LIBELED LADY
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Jack Conway. Story: Wallace Sullivan. Screenplay: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer. Music: Dr. William Axt. Song: “You” (music: Walter Donaldson; lyrics: Harold Adamson). Photography: Norbert Brodine. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: October 9, 1936. Running time: 98 minutes. Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy (William Haggerty), Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, Cora Witherspoon, E. E. Clive, Lauri Beatty, Otto Yamaoka, Charles Trowbridge, Spencer Charters, George Chandler, William Benedict, Hal K. Dawson, William Newell.
YE MERRY GENTLEMEN
Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: Christmas season, 1936. Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, William Powell.
THEY GAVE HIM A GUN
Producer: Harry Rapf. Director: W. S. Van Dyke II. Based upon the novel by William Joyce Cowen. Screenplay: Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Maurice Rapf. Song: “A Love Song of Long Ago” (music: Sigmund Romberg; lyrics: Gus Kahn). Montage effects: Slavko Vorkapich. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Ben Lewis. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 7, 1937. Running time: 97 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Fred Willis), Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Edgar Dearing, Mary Lou Treen, Cliff Edwards, Charles Trowbridge.
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
Producer: Louis D. Lighton. Director: Victor Fleming (uncredited: Jack Conway). Based upon the novel by Rudyard Kipling. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every (uncredited: Harvey Gates, Tom Kilpatrick). Music: Franz Waxman. Songs: “Ooh, What a Terrible Man,” “Don’t Cry Little Fish” (music: Franz Waxman; lyrics: Gus Kahn). Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Elmo Veron. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: June 25, 1937. Rereleased: 1946, 1962, 1973 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 118 minutes. Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy (Manuel), Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charley Grapewin, Mickey Rooney, John Carradine, Oscar O’Shea, Jack LaRue, Walter Kingsford, Donald Briggs, Sam McDaniels, Billy Burrud.
BIG CITY
Producer: Norman Krasna. Director: Frank Borzage (uncredited: George B. Seitz). Story: Norman Krasna. Screenplay: Dore Schary, Hugo Butler (uncredited: Horace McCoy). Music: Dr. William Axt. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg (uncredited: Clyde De Vinna). Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 3, 1937. Running time: 80 minutes. Cast: Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy (Joe Benton), Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher, Eddie Quillan, Victor Varconi, Oscar O’Shea, Helen Troy, William Demarest, John Arledge, Irving Bacon, Guinn Williams, Regis Toomey, Edgar Dearing, Paul Harvey, Andrew J. Tombes, Clem Bevans, Grace Ford, Alice White. As themselves: Jack Dempsey, James J. Jeffries, Jimmy McLarnin, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jim Thorpe, Frank Wykoff, Jackie Fields, Man Mountain Dean, Gus Sonnenberg, George Godfrey, Joe Rivers, Cotton Warburton, Bull Montana, Snowy Baker, Taski Hagio.
MANNEQUIN
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: Frank Borzage. Story: Katharine Brush. Screenplay: Lawrence Hazard. Music: Edward Ward. Song: “Always and Always” (music: Edward Ward; lyrics: Bob Wright, Chet Forrest). Photography: George Folsey. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: January 21, 1938. Running time: 95 minutes. Cast: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy (John L. Hennessey), Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan, Mary Phillips, Oscar O’Shea, Elizabeth Risdon, Leo Gorcey.
HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT
Tracy is caricatured in this one-reel Merrie Melodie, produced in color by Leon Schlesinger and released by the Vitaphone Corporation on April 2, 1938.
TEST PILOT
Producer: Louis D. Lighton. Director: Victor Fleming. Story: Frank Wead. Screenplay: Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young. Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Ray June. Editor: Tom Held. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 22, 1938. Running time: 120 minutes. Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy (Gunner), Lionel Barrymore, Samuel S. Hinds, Marjorie Main, Ted Pearson, Gloria Holden, Louis Jean Heydt, Virginia Grey, Priscilla Lawson, Claudia Coleman, Arthur Aylesworth.
