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
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