Spencer Tracy's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

In the record

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for April 5 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1938 Best Actor — Captains Courageous; 1939 Best Actor — Boys Town win.

Academy Award record

• 1938 Best Actor — Captains Courageous
• 1939 Best Actor — Boys Town

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Spencer Tracy's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Spencer Tracy. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

Live 3 of Spades meaning page

Spencer Tracy in the public record

He was known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, from nine nominations. During his career, he appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the ninth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Tracy first discovered his talent for acting while attending Ripon College, and he later received a scholarship for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He spent seven years in the theater, working in a succession of stock companies and intermittently on Broadway. His breakthrough came in 1930, when his lead performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood. After a successful film debut in John Ford's Up the River (in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart), he was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Spencer Tracy (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 5 of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Spencer Tracy, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed. You crave variety in resources and experiences. You get bored with one income stream, one investment, one way of working. You need novelty and freedom in your material life.

Towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director Stanley Kramer.

Paired on shared wording: life, worked.

Also on the record

1. Tracy's five years with Fox featured one acting tour de force after another that were usually ignored at the box office, and he remained largely unknown to movie audiences after 25 films, nearly all of them starring him as the leading man.
2. None of them were hits, although his performance in The Power and the Glory (1933) was highly praised at the time.
3. In 1935, Tracy joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Hollywood's most prestigious studio at the time.
4. His career flourished after his fifth MGM film, Fury (1936), and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town.

Other winners with this card

• Anna Magnani — 1956 Best Actress — The Rose Tattoo
• Bette Davis — 1936 Best Actress — Dangerous; 1939 Best Actress — Jezebel
• Bing Crosby — 1945 Best Actor — Going My Way
• Gregory Peck — 1963 Best Actor — To Kill a Mockingbird
• Michael B. Jordan — 2026 Best Actor — Sinners
• Ronald Colman — 1948 Best Actor — A Double Life

FAQ

What is Spencer Tracy's birth card?

The 3 of Spades. April 5 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Spencer Tracy's dates come from?

Birth date 1900-04-05 is the day-precision date on Spencer Tracy's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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