SANFORD, Isabell [Tilly]: "I don't understand nothin' no more!"

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier,

Various clips featuring the maid Tilly.




Storyline
Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he's black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl's parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor's parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . .

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[Yaryalitsa]

@zainol2010

I totally agree.

Under rated actress - at her time.

[Yaryalitsa]

@realfredwithtires

that she was!

:)

[zainol2010]

Her performance should at least have an Oscar nomination

[brightlights456X]

1:32

"I don't like seeing a member of my own race getting above himself"

That train of thought still exists today....shame :/

[realfredwithtires]

She was brilliant.

[notaniceguy34]

how come Isabel Sanford did not get an Oscar nomination for this role?

[torresongs2]

A brilliant actress! Such a great performance! Full of shining moments! Tilly runs that house with an iron fist! Tilly don't play!

[swampzoid]

Tillie, you go girl !

[gatoperezoso]

Weezie forever. Love her to pieces.