Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, 1967.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?, 1967.

San Francisco editor Matt (Spencer Tracy) gradually catches on as he greets wife Christina (Katharine Hepburn), daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) and new friend Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967.

Katharine Hepburn’s first scene, as San Francisco gallery owner Christina, alarmed that daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton, Hepburn’s real-life niece) has returned early from her travels, is reassured, until she meets Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, 1967.

From producer-director Stanley Kramer’s credits, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton (Katharine Hepburn’s niece, in her movie debut) arriving in San Francisco, at her mother’s gallery where Hillary (Virginia Christine) presides, in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, 1967, starring Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

Matt (Spencer Tracy) and Christina (Katharine Hepburn) getting ice cream, staying calm, upon learning that Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), meantime berated by their maid Tillie (Isabell Sanford), hopes to marry their daughter, in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967.

Hillary (Virginia Christine) with Joey (Katharine Houghton) and Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), whose engagement has just been revealed, then getting a momentous telling-off from her art gallery senior partner Christina (Katharine Hepburn), in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967.

Spencer Tracy's last film and last with Katharine Hepburn was this story of a liberal couple tested when their daughter brings home a black fiancee.