"And The Award Goes To... Spencer Tracy!"

Turner Classic Movies continues their celebration of Spencer Tracy this month with an evening of five of his Academy-nominated performances, today, October 15. Tracy was nominated for a total of nine Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role, two of which he won (BOYS TOWN (1938) and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (1937)). Three of Tracy's Oscar-nominated films were directed by Stanley Kramer and will be featured on the 29th of October when TCM will air all four films on which the two collaborated. Next week will feature several of the films Tracy made with Katharine Hepburn.

BOYS TOWN (1938): 8:00 pm EST

                    Genre: biography, drama

                    Directed by: Norman Taurog

                    Written by: John Meehan, Dore Schary, Eleanor Griffin

                    Co-Starring: Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson

"There's no such thing as a bad boy."

FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950): 9:45 pm

                    Genre: comedy, romance, family

                    Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

                    Written by: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Edward Streeter (novel)

                    Co-Starring: Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke

Stanley Banks (Tracy): :Who giveth this woman? 'This woman?' But she's not a woman. She's still a child. And she's leaving us. What's it going to be like to come home and not find her? Not hear her voice calling 'Hi, Pops' as I come in? I suddenly realized what I was doing. I was giving up Kay. Something inside me began to hurt."

Stanley Banks: "You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You're her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you're in a constant state of panic."

Stanley Banks: "No one paid any attention to the orchestra. Ellie could have saved that 85 bucks!"

BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955): 11:30 pm

                    Genre: crime, drama, mystery, thriller, Western

                    Directed by: John Strurges

                    Written by: Millard Kaufman, Don McGuire (adaptation), Howard Breslin (story)

                    Co-Starring: Anne Francis, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine

John J. Macreedy (Tracy): "You know, I know what your trouble is, son. You'd like me to die quickly, wouldn't you, without wasting too much of your time; or quietly so I wouldn't embarrass you too much; or even thankfully, so your memory of the occasion won't be unpleasant."

John J. Macreedy: "You're not only wrong; you're wrong at the top of your voice."

Reno Smith (Robert Ryan): "You must have strained every muscle in your head to get so stupid."

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1958): 1:00 am

                    Genre: adventure, drama

                    Directed by: John Sturges

                    Written by: Ernest Hemingway, Peter Viertel

                    Starring: Spencer Tracy

Tagline: "Spencer Tracy in his most suspenseful role... Ernest Hemingway's story of Heroism... Defeat... Victory!"

CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (1937): 2:30 am

(I'm crying already...)

                    Genre: adventure, drama, family

                    Directed by: Victor Fleming

                    Written by: Rudyard Kipling (novel), John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every

                    Co-Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney, John Carradine

Manuel (Tracy): [to Harvey] "15 years I've been fisherman, first time I catch fish like you." [to Dan on schooner] "I got new kind of fish. He got no tail. He got pants on his dorsal fin. I think maybe he about ten year old."

Manuel: "Wake up, little fish. Hey, wake up, wake up! Somebody think you dead, they have celebrations."

Manuel: "Oh sure, beautiful girls. I got maybe five, six girls in Gloucester. I tell each one I like her best. You gotta tell big lies to girl to make them happy."

Manuel: [to angry shipmate] "You touch that kid I tear you apart, see!"

SAN FRANCISCO (1936): 4:30 am

(I've got chills!)

                    Genre: drama, musical, romance

                    Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

                    Written by: Anita Loos, Robert E. Hopkins

                    Co-Starring: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald

Father Mullin (Tracy): "That's right. You're in probably the wickedest, most corrupt city, most godless city in America. Sometimes it frightens me. I wonder what the end's going to be. But nothing can harm you if you don't allow it to because nothing in the world, no one in the world, is all bad."