Lee Tracy

William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American actor.

Early life

Tracy was born in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating from Western Military Academy in 1918 he studied electrical engineering at Union College, and then served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I. In the early 1920s he decided to work as an actor. He became a Broadway star by way of his starring role in the original 1924 production of George Kelly's play The Show-Off.

Career

He arrived in Hollywood in 1929, where he played the role of newspapermen in quite a number of pictures. He played reporter Hildy Johnson in the original stage production of The Front Page (1928) and a Walter Winchell-type gossip columnist in Blessed Event (1932). Tracy starred as the columnist in Advice to the Lovelorn (1933), very loosely based on the novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West, and played a conscience-stricken editor in the 1943 drama The Power of the Press, based on a story by former newspaperman Samuel Fuller.

Lee Tracy (artist)

Lee Tracy is a Chicago-area artist. She was born in Maine.

She has received numerous grants from the Illinois Arts Council and has had solo shows at the Lyons Weir Gallery, Artemisia Gallery, and Vedanta Gallery in Chicago. She appeared in "The Chicago Art Scene". In the summer of 2007 she participated in Chicago's ecologically-themed Public Art project, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet.

Lee Tracy received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989. She also attended Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and The Art Institute of Boston.

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