Lee Tracy

Lee Tracy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American actor. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 1964 film The Best Man. In 1929, Tracy arrived in Hollywood, where he played the role of newspapermen in several films. He, for example, played a Walter Winchell-type gossip columnist in Blessed Event (1932). Tracy also starred as the columnist in Advice to the Lovelorn (1933), very loosely based on the novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West; and he played a conscience-stricken editor in the 1943 drama The Power of the Press, based on a story by former newspaperman Samuel Fuller. Tracy played "The Buzzard," the criminal who leads Liliom (Charles Farrell) into a fatal robbery, in the film version of Liliom (1930). He also played Lupe Vélez's frenetic manager in Gregory LaCava's The Half-Naked Truth (1932) and portrayed John Barrymore's agent in Dinner at Eight (1933), directed by George Cukor. Lee Tracy's flourishing film career was temporarily disrupted on 19 November 1933, while he was on location in Mexico filming the Wallace Beery vehicle Viva Villa! According to the actor and producer Desi Arnaz, in his published autobiography The Book (1976), Tracy stood on a balcony in Mexico City and urinated down onto a passing military parade. Elsewhere in his autobiography, Arnaz claims that from then on, if one watched other crowds of spectators, they would visibly disperse any time an American stepped out onto a balcony. However, other crew members there at the time disputed this story, giving a sharply different account of events. In his autobiography, Charles G. Clarke, the cinematographer on the picture, said that he was standing outside the hotel during the parade and the incident never happened. Tracy, he said, was standing on the balcony observing the parade when a Mexican in the street below made an obscene gesture at him. Tracy replied in kind; and the next day a local newspaper printed a story that, in effect, Tracy had insulted Mexico, Mexicans in general, and their national flag in particular. The story caused an uproar in Mexico, and MGM decided to sacrifice Tracy in order to be allowed to continue filming there. The young actor Stuart Erwin replaced Tracy. The film's original director, Howard Hawks, was also fired for his refusal to testify against Tracy. Jack Conway replaced him. During World War II, Tracy returned to military service. Later, he had two television series in the 1950s. One was Martin Kane: Private Eye, in which he was one of four actors to play the title role. The others were William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, and Mark Stevens. In 1958, he returned to a newspaper reporter role in the syndicated New York Confidential. After World War II, his screen career was largely relegated to television, but he portrayed the former President of the United States, Art Hockstader, a character loosely based on Harry Truman, in both the stage and film versions of The Best Man (1964), written by Gore Vidal. The movie version featured Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. Tracy received his only Academy Award nomination, as Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Tracy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Popularity : 3.241
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1898-04-13
  • Place of Birth : Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Lee Tracy Movies

  • 1932
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    Doctor X

    Doctor X

    6 1932 HD

    A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

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  • 1930
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    She Got What She Wanted

    She Got What She Wanted

    1 1930 HD

    Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their...

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  • 1964
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    The Best Man

    The Best Man

    7.3 1964 HD

    The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the...

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  • 1932
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    Blessed Event

    Blessed Event

    6.5 1932 HD

    A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

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  • 1933
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    Advice to the Lovelorn

    Advice to the Lovelorn

    7 1933 HD

    Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts"...

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  • 1933
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    Bombshell

    Bombshell

    6.5 1933 HD

    A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

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  • 1945
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    Betrayal from the East

    Betrayal from the East

    5.8 1945 HD

    A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

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  • 1947
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    High Tide

    High Tide

    5.8 1947 HD

    A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.

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  • 1933
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    Dinner at Eight

    Dinner at Eight

    6.714 1933 HD

    An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...

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  • 1932
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    Love Is a Racket

    Love Is a Racket

    5.8 1932 HD

    A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.

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  • 1943
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    Power of the Press

    Power of the Press

    6.2 1943 HD

    During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war...

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  • 1932
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    The Half-Naked Truth

    The Half-Naked Truth

    5.1 1932 HD

    A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an...

