Saturday, May 14, 2011

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, a classic in every sense of the word


A 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton.

The film was groundbreaking for its positive representation of the controversial subject of interracial marriage, which historically had been illegal in most states of the United States, and was still illegal in seventeen southern American states up until June 12 of the year of the film's release, when it was legalized by the Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia.

It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose. The movie's Oscar-nominated score was composed by Frank DeVol. [2]


This my favorite scene


The last 5 seconds is cut off from this scene

Potier continues to say "But you see yourself as a colored man. I see myself as a man." Very powerful scene.

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