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

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 #:
0005
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: ae The story is set in tocay's San Francisco, where e..teriors were filined at the International Airport, on some of the city's principal streets, and in one of the upper-income residential areaS overlooking the Bay. Interiors were filmed at Columbia Studios in Hollywood, calling for a unique approach in architectural design and engineering on the part of production designer Robert Clatworthy. With approximately 90 per cent of the story set in and around the Tracy-Hepburn home, Clatworthy designed one of the largest single sets in Hollywood history, completely filling Columbia's Stage 9 to the point where stars! dressing rooms, wardrobe racks and other supnvlies, normally on the same stage, had to be placed on an adjoining stage. Of French-Colonial flavor, the "home" was created exactly like a normal house to incorporate the entire downstairs section, all rooms connecting, This included the entry hall, living room, study, sewing room, dining room, pantry and kitchen, Facing the rear of the house was a large multi-level patio and garden, The set covered an area of slightly more than 10,000 square feet, and was notable for its variety of "flooring" -an asphalt driveway, brick entrance, oak entry hall, wall-to-wall carpeting, a parquet floor in the den, vinyl linoleum in pantry and kitchen, brick on the patio and tile garden walks. Paintings valued at more than 390,000 were rented from five leading Los Angeles art galleries to decorate the rooms.