ANOTHER ROMANCE OF CELLULOID
Producer: Frank Whitbeck. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 1938. Running time: 10 minutes. Cast: Norma Shearer, W. S. Van Dyke, Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Clark Gable.
Note: Tracy is seen with Gable and Loy on the M-G-M lot.
HOLLYWOOD GOES TO TOWN (M-G-M MINIATURE)
Director: Herman Hoffman. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: August 1938. Running time: 9 minutes.
Note: Tracy is one of the many stars seen arriving for the premiere of M-G-M’s Marie Antoinette at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.
BOYS TOWN
Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Associate producer: O. O. Dull. Director: Norman Taurog. Story: Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin. Screenplay: John Meehan, Dore Schary (uncredited: Jack Mintz). Music: Edward Ward. Photography: Sidney Wagner. Editor: Elmo Veron. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 9, 1938. Rereleased: 1957 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running Time: 93 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Father Edward Flanagan), Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris, Addison Richards, Minor Watson, Jonathan Hale, Bobs Watson, Martin Spellman, Mickey Rentschler, Frankie Thomas, Jimmy Butler, Sidney Miller, Robert Emmett Keane, Victor Kilian, Boys Town A Cappella Choir.
MOTHER GOOSE GOES HOLLYWOOD
Tracy is caricatured in this one-reel Silly Symphony, produced in color by Walt Disney and released by RKO-Radio Pictures on December 23, 1938.
FOR AULD LANG SYNE NO. 4
Will Rogers National Theatre Week, Major L. E. Thompson, Chairman. Production: 20th Century-Fox. Distribution: all major exchanges. Release date: April 29, 1939. Running time: 10 minutes. Cast: Raymond Massey, Spencer Tracy, Deanna Durbin, Robert Emmet Sherwood, Lowell Thomas.
Note: Tracy participates in this fourth annual appeal for the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in Saranac Lake, New York.
HOLLYWOOD HOBBIES
Producer: Louis Lewyn. Director: George Sidney. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 3, 1939. Running time: 10 minutes. Cast: Joyce Compton, Sally Payne, William Benedict.
Note: Tracy is briefly glimpsed as one of the many stars attending a celebrity baseball game at Gilmore Field in Los Angeles.
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTON
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Associate producer: Kenneth Macgowan. Director: Henry King. (Safari episodes: Otto Brower.) Dialogue director: Lionel Bevans. Story: Hal Long, Sam Hellman. Screenplay: Philip Dunne, Julian Josephson. Music: Louis Silvers. Photography: George Barnes (Safari episodes: Sidney Wagner). Editor: Barbara McLean. Production and distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release date: August 18, 1939. Rereleased: 1947 (20th Century-Fox). Running time: 101 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Henry M. Stanley), Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Miles Mander, David Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Montague Shaw, Brandon Hurst, Hassan Said, Paul Harvey, Russell Hicks, Frank Dae.
AFRICA SQUEAKS
Tracy is caricatured in this one-reel Looney Tune, produced by Leon Schlesinger and released by the Vitaphone Corporation on January 27, 1940.
I TAKE THIS WOMAN
Producers: Lawrence Weingarten, Bernard H. Hyman. Director: W. S. Van Dyke II (uncredited: Josef von Sternberg, Frank Borzage). Story: Charles MacArthur. Screenplay: James Kevin McGuinness (uncredited: John Meehan, John McClain). Music: Bronislau Kaper, Arthur Guttmann. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: George Boemler. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 2, 1940. Running time: 97 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Dr. Karl Decker), Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Jack Carson, Paul Cavanagh, Louis Calhern, Frances Drake, Marjori
e Main, George E. Stone, Willie Best, Don Castle, Dalies Frantz, Reed Hadley.
NORTHWARD, HO! (M-G-M MINIATURE)
Director: Harry Loud. Screenplay: Herman Hoffman. Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof. Photography: Jackson Rose. Editor: Roy Brickner. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 23, 1940. Running Time: 10 minutes.
Note: Tracy is seen in this promotional short about how the studio prepares to send a company on location, in this case for Northwest Passage.
