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John Prentice that is a black widower and needs to fly on that night to Geneva to work with the World Health Organization. Joey invites John's parents Mr. Prentice and Mrs. Prentice to have dinner with her family and the couple flies from Los Angeles to San Francisco without knowing that Joey is white. Christina invites also the liberal Monsignor Ryan, who is friend of her family. Along the day and night, the families discuss the problems of their son and daughter. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a love story of today Genres: 12 December 1967 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Rat mal, wer zum Essen kommt See more » Filming Locations: Spencer Tracy 's glasses have no lenses throughout the film. See more » Goofs When Mrs. Drayton is in the garden with Mr. Drayton picking yellow roses she puts one in his lapel and the stem is poking out from behind his lapel. After she says "Guess who's coming to dinner?" they show a close-up reaction shot of Mr. Drayton and the stem is hidden.

Then the following shot shows the stem again before he pulls the rose out in anger. See more » Quotes [first lines] John : You know, I just had a thought. Why don't I go check into a hotel and get some rest, and you go find your folks? Sung by Jacqueline Fontaine at the restaurant Sung offscreen by a chorus during opening and closing credits Played in the score often Liberal Angst over Interractial Relationship in the 1960s 7 May 2005 | by oneflighthoop (United States) – See all my reviews Guess Who's Coming to Dinner takes place during the course of one day as two families struggle to overcome their concerns about the interracial marriage of their children. This film is a treat for the eyes with lovely sets and beautiful people. It also has a nice 1960's feel that is reinforced by sophisticated wardrobing and an "easy listening" soundtrack--featuring The Glory of Love as the signature tune. The film relies very heavily on the use of dialog and reflects the elegance of a time when people were entertained by stimulating conversation. The San Francisco backdrop also is the perfect setting for a movie that challenged racial convention. But there are a few serious flaws.

This is an introductory role for Katharine Houghton (Hepburn's niece) who plays Sidney Portier's fiancé--Johanna Drayton. Her inexperience is apparent, particularly in comparison to heavyweights Portier, Tracy and Hepburn and as a result, she is unconvincing in the part. Moreover, her character is not well-written or well-developed which makes it difficult to understand why Sidney Portier's character--John Prentice-would fall in love with a woman who appears to have so little to offer intellectually --given his significant professional achievements as a doctor. One also must ask why it was necessary for his character to be cast as a doctor in order to be seen as an acceptable partner for a young white woman who had not really accomplished anything accept being born into a privileged family. The answer is simple. Making Prentice a doctor-and not just any doctor-but a world renowned expert in tropical medicine, made the interracial relationship more acceptable to white audiences during the 1960s. The other cast members are outstanding and the on-screen chemistry phenomenal.

Katharine Hepburn (Christina Drayton) and Spencer Tracy (Newspaper Publisher Matt Drayton) deliver brilliant performances as Johanna's parents. John Prentice's modest working class parents are played with great dignity by Beah Richards and Roy E. Glen. Mrs. Prentice and Mrs. Drayton favor the marriage and both characters provide passionate, articulate arguments as to why their husbands should agree. But their husbands voice serious objections and the families spend the evening in intense discussions over the issue, accurately reflecting the racial fears that existed 40 years ago. Prentice's father reminds him that in many states interracial marriage is illegal and that he is "getting out of line." There are also a number of very memorable and funny lines. In the scene in which Matt Drayton wonders why "the colored kids dance better than the white kids", Portier's response is classic--"you dance the Watusi, but we are the Watusi!"(For readers under 40, the Watusi was a popular dance in the 1960s and also an African tribe).

