Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (41:57)
Wouldn’t you want perfect Poitier as your son-in-law? Maybe not if you’re “liberal” old coots Hepburn and, in his only AFI film, Tracy. Yup, race is the topic in another T100P podcast. This one isn’t subtle, but the actors are legends, so they’re worth watching. Is our podcast worth your time? Of course! Fire that thing up.
LINKS:
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner on Wikipedia
Links to: Stanley Kramer and William Rose
Info about the overturning of the interracial marriage law
1967 Academy Award winners and nominees
Links to: In The Heat Of The Night and Dog Day Afternoon
YouTube links: Sidney Poitier’s fiery conversation with his father and Spencer Tracy’s final monologue
Next week on the T100P: The Graduate
CA trivia: it took some digging and memory refreshing for me to get this one, but I have: it’s ‘Giant.’
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