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Tracy plays a liberal newspaper editor who comes home one afternoon to find his daughter (Katharine Houghton) engaged to a too-too successful doctor (Sidney Poitier) who, in the jargon of the early 60's, "happens to be a Negro." Of course the liberal editor turns out to have trouble practicing what he preaches, whereon the plot of the movie is hinged. William Rose's screenplay offers humor (the girl's parents' reaction on meeting Poitier; his parents' reaction on meeting Miss Houghton), suspense (who will talk to whom in which room next?), and incisive social commentary (we are brothers...
...recently discovered manuscript of Leo Tolstoy advising all young men to resist military conscription is being published in the February issue of The Atlantic Monthly and given to Houghton Library by the magazine...
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. Stanley Kramer's new film sets out bravely to face the problems of the marriage of a Negro man (Sidney Poitier) to a white girl (Katharine Houghton), but retreats into sugary platitudes despite the rallying performances of Spencer Tracy, as the girl's liberal but reluctant father, and Katharine Hepburn, as her sentimental mother...
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. Stanley Kramer's new film sets out bravely to face the problems of the marriage of a Negro man (Sidney Poitier) to a white girl (Katharine Houghton) but retreats into sugary platitudes despite the rallying performances of Spencer Tracy, as the girl's liberal but reluctant father, and Katharine Hepburn, as her sentimental mother...
...movie was both a fond farewell for Katharine Hepburn's old friend and a professional coming out for her niece, Katharine Houghton, 22, who plays the daughter. She has Hepburnesque coloring, high cheekbones and broad A's, and she is far more convincing than most stage daughters. As an actress, she has little to do but bubble with in nocent enthusiasm; Kramer has sidestepped anything as embarrassing as an integrated love scene...