Marie Galante
Movie newcomer Ketti Gallian plays Marie Galante, who is kidnapped by a drunken sea captain and left stranded in the Yucatan. While working as a café singer hoping to pay for her ticket out of the Panama Canal, she meets American detective Crawbett (Spencer Tracy), who is the only person who believes her abduction story. In a series of twist and turns, the two finds themselves caught in the middle of an unexpected adventure, including espionage and a plan to blow up the canal. Based on a novel by Jacques Deval, Marie Galante was intended to make Gallian a star but in the end, it was brilliant Tracy who brought in the audience.
Spencer Tracy On Film: A Biography
Spencer Tracy was a man blessed with an incredible gift, yet tormented from within. It’s almost as if there were two Spencer Tracys. There was the talented, magnanimous Tracy. In his personal life he could be charming, witty and surprisingly generous, and in his chosen profession of acting, he was considered pee