Word: spencer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...claim to be called an American classic than The Show-Off. This season's second production of the APA Repertory Company (TIME, Dec. 8) opened in 1924, had 674 performances on Broadway, and has suffered countless amateur versions. It was filmed three times (with Gregory Kelly in 1926, Spencer Tracy in 1934, Red Skelton in 1947). And it was written by the grand old man of the U.S. stage, George Kelly, 80, actor, director, and uncle of the Princess of Monaco...
...characters and casting are all but archetypical. For a crusty old bear of a liberal newspaper publisher and his dashing, efficient career wife, who else but Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn starring in their ninth movie together? For the Negro fiancé, who else to choose but the smooth and handsome Sidney Poitier? What would Poitier's mother be if not sweet and sensitive, and Beah Richards (Raisin in the Sun, The Miracle Worker) is the best sweet-and-sensitive Negro mother in all of show business...
...time, and they knew it; ailing for years, Tracy died of heart failure less than three weeks after the picture was completed. His final performance was just exactly what it should be: a sincere, concentrated, honest portrait of a sincere, concentrated, honest man who might as well have been Spencer Tracy...
Married. Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, 45, Manhattan socialite daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, distant cousin of Winston Churchill; and Theodore Roubanis, 27, sometime actor, full-time playboy, and onetime companion of Actress Jeanne Moreau; she for the third time; in Philadelphia...