"the South meeting real African Americans and gaining first-hand exposure to the plights of blacks facing racism. Martin played a speaking line extra. ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" (1967), starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, was a groundbreaking film for its positive representation of the controversial subject of interracial marriage, which had been illegal in most of the United States. The film tells the story of Joanna Drayton, a white woman who falls in love with Dr. John Prentice, played by Poitier. Martin plays “Frankie,” whose car is accidentally struck by Matt Drayton, played by Tracy, prompting a"
"Kramer's ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" (1967), Tracy's ninth and final film with Hepburn. ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" explored the topic of interracial marriage, with Tracy playing a liberal-minded newspaper publisher whose values are challenged when his daughter wishes to marry a black man, played by Sidney Poitier. Tracy was happy to be working again, but he told the press the movie would be his last. To commence filming, Tracy had to be insured for the high premium of $71,000; Hepburn and Kramer both put their salaries in escrow until Tracy completed his scenes. In poor health, Tracy could"
"Tracy left MGM in 1955, and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite an increasing weariness as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness. Tracy became estranged from his wife in the 1930s, but never divorced, conducting a long-term relationship with Katharine Hepburn in private. Towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director Stanley Kramer. It was for Kramer that he made his last film, ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" in 1967, completed just 17 days before his death. During his"
"December 12, 1987, on the 20th anniversary of the original release. The film was released on DVD on May 22, 2001. ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" was a box-office hit in 1968 throughout the United States, including in Southern states where it was traditionally assumed that few white filmgoers would want to see any film with black leads. The success of this film challenged that assumption in film marketing. Despite this success, which included numerous film award nominations, Frank Rich of ""The New York Times"" wrote in November 2008 that the film was frequently labeled as dated among liberals. Another"
"Hepburn, living what she described as a quiet life: reading, painting, and listening to music. On June 10, 1967, 17 days after completing what was his last film role in ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"", Tracy awakened at 3:00 am to make himself a cup of tea in his apartment in Beverly Hills, California. Hepburn described in her autobiography how she followed him to the kitchen: ""Just as I was about to give [the door] a push, there was a sound of a cup smashing to the floor—then clump—a loud clump."" She entered the room to find Tracy lying dead"
"Guess Who (film) Guess Who is a 2005 American comedy film about race relations directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. It is a loose remake of ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"", a 1967 film that was one of the first to portray interracial marriage between a black man and a white woman in a positive way. This remake version covered the topic of a white man with a black woman. The film stars Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, and Zoe Saldana. The majority of the film was filmed in Cranford, New Jersey. Theresa Jones (Zoe Saldana) takes her boyfriend, Simon Green (Ashton"
"Katharine Houghton Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress and playwright. She portrayed Joanna ""Joey"" Drayton, a white American woman who brings home her black American fiancé to meet her parents, in the 1967 film ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"". Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film was, in real life, Houghton's aunt. Houghton was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the second child of Marion Hepburn and Ellsworth Grant. She attended Kingswood-Oxford School and Sarah Lawrence College, where she majored in philosophy and art. Houghton was named after her maternal"
"is about Richards and others. Beah Richards Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, and author. Richards was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her supporting role in the film ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" in 1968, as well as winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest roles in the television series ""Frank's Place"" in 1988 and ""The Practice"" in 2000. She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the"
"Helen Hunt (hair stylist) Helen Hunt was a hair stylist in Hollywood movies from the 1930s up to 1967, when she worked on ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"". She was the chief hair stylist for Columbia Pictures. Hunt fell into her career by accident. She was working as a stenographer for a costume company in Omaha, Nebraska. She began washing and arranging the company's wigs on her own time because they were being neglected. When she went into a shop to look over a display of wigs, she was offered a job by the owner, George Westmore of Hollywood. This"
"escape."" In a scene noted by Spoto as an example, a Nazi passenger is ""barking inanities"" about how Germans should purify their race, to which a German-Jewish passenger responds, ""There are nearly a million Jews in Germany. What are they going to do—kill us all?"" For his fourth film about the sensitive subject of anti-racism, he both directed and produced ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" (1967), a groundbreaking story about interracial marriage. It starred Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn, winning two Academy Awards with eight nominations. It has been listed in the top 100 films over the last"
"the Second"" (1936), followed by ""Dark Manhattan"" (1937). His other film credits include ""The Jackie Robinson Story"" (1950), ""Carmen Jones"" (1954), ""Porgy and Bess"" (1959), ""The Sound and the Fury"" (1959), ""A Raisin in the Sun"" (1961), with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil, and a memorable turn as Mr. Prentice (the father of Poitier's character) in the 1967 film ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"". Roy Glenn's last big screen appearance was in ""Support Your Local Gunfighter"" (1971). Glenn's wife is Pauline ""Lilla"" (née Fractious). They have three children, Roy Glenn Jr., Darryl Ward Glenn, and Renatta Darlene Glenn."
