European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Cert oct considered a Way the my. Living says nine Ime Hep bum. We a Anc. Each old Nav a a. Hough on joined mss , Tocy guess who Comina Dinne Tracy picked up 1938 Oscar for his boys town role with Mickey Rooney. Every actor should be so Luck to go out with a Winner As Spencer Tracy did with guess who coming to True the film missed out on Theoscar As Best picture of the year but at least it was in the final running along with nine other nominations it received. Two of these 10 did pay off in oscars Katharine Hepburn As Best actress her second and William Rose for Thebes Story written for the screen. And Tracy himself was up for bes Tactor his ninth nomination a record for actors. He won consecutive Oscar sin 1937 and 38 for Captain s courageous and boys town respectively so everything looked very promising for guess who. From the Start at least enough for the ailing aging Tracy to make the great Effort to under take and see the film through supported by longtime Friend miss Hepburn inner ninth co starring role with Tracy Sidney Poitier a 1963 Oscar Winner and Stanley Kramer the distinguished producer director for whom Tracy made his last four pictures. Currently on the military movie Cir Cuit guess who was completed just weeks before 67-year-old Tracy death last june of a persistent heart ailment. He was frightened for All of us Kramer wrote for life Magazine that he might not get through with the four Days before we finished he put his Arm around me and said you know i read the script again Jast night and if 1 were to die on the Way Home to ism you can still release the picture with what you be got " Kramer Felt All along that with Sucha talented cast and a stimulating Story Page 12 of interracial marriage Tracy an miss Hepburn Are the wealthy Liberal parents whose idealistic principles Are put to the test he had the chemistry the magic for an exciting motion picture. There was the Bonus of Katharine Houghton miss Hepburn s vivacious Niece in her film debut the picture has also turned out to Bea magnificent memorial to Tracy a Gruff grizzled great of film Dom whose most profound advice for Young actors was summed up in the statement Lear your in his Twilight years with his snowy mane and craggy Irish Mug Tracy was described on the set As look ing like a marvelous quiet King of and a Many years be was with pal Clark Gable a co King of metro Gold Wyn Mayer symbolized by its Leo the lion trademark. Although the Milwaukee born Brooder always liked to debunk his profession and its sometime phony aspects his colleagues were in Awe of his uncomplicated Genius. Said miss Hepburn in an interview with look Magazine before his death he s a very intelligent Man but like Many of the Irish his emotion is so Strong that it dominates a very Fin mind. This emotion Means that his heart his body and his guts Are involved in what he does. He has a remark Able memory. He picks up a Page reads it and has it memorized. He gets the intellectual Content totally he learns and says it with the idea and the truth of the speech uppermost yet this was the same outspoken straight talking Maverick who after 40 years in Hollywood would say that the Only thing he looked for in a script was How Many Days i have however he did seriously state atone time that he was appalled at the rising Cost of movie making it s the Story of people that counts not technical advances. Some of those big spectaculars Are flops disasters. There just in t any Way to continue making mediocrity. There in t the Money for it. You get older and Hoosier. Ive never seen much Point in just doing h e was always surprised at his Academy award nominations. I m very flattered and did t expect it he would say. Whether you win or not it s always Nice to be nominate because it comes from the people in my own but he was known Mohave attended Only one Oscar Cere Mony in 1938 when he won for boys town he made no Bones about being i see no reason to do anything Els and i Don t intend to he remarked in reference to producing and directing some people May be Able to do it Al trim a t in f i. Ftp my. A Sci y acting is or should be a Fulti Ejob and you fail if you Are trying to function simultaneously As a producer or a director or try to take care of outside Tracy s Only outside interest after Early years of living it up in Holly Wood and after his estrangement from his wife was the establishment of a clinic for the deaf at the University of the stars and stripes Southern California. His son John now44, was born deaf and Tracy travelled the world looking for Aid for the boy. When questioned about possible retirement Tracy would scoff that he was just learning the business and it is but he did believe in acting his age and considered the continued attempts of his contemporaries to play roman tic roles ridiculous absolutely Ridick miss Hepburn the longtime Lea lioness of film Dom has also been one no More reluctant to play her age than to admit when she turned 50 fn1959 she made it Clear she expected to play fifty ish guess who. She s been working on two films in idea of total retirement is Hor Rible she declared recently. I mean the insurance company philosophy where one must wait for total they put you away in one of those places those isolated sort of Alcatraz for the old where the whole idea is that you sit there presumably and wait for 01 can understand perhaps people retiring from a specific Job but it seems to me that we even have the wrong philosophy for that in this country. Unless we develop the philosophy for it we can t even half retire successfully. People must develop a real philos Ophy for living and a capacity to enjoy life. For instance this work that i fortunately fell into besides the fact that it pays very Well which is obviously very Nice is fascinating. It s an Awili lot of fun i think. A Spence always thought it was rat a s silly Way for a Man to make a us tuesday a he Felt he should have been air for which he briefly studied. Re both came from backgrounds by removed from acting. But Hoof such an emotional balance that id to be an had total concentration. He could s on a line or an expression com r by. His mind seemed totally Abed with what he was doing and say i be never seen anything like it. But it s not the least in his More subdued or years always prepared himself part by shutting himself off from outside Contact while concentrating the script and presumably count he Days be of Tiik finest tributes paid actors actor came from James icy Here was Only one and comedians May imitate Bogart Gary Grant and others nobody imitates can imitate Tracy. And what actor can you say that about the taciturn often irascible by would have deflated such Flat with one of his self deprecatory rom ances. He liked to Tell How Ether More upon meeting him for the t time As one of her supporting cast looks As though he was pick Edne property other memorable first encounter that of Tracy and miss Hepburn. As m 1942 on the set of Romanie 1e Long and lean miss Hepburn in piously remarked to Tracy you w. I m As tall As a l 30, 1968 to which Tracy tersely replied Don t worry i la Cut you Down to size " from that they went on to co Star in keeper of the flame without love sea of grass state of the Union Adam s rib Pat and Mike desk set and guess who s coming to dinner. Their amicable association both on and off screen was a Surprise to All including miss Hepburn noted for her nonconformist attire and Man no r the Dols Pencer first Laid eyes on me he turned to producer Joe and said not me boy i. Don want Oset mixed up with anything like that you see Spencer did t approve of in the same article look comment cd they were unlike any other screen lovers they rarely touched or embrace the made love with their eyes.%s.rsa55 a a vat Jamla onto a a a � to in i in miss Hepburn Analysed it this Way. We balance each other s natures. We were perfect representations of the american male and the american female he was the ultimate Boss of the situation but he was very challenged Busto Eltray it was simply a Case of getting used to working together. She Butts in and i Don t fund Andi Nick it up when she leaves off he on saw. We just got used to each other that s All _ Dos patches Tracy who has been nominated a record nine times for Academy award won his first Oscar in 1937 for captains courageous with Freddie Bartholomew. The stars and stripes Page 13
