Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A White couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her Black fiancé.
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Released
- 1967
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1967
Storyline
A White couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her Black fiancé.
Top credits
Spencer Tracy — Matt Drayton
Sidney Poitier — John Prentice
Katharine Hepburn — Christina Drayton
Katharine Houghton — Joey Drayton
Awards
2 wins & 8 nominations
See all awards →Did you know
• In the scene near the end where Spencer Tracy gives his memorable soliloquy, Katharine Hepburn has tears in her eyes in the background. This was not acting; she knew that her longtime paramour was gravely ill and was moved by his remarks about how true love endures through the years.
• Katharine Hepburn never saw the completed movie. She said the memories of Tracy were too painful.
• Katharine Hepburn had to use her salary as backing in order to make this movie because Spencer Tracy was so ill that the studio didn't think that he would make it to the end of the picture. They didn't want to insure an actor who could possibly die in the middle of production but she refused to do the movie without him. He died 17 days after he finished filming his scenes.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $56,666,667