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 #:
0004
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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a Producer-di rector Kramer, in whose earlier films many of the men and womén working for him have won Academy Awards, is himself the recipient of the Academy*s highest accolade, the Irving Thalberg Award for consistent high quality in production (1961). Actors who have been so honoréd aré Gary Cooper for "High Noon," Jose Ferrer for "Cyrano de Bérgérae" and Maximilian Schell for "Judgement at Nuremberg." William Rose, who wrote the original screenplay for "Guess Who's Goming to Dinner," was a nominee for Academy laurels for his script of "Thé Rtussiahs Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming." Rose, continuing that "reunion" theme, was previously with Kramer on "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Adding another Oscar to the golden line-up is cinematographer Sam Leavitt, whose photography for "Whe Defiant Ones" won him an award, and doubtless a glow on the part of Kramer, who produced and directed. Similarly, produetion designer Robert Clatworthy, often a nominee, won his award for "Ship of Fools," also a Stanley Kramer production, And maintaining this happy Oscar line-up is designer Jean Louis, who won his award for "The Selid Gold Cadillac." Sorry, that wasn't a Stanley Kramer production, but "Ship of Fools" was, and Mr. Louis designed Vivien Leigh's wardrobe for that. All in all, both before and behind the camera, it was a "reunion" for the men and women, all tops in their profession, who had previously teamed their multiple talents, and have the honors to prove Av,