Cecil Kelloway, who plays friend of the family, Monsignor Ryan, deftly brings a sense of humor and moral guidance that is effective because it is not "preachy". He challenges Matt Drayton's liberal credentials and suggests that Drayton's misgivings about his daughter marrying a black man reveal his hypocrisy. Isabel Sanford ("Weezy from The Jeffersons TV program) plays the feisty maid of the Draytons. It's been said that in the final scene Tracy--who was very ill at the time and who died shortly after the movie was completed--delivered one of the longest soliloquies in American film history, in only one take. Katherine Helpurn was clearly so moved by the scene that it's hard to believe that she is just acting as her eyes brim with tears. Although the some of the sentiments are dated, this film is highly entertaining, and provides a rare opportunity to experience outstanding performances from six gifted actors who bring compassion and depth to Stanley Kramer's film. Its' angst relative to interracial marriage also reminds us of how far we have not come. 44 of 50 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) Synopsis - Plot Summary - Fandango GO Synopsis Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton ( Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn ) have raised their daughter Joey ( Katharine Houghton ) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional. Still, they aren't prepared for the shock when she returns home from a vacation with a new fiancé: African-American doctor John Prentice ( Sidney Poitier ). While they come to grips with whatever prejudices they might still harbor, the younger folks must also contend with John's parents (Roy Glenn Sr. and Beah Richards ), who are dead-set against the union. To complicate matters, the older couple's disapproving maid ( Isabel Sanford ) and Christina's bigoted business associate ( Virginia Christine ) put in their two cents' worth. While Joey is determined to go ahead with the wedding no matter what people think, John refuses to consider marriage until he receives the unqualified approval of all concerned. The closing monologue delivered by Spencer Tracy turned out to be the last scene ever played by the veteran film luminary, who died not long after the production.

The film was a success in the racially volatile year of 1967 and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won for Hepburn and screenwriter William Rose . ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi Provided by Rovi Guess Who's Coming To Dinner [DVD] [1967]: Amazon.co.uk: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards, Roy Glenn, Isabel Sanford, Virginia Christine, Alexandra Hay, Barbara Randolph, D'Urville Martin, Sam Leavitt, Stanley Kramer, Robert C. Jones, Georges Glass, William Rose: DVD & Blu-ray Guess Who's Coming To Dinner [DVD] [1967] Format: PAL, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Sound, Colour Language: English, Italian, Spanish Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.

) Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1 Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 4 Mar. 2002 Run Time: 104 minutes Product Description Product Description Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award(r) for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. In GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER,director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of society's prejudices.

From Amazon.co.uk Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socio-economic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there's no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love, and much else, it's impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor's life and career. --Tom Keogh --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Movie Review - - Screen: 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' Arrives:Tracy-Hepburn Picture Opens at 2 Theaters The Cast - NYTimes.com Screen: 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' Arrives:Tracy-Hepburn Picture Opens at 2 Theaters The Cast By BOSLEY CROWTHER Published: December 12, 1967 "GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER," which came to the Beekman and the Victoria yesterday, is a most delightfully acted and gracefully entertaining film, fashioned much in the manner of a stage drawing-room comedy, that seems to be about something much more serious and challenging than it actually is. It seems to be about the social bias encountered by a San Francisco miss, daughter of liberal and socially prominent parents, who wants to marry a distinguished Negro scientist and suddenly finds herself opposed by her own father and the father of her fiancé.

It seems to pose directly the question contained in that old hypocritical line: "I've got nothing at all against Negroes, but would you want your sister (daughter) to marry one?" This certainly is the issue that swiftly and startlingly confronts Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn when their daughter, Katharine Houghton, breezes home from a short vacation in Hawaii with beaming Sidney Poitier in tow, and bluntly announces with firm finality that they are going to be wed. And it continues to appear to be the issue as the parents of Mr. Poitier arrive unexpectedly for dinner and the two families sit down face to face to consider this unsettling aberration, a la the families in "Abie's Irish Rose." But actually the bleakness of this issue has already begun to fade long before the dumbfounded Negro parents arrive from Los Angeles. The mother of the girl, a New Deal liberal and a blue-stocking of the sort that Miss Hepburn has played with crisp dexterity and assurance so many times, has plunked positively for the marriage, after her first indication of surprise, and seems almost as joyous about it as if it were her own.

