MEET SPENCER TRACY

*Fact Or Fiction:  Although the oldest player on the team Spencer has the record of the most "hat-tricks" in hockey history.

Hats off to Spence!

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 - June 10, 1967) was an American film actor who appeared in 74 films from the 1930s through the 1960s.  In the early 1920s he attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.  In 1930, director John Ford saw him in the play The Last Mile and signed him to do Up the River for Fox Pictures. Shortly after that he and his family moved to Hollywood, where he made over 35 films in 5 years. In 1935 he signed with MGM and won the Oscar for Best Actor two years in a row, for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).  He was also nominated for San Francisco (1936), Father of the Bride (1950), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). In 1941 he began a relationship with Katharine Hepburn. Thirty years after his death, Tracy is still considered by many to be the most skillful actor of his time. He could portray the hero, the villain, or the comedian, and make the audience believe he truly was the character he played.

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