Lee Tracy
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Lee Tracy as Hildy Johnson in the Broadway production of The Front Page (1928)
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William Lee Tracy April 14, 1898 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | October 18, 1968 (aged 70) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1924-1965 |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Thomas Wyse (1938–1968) (his death) |
William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American actor.
Tracy was born in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating from Western Military Academy in 1918 he studied electrical engineering at Union College, and then served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I. In the early 1920s he decided to work as an actor. He became a Broadway star by way of his starring role in the original 1924 production of George Kelly's play The Show-Off. He played reporter Hildy Johnson in the original Broadway production of The Front Page (1928).
He arrived in Hollywood in 1929, where he played the role of newspapermen in quite a number of pictures. He played a Walter Winchell-type gossip columnist in Blessed Event (1932). Tracy starred as the columnist in Advice to the Lovelorn (1933), very loosely based on the novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West, and played a conscience-stricken editor in the 1943 drama The Power of the Press, based on a story by former newspaperman Samuel Fuller.
He 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.
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