An old monsignor friend of the family, played jovially by Cecil Kellaway, has approved it with as cheerful affirmation as he would give to handing the girl a lollipop. And, of course, the girl herself is so determined and so blissfully confident that nothing can obstruct her resolution that the issue hangs on one big question mark. That is the judgment of the father—the father of the intended bride. Will he oppose the marriage? Will he bolt his liberal posture and say "No"? Or is he merely manifesting the misgivings and hesitations of any father of any girl who wants to marry a man much older than she is, whom she has known for only 10 days? This is, indeed, the aggravation that sticks in Mr. Tracy's craw during the hours of his grumpy indecision before the parents of Mr. Poitier arrive—this concern that his daughter is undertaking a delicate marriage in too much haste. And, like so many similar anxieties of Mr. Tracy in previous films, it makes sense. To be sure, the apparent issue of a difference in race is raised when the father of Mr. Poitier puts it bluntly to Mr. Tracy and to his son.

Then it comes as a shock wave of intemperance as Roy E. Glenn Sr. hurls it forth with a fury and indignation that astonishes everyone. But it soon is absorbed in a verbal matting of nice philosophizing about the power of love, before Mr. Tracy accepts the situation and they all go in to a family dinner—with wine. If one were taking this cheerful disquisition on the problems of mixed marriage seriously, there are several observations and pointed questions that would have to be raised. Is this a normal conjunction of a white girl and a Negro man that Stanley Kramer, the producer-director and his scriptwriter, William Rose, have arranged? Is the poison of bigotry and bias conceivable in the attitudes of intelligent, liberal parents towards their daughter when she wants to wed a brilliant, charming Negro who is a candidate for a Nobel Prize? Is a sudden, powerful romance likely between an eminent man of this sort and the starry-eyed college senior Miss Houghton rapturously plays? Let's not pursue those questions, for they will only tend to disturb the euphoria and likely enjoyment of this witty and glistening film. Mr. Rose has written a deliciously swift and pithy script, and Mr.

Kramer has made it spin brightly in a stylish ambience of social comedy. Mr. Tracy and Miss Hepburn are superior—he the crusty, sardonic old boy who speaks from a store of flinty wisdom but whose heart overflows with tender love; and she the seemingly airy patrician whose eyes often well with compassionate tears. Mr. Poitier is also splendid within the strictures of a rather stuffy type that might also be questioned, if one were dissecting this film, and Beah Richards is deeply touching as his mother, which is the most profound and dignified role. Isabelle Sanford gets off some nifties, in a somewhat Dick Gregoryish vein, as the family's Negro maid who has the strongest bias against mixed marriages. "Civil rights is one thing but this here is something else," she sniffs in a burst of incisive recognition that might also characterize the blue-chip film. One might add that it has the further value of strong personal sentiment, in that it offers Mr. Tracy so graciously in the last role he played before his death. The Cast GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, written by William Rose; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer; released by Columbia Pictures.

At the Victoria Theater, Broadway and 46th Street, and the Beekman Theater, 65th Street at Second Avenue. Running time: 112 minutes. Matt Drayton . . . . . Spencer Tracy Hepburn, Tracy and Poitier star in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner - Dec 12, 1967 - HISTORY.com Hepburn, Tracy and Poitier star in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Share this: Hepburn, Tracy and Poitier star in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Author Hepburn, Tracy and Poitier star in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1967, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, a groundbreaking movie about an interracial romantic relationship starring Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton, opens in theaters. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner followed the story of a young white woman (Houghton) who brings her fiance (Poitier), an African-American doctor, home to meet her parents, played by Hepburn and Tracy in their last film together. (Off-screen, the couple had a long romance, although Tracy was married to another woman.

He died on June 10, 1967, a short time after the movie wrapped.) Directed by Stanley Kramer, who was known for his “message” films–including Inherit the Wind (about the Scopes “monkey” trial) and Judgment at Nuremberg (about Nazi crimes during World War II)–Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner examines the reactions of the young couple’s various family members and friends to their relationship. Until the landmark 1967 civil-rights case Loving vs. Virginia, which was decided just five months before Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was released, marriage between blacks and whites was still illegal in parts of America, and Kramer’s film was notable for its willingness to tackle this taboo topic. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and collected two Oscars, including Best Actress for Hepburn, the second of her career. Hepburn (1907-2003) won four Academy Awards (out of 12 total nominations) over the course of her long career, more than any other actress.