NORTHWEST PASSAGE (BOOK I—ROGERS’ RANGERS)
Producer: Hunt Stromberg. Director: King Vidor (uncredited: Norman Foster, Jack Conway). Based upon the novel by Kenneth Roberts. Screenplay: Laurence Stallings, Talbot Jennings. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Sidney Wagner, William V. Skall (Technicolor). Editor: Conrad A. Nervig. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 23, 1940. Rereleased: 1956 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 125 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Major Robert Rogers), Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Louis Hector, Robert Barrat, Lumsden Hare, Donald McBride, Isabel Jewell, Douglas Walton, Addison Richards, Hugh Sothern, Regis Toomey, Montagu Love, Lester Matthews, Truman Bradley.
EDISON, THE MAN
Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Associate producer: Orville O. Dull. Director: Clarence Brown. Story: Dore Schary, Hugo Butler. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings, Bradbury Foote. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 10, 1940. Running time: 111 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Thomas A. Edison), Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers, Felix Bressart, Peter Godfrey, Guy D’Ennery, Byron Foulger, Milton Parsons, Arthur Aylesworth, Gene Reynolds, Addison Richards, Grant Mitchell, Paul Hurst, George Lessey, Jay Ward, Ann Gillis.
Note: Tracy is seen in a promotional announcement for this film at the end of Young Tom Edison (1940).
BOOM TOWN
Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: Jack Conway. Montage sequences: John Hoffman. Based upon the story “A Lady Comes to Burkburnett,” by James Edward Grant. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin (uncredited: Lawrence Hazard). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Blanche Sewell. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: August 30, 1940. Rereleased: 1946, 1956 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 117 minutes. Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy (Square John Sand), Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Chill Wills, Marion Martin, Minna Gombell, Joe Yule, Horace Murphy, Roy Gordon, Richard Lane, Casey Johnson, Baby Quintanilla, George Lessey, Sara Haden, Frank Orth, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Curt Bois.
MEN OF BOYS TOWN
Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Director: Norman Taurog. Screenplay: James K. McGuinness. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 11, 1941. Running time: 106 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Father Edward Flanagan), Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, Larry Nunn, Darryl Hickman, Henry O’Neill, Mary Nash, Lee J. Cobb, Sidney Miller, Addison Richards, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Emmett Keane, Arthur Hohl, Ben Weldon, Anne Revere.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Producer: Victor Saville. Director: Victor Fleming. Montage sequences: Peter Ballbusch. Based upon the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin (uncredited: John L. Balderston, Paul Osborn). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Editor: Harold F. Kress. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 5, 1941. Rereleased: 1954 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 127 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde), Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Peter Godfrey, Sara Allgood, Frederic Worlock, William Tannen, Frances Robinson, Denis Green, Billy Bevan, Forrester Harvey, Lumsden Hare, Lawrence Grant, John Barclay.
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: George Stevens. Screenplay: Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin (uncredited: Garson Kanin, John Lee Mahin). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 13, 1942. Running time: 112 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Sam Craig), Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson, William Bendix, Gladys Blake, Dan Tobin, Roscoe Karns, William Tannen, Ludwig Stossel, Sara Haden, Edith Evanson, George Kezas.
RING OF STEEL
Producer: Philip Martin, Jr. Director: Garson Kanin. Screenplay: Wallace Russell. Music: Morton Gould. Photography: Carl Pryer, Louis Tumola, Ray Foster. Editor: Robert Jahns. Narration: Spencer Tracy. Production: Office for Emergency Management, Film Unit. Distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: April 2, 1942. Running time: 9 minutes.
TORTILLA FLAT
Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: Victor Fleming. Based upon the novel by John Steinbeck. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Benjamin Glazer (uncredited: Paul Osborn). Music: Franz Waxman. Lyrics: Frank Loesser. Photography: Karl Freund. Editor: James E. Newcom. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 22, 1942. Running time: 105 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Pilon), Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, Sheldon Leonard, John Qualen, Donald Meek, Connie Gilchrist, Allen Jenkins, Henry O’Neill, Mercedes Ruffino, Nina Campana, Arthur Space, Betty Wells, Harry Burns.
