Spencer Tracy Tracy left MGM in 1955, and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite an increasing weariness as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness. Tracy became estranged from his wife in the 1930s, but never divorced, conducting a long-term relationship with Katharine Hepburn in private. Towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director Stanley Kramer. It was for Kramer that he made his last film, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" in 1967, completed just 17 days before his death. During his
Spencer Tracy to find the "King and Queen of Hollywood" ranked Tracy sixth among males. Tracy was reunited with Gable and Loy for 1938's "Test Pilot". The film was another commercial and critical success, permanently cementing the notion of Gable and Tracy as a team. Based on the positive response he had received in "San Francisco", MGM again cast Tracy as a priest in "Boys Town" (1938). Portraying Edward J. Flanagan, a Catholic priest and founder of Boys Town, was a role Tracy took seriously: "I'm so anxious to do a good job as Father Flanagan that it worries me, keeps me