She collected her first Best Actress Oscar for 1933’s Morning Glory, with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and went on to earn Best Actress Oscar nominations for Alice Adams (1935), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), which marked her first movie with Spencer Tracy, The African Queen (1951), Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962). The legendary screen star followed her Oscar win for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner with Best Actress golden statues for The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). Her final feature film was 1994’s Love Affair, with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. Sidney Poitier, born on February 27, 1927, earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for 1958’s The Defiant Ones, directed by Stanley Kramer and co-starring Tony Curtis and Theodore Bikel.

For his performance as a handyman who builds a chapel for a group of German nuns in 1963’s Lilies of the Field, he became the first black man ever to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Among Poitier’s other well-known films are To Sir, With Love (1967) and In the Heat of the Night (1967). Spencer Tracy (1900-1967) took home his first Best Actor Oscar for 1937’s Captains Courageous, having been previously nominated in the category for 1936’s San Francisco. He won again for 1938’s Boys Town and went on to earn nominations for Father of the Bride (1950), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Tracy received his ninth and final Best Actor Oscar nomination for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

Related Videos Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1/8) Movie CLIP - Pleased to Meet You (1967) HD - YouTube Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1/8) Movie CLIP - Pleased to Meet You (1967) HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 7, 2012 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Joey (Katharine Houghton) describes John (Sidney Poitier) to Christina (Katharine Hepburn) as he quietly enters the room and Christina gets her first look at her daughter's new boyfriend. FILM DESCRIPTION: Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional.

Still, they aren't prepared for the shock when she returns home from a vacation with a new fianc CREDITS: Cast: Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton Director: Stanley Kramer Producers: Stanley Kramer, George Glass Screenwriter: William Rose WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier - Three Movie Buffs Review Guess Who's Coming to Dinner "A love story of today" Reviewed on: July 6th, 2003 Katharine Houghton and Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. In 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? was a socially progressive film. Today it seems quaint, yet still relevant. Lead by a memorable cast, this movie rises above its weaknesses.

Joey Drayton, played by Hepburn's real life niece Katharine Houghton, a fresh-faced innocent looking young girl, arrives home from Hawaii with her new fiancée, Dr John Prentice. But wait. John Prentice is 'a Negro', as described by 'Caucasian' Joey, to her mother. Before the parents can get all of their objections sorted out, they have John's parents coming to dinner as well. Both sets of parents have reservations about this union. The movie glosses over the subject of interracial marriage without getting too detailed. The big objections are that they may get negative reactions from other people. Poitier's Dr Prentice is portrayed as an in-law's dream. He and Joey haven't even had sex yet. Joey walks around looking angelic and clueless. Their relationship and chemistry in the movie is weak. The greatest things about Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? are the characters of Joey's parents, Matt and Christina. Matt is a liberal journalist (as if there are any other kind) whose liberal thinking is put to the test by the intended nuptials. The best scenes are when Matt and Christina discuss the issue at hand.

This was Tracy's last movie, but his onscreen chemistry with Hepburn is as great as ever. Poitier, being the only leading black actor at the time, was terribly miscast. Why the parents never question the age factor is beyond me. Poitier has got to have 15 to 20 years on Houghton. As a parent, that would have raised more eyebrows with me than the skin color. Poitier's acting is adequate at best. What is with those hand gestures he makes in the scene where he is talking to his father? Hepburn's and Tracy's characters and performances save this film. Their liberal views are challenged when a social issue comes home by means of their only daughter. In this we find the greatness of this movie. It holds up the question to all who view it. Do we just support things when they apply to other people, or are we actually as liberal and/or conservative as we think when it comes to practicing what we preach? Did you enjoy Eric's review? +16 Reviewed on: July 14th, 2003 Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. I love this movie.

