of Spencer Tracy, has been rescheduled for July 17 and 18 at 8 p.m., and July 19 at 2 p.m. in downtown New Bern's Athens Theatre.

Dear Mick LaSalle: How come none of the critics noticed the exact image of the elder Spencer Tracy as the lead character in "Up"? Bob Lipman, San Francisco Dear Bob Lipman: I noticed, but I had only 20 inches, and it didn't seem worth mentioning, once I saw that the character didn't have anything to do with Tracy.

SciFi's upcoming series, "Warehouse 13? looked to the screwball comedies of the golden age of Hollywood for inspiration in creating the character dynamic in the series producers Jack Kennedy and David Simkins told SciFi Wire.

That film is a collaborative art is accepted, but it can also be a war of attrition where inflated egos collide at the interface of culture and commerce.

The annual Downtown Lawrence Film Festival starts this Thursday with a showing of "Woman of the Year," a 1940s film starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

Ever wonder how Dirty Harry - or, for that matter, any of Clint Eastwood's famous movie tough guys - would handle his retirement years? In a way, Eastwood's entertaining "Gran Torino" answers that question.

The personal theatrical papers of Katharine Hepburn , which were acquired by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in 2007, will be on view for the first time in the new library exhibition, Katharine Hepburn : In Her Own Files, opening Wednesday, June 10.

Pixar's newest is the best yet; plus, fantastic classics in Berkeley, San Francisco, and San Rafael.

As 'WALL E' did last year, the Pixar animated movie 'Up' opens with a long, lingering homage to times gone by. We see a young, cherubic boy named Carl Fredricksen gape in wonder in a 1930s movie palace, watching a newsreel about an adventurer with the dash of Valentino and the mustache of Errol Flynn. On his way home from the movies, Carl meets a fellow fan of the daring screen hero, a gap-toothed spitfire named Ellie. And then, moments later, begins the most sublime passage of 'Up': a silent four-minute series of scenes that exquisitely capture the couple's young love, marriage, hopes, dreams and heartbreaks, and a sequence worthy of Chaplin in its poignancy and grace.

Veteran actor Paul White returns to the New Bern Civic Theatre in a familiar format for him - a one-man play.

Duration: 2:8:11 CC Taken largely from the transcripts of the actual "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925, this movie features Oscar nominee Spencer Tracy as defense attorney Henry Drummond , and Frederic March as prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady .

Stewart graduated from Princeton University with a degree in architecture and became part of the University Players at Falmouth, Massachusetts, joining such future film actors as Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan.

" The Con Film Festival ," a two-week, twenty-one film series of prison movies, spotlighting cons, ex-cons and other incarcerated outcasts, runs at Film Forum through Thursday, 21 May 2009.

I read Walter Addiego's interview with William Wellman Jr. . You can tell him that the fight between William A. Wellman Sr.

More than 40 years before we elected a black president - " who is himself the product of an interracial marriage - " Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn tackled the then-tricky topic in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

YES, they do show prison movies in prison. So reports Dawson Brown, acting superintendent of that famous prison in Ossining, who will participate in a panel discussion following a showing of "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" to a less captive audience in the city Wednesday.

Downtown's outdoor movie series begins its 10th season tonight with "Adam's Rib," a 1949 comedy starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

HOLLYWOODa 'HELLO AMERICA! I recently did an hour radio interview with Jeff Brown, a man who thoroughly enjoys discussing the old days in Hollywood.

Movie sets have always been ripe breeding grounds for romantic relationships. Part of Hollywood's grand allure is that its history is studded with fantastic romances - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall - though most give way to failed relationships.