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  • 1942
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    The Payoff

    The Payoff

    5.7 1942 HD

    The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried...

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  • 1933
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    Turn Back the Clock

    Turn Back the Clock

    5.1 1933 HD

    While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made...

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  • 1930
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    Liliom

    Liliom

    6.6 1930 HD

    A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker...

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  • 1929
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    Salute

    Salute

    4.7 1929 HD

    A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.

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  • 1933
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    The Nuisance

    The Nuisance

    5 1933 HD

    Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans,...

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  • 1937
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    Cinema Circus

    Cinema Circus

    1 1937 HD

    Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy...

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  • 1932
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    The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

    The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

    5.9 1932 HD

    A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.

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  • 1939
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    Fixer Dugan

    Fixer Dugan

    6.5 1939 HD

    Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.

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  • 1938
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    Crashing Hollywood

    Crashing Hollywood

    5.8 1938 HD

    A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

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  • 1933
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    Clear All Wires!

    Clear All Wires!

    6.5 1933 HD

    Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being...

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  • 1935
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    Two-Fisted

    Two-Fisted

    7 1935 HD

    A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but...

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  • 1937
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    Behind The Headlines

    Behind The Headlines

    6.2 1937 HD

    A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.

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  • 1934
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    You Belong to Me

    You Belong to Me

    7 1934 HD

    When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud...

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  • 1937
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    Criminal Lawyer

    Criminal Lawyer

    5.9 1937 HD

    Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police...

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  • 1932
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    The Night Mayor

    The Night Mayor

    1 1932 HD

    Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays...

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  • 1936
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    Sutter's Gold

    Sutter's Gold

    1 1936 HD

    Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

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  • 1936
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    Wanted: Jane Turner

    Wanted: Jane Turner

    5.3 1936 HD

    Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

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  • 1932
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    Washington Merry-Go-Round

    Washington Merry-Go-Round

    6.7 1932 HD

    Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...

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  • 1930
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    Born Reckless

    Born Reckless

    5.6 1930 HD

    In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

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  • 1939
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    The Spellbinder

    The Spellbinder

    6 1939 HD

    Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through...

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  • 1940
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    Millionaires in Prison

    Millionaires in Prison

    6 1940 HD

    A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

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  • 1934
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    I'll Tell the World

    I'll Tell the World

    1 1934 HD

    Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career,...

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  • 1945
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    I'll Tell the World

    I'll Tell the World

    1 1945 HD

    A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.

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  • 1935
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    Carnival

    Carnival

    1 1935 HD

    "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

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  • 1935
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    Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

    Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

    5.6 1935 HD

    Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.

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  • 1934
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    The Lemon Drop Kid

    The Lemon Drop Kid

    5 1934 HD

    The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.

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  • 1933
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    Private Jones

    Private Jones

    1 1933 HD

    After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter...

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  • 1964
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    The Big Parade of Comedy

    The Big Parade of Comedy

    6.3 1964 HD

    Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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  • 1929
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    Big Time

    Big Time

    6 1929 HD

    The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.

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  • 1930
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    She Got What She Wanted

    She Got What She Wanted

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1961
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    87th Precinct

    87th Precinct

    7.5 1961 HD

    87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the...

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  • 1962
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    Going My Way

    Going My Way

    5 1962 HD

    Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series

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  • 1949
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    Martin Kane, Private Eye

    Martin Kane, Private Eye

    5 1949 HD

    Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.

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  • 1964
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    Profiles in Courage

    Profiles in Courage

    5 1964 HD

    Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was...

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  • 1961
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    Ben Casey

    Ben Casey

    5.7 1961 HD

    Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a...

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  • 1949
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    5.3 1949 HD

    Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

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  • 1959
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    New York Confidential

    New York Confidential

    1 1959 HD

    New York Confidential is a British-American crime drama series that aired from 1958 to 1959. The series aired in syndicated in the United States and...

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