It symbolizes everything good in the human spirit to me. And although style wise this movie is dated now, the underlying theme is as relevant today as it was all those decades ago. There were two obvious ways this movie could have been made. The father could have been an ignorant 'Archie Bunker' type reactionary, which could have been played for broad laughs. The other option is the one they, wisely, chose. The fact that the father is an intellectual liberal forced to face his own buried prejudices allows the movie to resonate much deeper and, therefore, its message holds up well after all these years. How many liberals, even today, publicly decry racism but would balk at the concept of their daughter marrying a black man? On some deeply personal level most of us are still racist, at least to some degree, whether we admit it or not. In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Spencer Tracy's character comes to realize this. He doesn't like the feeling and he is able to overcome his prejudices. Of course he never actually admits that his feelings are racist, but it is clearly implied if you read between the lines. Eric is right when he says that the only objection they vocalize is the fact that society will treat the young couple harshly.

And although this is a valid and probably accurate objection, it is fairly obvious by the attitudes of both fathers that the issue is closer to the bone for both of them. That said I disagree completely with Eric's statement of there being no chemistry between Poitier and Houghton. I think they are a perfect example of two people who are as surprised as everyone else at finding themselves completely head-over-heels in love. They seem completely comfortable and natural around each other and their behavior seems to be a truthful example of how two people who have known each other a short time and are still in the first giddy joys of love, would act. As for Eric's problem with the age difference, that's just ridiculous. She is 23 and he is 37, certainly not enough of an age difference to be a huge deal. I always enjoy the supporting characters in this movie. There is the black maid (Isabel Sanford) who doesn't like the idea of Sidney Poitier's character "getting above himself". There is also an interesting scene where a white delivery boy (Skip Martin) dances off with a black girl, suggesting the possibility of them being a couple as well. I also appreciate the relationship Chris and Matt have with the Monsignor.

They are self-proclaimed atheists and he is a scotch swilling priest. Yet instead of making fun of him, as a movie today would, he is shown as one of the most intelligent and understanding religious figures you will find in any movie. In today's politically correct world you couldn't show an alchohol imbibing priest as anything but a tragic figure or a joke. In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner he's a hero. Finally, I have to agree with Eric as far as the chemistry of seeing Tracy and Hepburn on the screen together one last time. This is easily their best performance as a couple. He is frail but still has a formidable presence and gives emotionally truthful line readings. The adoration Hepburn felt for him is painfully obvious. She clearly knew he was close to death at the time and it adds to her intensity. If you are not moved during his final speech when he gets teary eyed looking at her as she stares adoringly back at him then "in the final analysis" I feel incredibly sorry for you. I watch this movie whenever I am feeling down or disappointed by humanity and it has never yet failed to uplift my spirits and put a smile on my face. Did you enjoy Patrick's review?

+19 Reviewed on: June 11th, 2014 Sydney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Eric thought the age difference between John and Joey was cause for concern, but to me, the biggest thing I would be worried about if I were parent of either of them is how quickly they decided to get married. Going from having just met to wanting to get married after only 10 days is hardly enough time to really get to know the other person. Sure, quick marriages have worked and some people who have known each other for years still end up in divorce, but it would still be the first thing I brought up in conversation if I were one of their fathers. Like Eric, I also didn't find the chemistry between Poitier and Houghton to be particularly strong. We are meant to believe that these two met and fell in love at practically first sight and knew that they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together almost immediately. Yet, while they seem comfortable around each other, they demonstrate none of that fiery passion on the screen. They stand around and rationally discuss their relationship, but the burning desire that demands they get married as soon as possible is absent.

