Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Columbia Pictures) (1967)

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Record Details:

Title:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Columbia Pictures)
Date:
1967
Publisher:
Columbia Pictures
Volume:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Columbia Pictures Pressbook, 1967)
Leaf #:
0003
Language:
English
Collection:
Pressbooks
Contributor:
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 27, 2022
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COLUMBIA PICTURES presents SPENCER TRACY / SI DNEY POITIER/ KATHARINE HEPBURN hes introducing KAT HARINE HOUGHTON written by WILLIAM ROSE: Produced and Directed by STANLEY KRAMER TECHNICOLOR® iz iA in STANLEY KRAMERSS production of (GUESS Who's COMING TO’ DINNE RA Production Notes GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER In many respects "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" can be ‘considered a "reunion" production, Produced and directed in Technicolor by Stanley Kramer, this new Columbia film stars three Academy Award-winners, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn. More, it marked the screen reunion of Tracy and Miss Hepburn, their first since "Desk Set," Their eight prior teamings, embracing drama and comedy--all film landmarks from "Woman of the Year" through "Keeper of the Flame," "Without. Love," "Sea'of Grass," "State of the Union," "Adam's Rib," "Pat and Mike" and "Desk Set"--led up to this new color film around the dinner table, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" -and here Kramer and screenwriter William Rose may take a bow -was the first script in some years to lure the veteran Tracy back to the Hollywood sound stages, Tracy and Kramer, of course, had worked together on "Inherit the Wind," "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad,World" and "Judgment at Nuremberg,’ For Sidney Poitier, too, the new film was a nostalgic reunion, His previous role for Kramer, in "The Defiant Ones," won him an Academy nomination, plus awards at the film festivals of Venice and Berlin, more —