REMEMBERING SPENCER TRACY

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, November 11, 2000 

LEO IS ON THE AIR (1936) A radio movie promo for MGM’s “Libled Lady,” a romantic comedy starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. Transcribed. (14 min)

SCREEN GUILD THEATRE (4-21-40) “Ninotchka” starring Spencer Tracy and Rosalind Russell in the radio version of Ernst Lubitch’s 1939 screen comedy about a Russian agent in Paris who falls in love with a Capitalist despite their different polictial backgrounds. Roger Pryor hosts. Os-car Bradley and the orchestra. Gulf Oil Co., CBS. (30 min)

YARNS FOR YANKS (1942) “Extra! Extra! star­ring Spencer Tracy in a story by Robert E. Sherwood. AFRS. (15 min)

CHASE AND SANBORN HOUR (7-24-38) Ed­ward Arnold hosts this variety series starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Dorothy Lamour, Metropolitan Opera singer John Carter, comics Claude and Clarence Stroud, and special guest Spencer Tracy. Music by Robert Armbruster and the orchestra. Wendell Niles announces. Tracy appears with Edward Arnold in a mini-version of the 1931 film “Five Star Final” and later joins Charlie McCarthy for a comedy bit. Chase and Sanborn Coffee, NBC. (15 min & 12 min & 31 min)

COMMAND PERFORMANCE (12-23-44) Ex­cerpt. Spencer Tracy stars in a Christmas drama, “The Small One” featuring Lee J. Cobb, Skippy Homier, Griff Barnett, Howard Duff, Harry Bartell, Elliott Lewis. AFRS. (14 min)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be movie historian BOB KOLOSOSKI who will be on hand to talk about the film career of Spencer Tracy who died in 1967 after completing work on the film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”