The lack of physical contact between them can be attributed to attitudes of the time. While several scenes of Houghton and Poitier kissing were filmed, all but one of them was edited out of the film. Apparently the studio felt that audiences of the day could handle people talking about interracial love, but not actually seeing it demonstrated physically. It reminded of movies from the 1980s and 1990s that featured gay couples, and even to some extent those still made today, where it was okay to show gay characters so long as they weren't physical with each other. The other problem with Poitier's character is that he is nearly perfect, almost a saint. I mean, here you have a doctor who spends his time treating the poor and sick in third world countries around the globe. He's so honorable that he won't have sex with Joey until they're married and is willing to sacrifice his own happiness if her parents don't approve of their union. If he were white, Joey's parents would probably ask their friend, the monsignor, to marry them on the spot before John changed his mind, except of course he never would because that wouldn't be honorable.

This movie does seem quaint when looked at from a modern perspective and not just because of the way it handles the interracial relationship. At one point Joey uses the word 'bitch' and later sort of talks about sex with her mother. You can tell from the way these scenes are filmed that they're meant to be adult and possibly shocking when today they are so commonplace you wouldn't think twice about such moments. As my brothers wrote, the biggest joy of this movie is watching Tracy and Hepburn act together one last time. Tracy was very ill at this time and Hepburn knew it. The studio resisted casting him because he was uninsurable. To accept the part he had to put his salary in escrow where it would be forfeited should he die before filming was complete. Due to his physical frailty he was only able to shoot for half the day. The two of them are so comfortable around each other that their onscreen relationship seems to be a part of themselves as it often does with couples who have been married for a long time. So many aspects of this movie are dated, but their performances demonstrate the timeless appeal of two old pros doing what they do best. Did you enjoy Scott's review?

+5 Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) So Appallingly Stupid! You will receive an email shortly to confirm your email address. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) So Appallingly Stupid! title details and video sharing options now playing Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) So Appallingly Stupid! Hillary (Virginia Christine) with Joey (Katharine Houghton) and Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), whose engagement has just been revealed, then getting a momentous telling-off from her art gallery senior partner Christina (Katharine Hepburn), in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967. View the TCMDb entry for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) share video Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie... Hillary (Virginia Christine) with Joey (Katharine Houghton)... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) So Appallingly Stupid!

Hillary (Virginia Christine) with Joey (Katharine Houghton) and Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), whose engagement has just been revealed, then getting a momentous telling-off from her art gallery senior partner Christina (Katharine Hepburn), in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967.> Donald Bogle on Sex and Race - (A TCM Featurette) Donald Bogle on Sex and Race - (A TCM Featurette) Historian Donald Bogle discusses Race and Sex in The World, The Flesh and The Devil (1959), A Patch Of Blue (1965) and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967).> Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - (Original... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - (Original Trailer) Spencer Tracy's last film and last with Katharine Hepburn was this story of a liberal couple tested when their daughter brings home a black fiancee.> Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie... Matt (Spencer Tracy) and Christina (Katharine Hepburn)... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)...

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) What Black Power Really Means Matt (Spencer Tracy) and Christina (Katharine Hepburn) getting ice cream, staying calm, upon learning that Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), meantime berated by their maid Tillie (Isabell Sanford), hopes to marry their daughter, in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967.> Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie... San Francisco editor Matt Drayton (Spencer Tracy) gradually... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Some Way To Break This Gently San Francisco editor Matt (Spencer Tracy) gradually catches on as he greets wife Christina (Katharine Hepburn), daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) and new friend Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967.> Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie... From producer-director Stanley Kramer's credits, Sidney...

The daughter of a weGuess Who's... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Has Something Happened? From director Stanley Kramers credits, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton (Katharine Hepburns niece, in her movie debut) arrive San Francisco, at her moms gallery, meeting Hillary (Virginia Christine), in Guess Whos Coming To Dinner, 1967, starring Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. > Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie... Katharine Hepburn's first scene, as San Francisco gallery... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Do I Know Him? Katharine Hepburns first scene, as gallery owner Christina, alarmed that daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton, Hepburns niece) has returned early from her travels, is reassured, until she meets Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), in Stanley Kramers Guess Whos Coming To Dinner, 1967.>

Question: Whose last film was 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' in 1967?
Answer: Spencer Tracy