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 #:
0006
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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eae | ape The story takes place within 12 hours, from noon until the night jet leaves for New York, Tracy portrays a crusading San Francisco newspaperman, long a militant champion of justice, a highly respected member of the community. Miss Hepburn plays his wife, a gracious hostess and owner of a fashionable downtown art gallery. Sidney Poitier is seen as a brilliant young doctor, whose research and field work have taken him from the Congo to Hawaii, from San Francisco to Geneva, garnering him world honors en route, Cecil Kellaway has the delightful role of Monsignor Ryan (Mike, to friends), with the wit and wisdom accumulated over 70 years, Last, but by no means least, and providing the final "reunion" element, is New York actress Katharine Houghton (Hoe-ton) for whom "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" was a happy reunion with her aunt, Katharine Hepburn, Miss Houghton, who resembles her famous relative in looks, diction and energy, portrays the screen daughter of Tracy and Miss Hepburn, A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Miss Houghton studied drama in New York (where she appeared in four "underground" movies), later working in stock with the New Orleans Repertory Theatre and in two television shows, In New York on business, Kramer had telephoned Miss Houghton, inviting her to drop in for a chat. Aware that her famous aunt was to work for Kramer, the young girl dropped in, They "chatted" for more than three hours, Miss Houghton blissfully unaware that Kramer ~ More «