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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
is a 1967 American
comedy-drama film
produced and directed by
Stanley Kramer
, and written by
William Rose
. It stars
Spencer Tracy
,
Sidney Poitier
,
Katharine Hepburn
and featuring Hepburn's niece
Katharine Houghton
. The film contains a (then rare) positive representation of the controversial subject of
interracial marriage
, which historically had been illegal in most states of the United States, and still was illegal in 17 states—mostly
Southern states
—until 12 June 1967, six months before the film was released, roughly two weeks after Tracy filmed his final scene (and two days after his death), when
anti-miscegenation laws
were struck down by the
Supreme Court
in
Loving v. Virginia
. The movie's
Oscar
-nominated score was composed by
Frank DeVol
.
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