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Lee Tracy

Lee Tracy

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.

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Movies Starring Lee Tracy (36)

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

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The Best Man (1964)

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 front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job. ...

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High Tide (1947)

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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I'll Tell the World (1945)

A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin. ...

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Betrayal from the East (1945)

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

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Power of the Press (1943)

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 effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits. ...

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The Payoff (1942)

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 as it appeared to be. ...

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Millionaires in Prison (1940)

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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The Spellbinder (1939)

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father's courtroom performance, but unaware of his ...

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Fixer Dugan (1939)

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

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Crashing Hollywood (1938)

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

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Behind The Headlines (1937)

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

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Criminal Lawyer (1937)

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. O ...

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Cinema Circus (1937)

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 introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under th ...

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Wanted: Jane Turner (1936)

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

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Sutter's Gold (1936)

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

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Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935)

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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Two-Fisted (1935)

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 is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the pro ...

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Carnival (1935)

"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 father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides o ...

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The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)

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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You Belong to Me (1934)

When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unrel ...

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I'll Tell the World (1934)

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, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire servi ...

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Dinner at Eight (1933)

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan P ...

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Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)

Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired ...

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Bombshell (1933)

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

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Turn Back the Clock (1933)

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 different choices twenty years earlier. ...

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The Nuisance (1933)

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized. ...

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Private Jones (1933)

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 of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss. ...

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Clear All Wires! (1933)

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 rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with hi ...

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The Half-Naked Truth (1932)

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

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Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)

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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Blessed Event (1932)

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

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The Night Mayor (1932)

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 a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal roc ...

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Doctor X (1932)

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

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Love is a Racket (1932)

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

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)

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

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