SIdney Poitier..Guess Who's Coming To Dinner..(1967)

scenes from the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner"..




Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Directed by Stanley Kramer
Produced by Stanley Kramer
Written by William Rose
Starring Spencer Tracy
Sidney Poitier
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton
Cecil Kellaway
Beah Richards
Roy E. Glenn
Music by Frank DeVol
Cinematography Sam Leavitt
Editing by Robert C. Jones
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) December 12, 1967
Running time 108 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget USD$4,000,000 (est.)
Gross revenue $56,666,667

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. The film was groundbreaking for its positive representation of the controversial subject of interracial marriage, which historically had been illegal in most states of the United States, and was still illegal in seventeen southern American states up until June 12 of the year of the film's release, when it was legalized by the Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose. The movie's Oscar-nominated score was composed by Frank DeVol. [1]

The film tells the story of Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a young White American woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice, a young, idealistic African American physician she met while in Hawaii. The plot centers on Joanna's return to her liberal upper class American home in San Francisco, bringing her new fiancé to dinner to meet her parents, and the reaction of family and friends. The film depicts the discomfort of her parents, and also of John's father (a retired postal carrier, who with his wife, are also at the Drayton's dinner) as they all try to accept the choice of their son and daughter. A senior Catholic priest friend of Mr. Drayton's is also present at dinner and is a voice for tolerance. The film also touches on black-on-black racism when John is taken to task by his father and the household cook (played by Isabel Sanford) for his perceived presumption.

The film is also notable for being the ninth and final on-screen pairing of Tracy and Hepburn (filming ended just seventeen days before Tracy died). In Tracy's final speech of the film, Hepburn's tears were real—they both knew that this would be the last line of his last film, that he had not much longer to live. Hepburn never saw the completed film;[ she said the memories of Tracy were too painful. The film was released in December 1967, six months after his death.[
The key line of dialogue from which the film got its title, "Guess who's coming to dinner?" (meaning the parents of the character played by Sidney Poitier), is spoken by Katharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Guess
• Whose
• Coming
• To
• Dinner..SIdney
• Poitier..Katherine
• Hepburn..Spencer
• Tracy..

[neetrab]

I loved this scene...

"I OWE YOU NOTHING!" lol!!

Thanx for posting!

[valentinolover70]

@neetrab

You are welcome. :-))

[gotaiwo]

thanks, val

these are 3 of my most memorable scenes from this movie. now that's true LOVE!

[valentinolover70]

@gotaiwo

You are welcome. :-))

[candyFeb25]

wow! Thank you my Angie! I love Sidney Poitier. Thank you for this great upload :)

[valentinolover70]

@candyFeb25

Just saw this comment Candy.

You are welcome and thanx for watching.

Kisses

[tennisgorby]

Love Sidney Poitier's whole speech to his father

[DeedeeLuvsSidney]

I was waiting so long for someone to post these scenes! Thank you so much!

This is cinema excellence...period. <3

[jazzsoul60]

Before I broke my foot off in his selfish, ungrateful ass, he would have gotten cursed, no cuzzed out! Notice how Stanley Kramer made the whites the victim..

White men have raped Black Women for 300 years and white women have gotten Black Men Lynched, yet Royi Glenn is wrong.

Hollywood, LOL!

[Mitchaboi85]

Hello, check out my Sidney Poitier monologue and tell me what you think. Just type in Sidney Poitier Monologue and check out the one in black and white. Thnx

[differentandalike]

YOU SYMBOLIZE HOPE

[crassology]

I know it's just a character role but see what young sid says to his kid in 1997. based on his 30 year remark.