KEEPER OF THE FLAME
Producer: Victor Saville. Associate producer: Leon Gordon. Director: George Cukor. Based upon the novel by I.A.R. Wylie. Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart (uncredited: Leon Gordon). Music: Bronislau Kaper. Photography: William Daniels. Editor: James E. Newcom. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 5, 1943. Running time: 100 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Steven O’Malley), Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Frank Craven, Horace McNally, Percy Kilbride, Audrey Christie, Darryl Hickman, Donald Meek, Howard Da Silva, William Newell.
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Release date: 1943. Cast: Spencer Tracy.
A GUY NAMED JOE
Producer: Everett Riskin. Director: Victor Fleming. Story: Chandler Sprague, David Boehm. Adaptation: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. Music: Herbert Stothart. Song: “I’ll Get By”(music: Fred E. Ahlert; lyrics: Roy Turk). Song: “I’ll See You in My Dreams” (music: Isham Jones; lyrics: Gus Kahn). Photography: George Folsey, Karl Freund. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: March 10, 1944. Rereleased: 1955 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 121 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Pete Sandidge), Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore, Barry Nelson, Esther Williams, Henry O’Neill, Don DeFore, Charles Smith, Addison Richards.
THE SEVENTH CROSS
Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Fred Zinnemann. Based upon the novel by Anna Seghers (as translated by James A. Galston). Screenplay: Helen Deutsch. Music: Roy Webb. Photography: Karl Freund. Editor: Thomas Richards. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 1, 1944. Running time: 113 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (George Heisler), Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead, Herbert Rudley, Felix Bressart, Ray Collins, Alexander Granach, Katherine Locke, George Macready, Paul Guilfoyle, Steven Geray, Kurt Hatch, Kaaren Verne, Konstantin Shayne, George Suzanne, John Wengraf, George Zucco, Steven Muller, Eily Malyon.
HIS NEW WORLD
Director: Frank Whitbeck. Narration: Spencer Tracy. Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Distribution: War Activities Committee—Motion Picture Industry. Release date: none determined. Running time: 10 minutes.
Note: Tracy narrated this short film designed to promote interest in the Army and Navy Air Corps Enlisted Reserves. The Dialogue Cutting Continuity in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer script collection at USC is dated September 14, 1944, but no record of release can be found.
TOMORROW, JOHN JONES!
> Producer: Jerry Bresler. Director: Harry Beaumont. Screenplay: Carey Wilson. Music: Max Terr, Nathaniel Shilkret. Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (for the Canadian Motion Picture War Services Committee). Release date: October 23, 1944. Running time: 15 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Sergeant Major John Jones), Phyllis Thaxter, Fay Holden, Hank Daniels.
Note: Tomorrow, John Jones! was the official Seventh Victory Loan film for Canada.
THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO
Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Based upon the book by Captain Ted W. Lawson and Robert Considine. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. Music: Herbert Stothart. Song: “I Love You” (music and lyrics: Art and Kay Fitch, Bert Lowe). Song: “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (music: Don Swander; lyrics: June Hershey). Photography: Harold Rosson, Robert Surtees. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: December 5, 1944. Rereleased: 1955 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 138 minutes. Cast: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Don DeFore, Gordon McDonald, Phyllis Thaxter, Horace McNally, John R. Reilly, Robert Mitchum, Scott McKay, Donald Curtis, Louis Jean Heydt, William “Bill” Phillips, Douglas Cowan, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Bill Williams, Robert Bice, Dr. Hsin Kung, Benson Fong, Ching Wah Lee, Alan Napier, Ann Shoemaker, Dorothy Ruth Morris, Jacqueline White, Selena Royle, Spencer Tracy (Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle).
WITHOUT LOVE
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Harold S. Bucquet. Based upon the play by Philip Barry. Screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart (uncredited: Samson Raphaelson, Dorothy Kingsley). Music: Bronislau Kaper. Photography: Karl Freund. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 4, 1945. Running time: 111 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Pat Jamieson), Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond, Patricia Morison, Felix Bressart, Emily Massey, Gloria Grahame, George Davis, George Chandler, Clancy Cooper.
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