Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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SYNOPSIS

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award® 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 fiancé 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.

Credits

DIRECTED BY:

Stanley Kramer

PRODUCED BY:

Stanley Kramer

SCREENPLAY BY:

William Rose

CAST:

Spencer Tracy [Matt Drayton]; Sidney Poitier [John Wade Prentice]; Katharine Hepburn [Christina Drayton]; Katharine Houghton [Joey Drayton]; Cecil Kellaway [Monsignor Ryan]; Beah Richards [Mrs. Prentice]