Spencer Tracy & Lana Turner in Cass Timberlane 1948 MGM Poster Insert "TNT"

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Spencer Tracy  * Lana Turner  * Zachary Scott  -  Cass Timberlane  -  MGM  presents 1948
14 x 36 poster insert is in good condition............minor wear around the edges - usually folds ....beautiful color
The ads heralded Cass Timberlane (1947) as "TNT, Tracy 'n' Turner." It wasn't their first pairing, of course. She had played Tracy's fiance in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
six years earlier, during which she called him "her champion" for defending her from director Victor Fleming's abuse. It wasn't even the first time the slogan had been used. MGM had heralded Turner's pairing with Robert Taylor in 1941's
Johnny Eager
the same way.
For Turner, the filming of Cass Timberlane was a difficult time. For one thing, she had only just finished the period adventure
Green Dolphin Street
(1947) and was splitting her days between retakes on that film and work on the other. The changes in makeup, hair and costuming were exhausting, and at times she brought the British dialect she'd developed for
Green Dolphin Street
to her very American character in Cass Timberlane, prompting Tracy to quip, "My, my, aren't we British this morning?"
She was going through personal problems as well, involved in a tempestuous affair with Tyrone Power. Since Power was still married to French actress Anabella, she finally had to call off the relationship for fear of destroying both their careers. And when she found herself pregnant, she decided abortion was the only answer.
Through all this turmoil, however, Turner's career continued to rise. MGM was wisely trying her out in a series of powerful dramatic roles, leading film critics to praise her acting in Cass Timberlane, something they'd rarely done about her work before. She must have mended her ways on the set as well, because by the time shooting ended Tracy gave her the strongest compliment he could: "This is a good actress."
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