Spencer Tracy Hepburn, living what she described as a quiet life: reading, painting, and listening to music. On June 10, 1967, 17 days after completing what was his last film role in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", Tracy awakened at 3:00 am to make himself a cup of tea in his apartment in Beverly Hills, California. Hepburn described in her autobiography how she followed him to the kitchen: "Just as I was about to give [the door] a push, there was a sound of a cup smashing to the floor—then clump—a loud clump." She entered the room to find Tracy lying dead
John Sheehan (actor) talking version of the film "Kismet" (1930), starring Otis Skinner and Loretta Young; a featured role in 1934's "Little Miss Marker", starring Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou; Michael Curtiz's "Kid Galahad" (1937), starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart; the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy "Woman of the Year" (1942); the classic biopic "The Pride of the Yankees" (1943), starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright; another 1943 biographical film, "Yankee Doodle Dandy", starring James Cagney; the Abbott and Costello comedy "Buck Privates Come Home" (1947); and the last film to be released in which he appeared