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Spencer Tracy
“The kids keep telling me I should try this new ‘Method Acting’ but I’m too old, I’m too tired, and I’m too talented to care.” –Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 5, 1900. As a child, Tracy was considered difficult and overactive, with sporadic school attendance. His mother came from a wealthy Presbyterian family, while his father was Irish Catholic and worked as a truck salesman. Tracy also had a brother named Carroll, who was four years older.
Tracy was raised Catholic and educated by Dominican nuns. He conceded to learning because he wanted to be able to read movie subtitles and movies fascinated him immensely. Tracy would view certain films frequently so that he could reenact scenes with his friends.
Over the years, Tracy attended several schools in the Milwaukee area, which included Trowbridge Elementary School, among several others. As a teenager, Tracy attended various Jesuit academies and his grades improved. He later attended Marquette Academy, where he met future actor Pat O’Brien. The two started attending plays together, causing Tracy to develop an interest in theater.
Spencer, his mother Caroline, and Carroll
Tracy enlisted in the Navy when he tu
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A Humble Man
CHAPTER 34
The last time she saw him was in profile. He was laid out in an open casket for the Rosary on Sunday night. His strong Irish face had diminished with the years, the thick brown hair of his youth now white and closely cropped. Both Susie and Louise remarked on how much better he looked than he had the previous morning. Had the mortician touched him up? Given him the coating of base he had tried to avoid his entire professional life? The scene seemed surreal, formal, quiet, and airless, not at all like Knocko Minihan’s wake, where he might have been more at home, Jimmy Gleason greeting the guests, Ed Brophy, Frank McHugh, and Wally Ford mingling among them, keeping the liquor flowing and passing the hat for the widow. There were a lot of flowers on display, bushels of them, and Dorothy went around checking the tags. On some of the arrangements the tags had been removed, and she found later that these were the tributes Katharine Hepburn had sent. Earlier, Kate had come to the vigil and she had placed a little painting of flowers under his feet.
The priest led the mourners in prayer for the soul of the departed, candles flanking the casket, a gold crucifix on display. After the service he approached Louise and Susie and said that they could eithe
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Acknowledgments
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