SPENCER TRACY: A Biography, by James Curtis (Knopf, 1,001 pages, $39.95 hardcover) There s a great story about a great actor between the covers of Spencer Tracy: A Biography, yet it s tougher to get ...

There's a great story between the covers of "Spencer Tracy: A Biography," yet it's tougher to get to than it ought to be. Author James Curtis needed to be more ruthless when it came to deciding what ...

Hollywood craziness claims the least "Hollywood%E2%80%9D of stars in this massive, eye-opening biography. Onscreen, in Boys Town to Judgment at Nuremberg, Tracy (1900 ...

There's a great story about a great actor between the covers of "Spencer Tracy: A Biography," yet it's tougher to get to than it ought to be. An excellent researcher and writer, author James Curtis ...