"at the box office, the commercial peak of his career, with three popular films, ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner""; ""To Sir, with Love"" and ""In the Heat of the Night"". The last film featured his most successful character, Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, detective whose subsequent career was the subject of two sequels: ""They Call Me Mister Tibbs!"" (1970) and ""The Organization"" (1971). Many of the films in which Poitier starred during the 1960s would later be cited as social thrillers by both filmmakers and critics. Poitier began to be criticized for being typecast as over-idealized African-American characters who were"
"the ""Visions of Sugarplums"" episode of ""Bewitched"". In 1967, Kellaway played the part of a lonely, megawealthy much older suitor of Ann Marie (played by Marlo Thomas) in an episode of ""That Girl"". Other TV appearances included ""Valentine's Day"", ""Burke's Law"", ""The FBI"", and ""The Greatest Show on Earth"". Kellaway's last films included ""Spinout"" (1966), ""The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin"" (1967) and ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" (1967), which earned him another Oscar nomination. He appeared in episodes of ""The Ghost & Mrs. Muir"" and ""Nanny and the Professor"" and the TV version of ""Kismet"" (1967). His final performances included"
"Last Vegas Last Vegas is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub, written by Dan Fogelman and starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline and Mary Steenburgen. The plot surrounds three retirees who travel to Las Vegas to have a bachelor party for their last remaining single friend. The film was released to theaters on November 1, 2013, by CBS Films. Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam are childhood friends from Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, who are now living in their senior years. Sam and his wife Miriam are living mundane lives in Naples, Florida. Archie,"
"Nuremberg"". One of her most notable roles was as Hilary St. George, the bigoted co-worker of the Katharine Hepburn character in the 1967 film ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"". In addition to her work in films, Christine also appeared in numerous television series. In the 1950s, she appeared in multiple guest roles on ""The Abbott and Costello Show"", ""Four Star Playhouse"", ""Dragnet"", ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"", ""The Ford Television Theatre"", ""Gunsmoke"", ""Science Fiction Theatre"", ""Matinee Theatre"", ""Father Knows Best"", ""Trackdown"", ""State Trooper"", """", ""The Rifleman"", ""Letter to Loretta"", and ""General Electric Theater"". In November 1959, Christine co-starred as the wife of"
"1967 in film The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film, with ""revolutionary"" films highlighting the change, including: ""Bonnie and Clyde"", ""The Graduate"", ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"", ""Cool Hand Luke"", ""The Dirty Dozen"", and ""In the Heat of the Night"". ""The Born Losers"" was released in 1967 and earned $2.25 million in U.S. and Canadian rentals. It was re-released in 1974 and by 1977 it had earned $12.5 million in U.S. and Canadian rentals with a reported total gross of $36,000,000. The highest-grossing 1967 films"
"Beah Richards Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, and author. Richards was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her supporting role in the film ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" in 1968, as well as winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest roles in the television series ""Frank's Place"" in 1988 and ""The Practice"" in 2000. She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 1965 production of ""The Amen"
"The Last Killer The Last Killer (a.k.a. Django the Last Killer) is a 1967 spaghetti western movie starring George Eastman and Anthony Ghidra. Ramon's father has a small farm and like all the other poor farmers around, he owes money to a rich rancher, landgrabber John Barrett. Ramon embarks to deliver the due money to Barrett but along the way he is ambushed, robbed and beaten unconscious. As soon as he can, he gets to Barrett after all. Begging Barrett for more time, he recognises one of the robbers among Barrett's employees. He thinks Barrett will help him now, only"
"1981. His last finished work was the screenwriting for the successful 1997 TV film Last Stand at Saber River starring Tom Selleck. He was in a relationship with actress Julie Adams. Ronald M. Cohen Ronald M. Cohen (December 23, 1939, Chicago, Illinois – April 21, 1998, Los Angeles, California) was a US American screen writer and film producer. His screenwriting career started in the 1960s and he studied Film at New York University. His screenwriting career encompassed Blue (1968 film), the 1977 film Twilight's Last Gleaming and the 1984 TV series Call to Glory. In 1977 he wrote a script"
"it a ""laugh-out-loud riot."" The Last Film Festival The Last Film Festival is a 2016 American comedy film starring Dennis Hopper, Leelee Sobieski, Katrina Bowden, Chris Kattan, and Jacqueline Bisset. It is written and directed by Linda Yellen. It was filmed in 2010, shortly before Hopper died. After extensive delays, the film was finally released theatrically in Los Angeles on September 30, 2016, followed by a VOD release. Monterey Media acquired the distribution rights in June 2016. There are over 4,000 film festivals around the world. Where would you go if your film was turned down by 3,999 of them?"
"release on November 13, 2018. The Last Movie The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written by Stewart Stern and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips. Production of the movie, which cost $1 million, took place in the film's major setting, Peru. Kansas (Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed"
"The Last Film Festival The Last Film Festival is a 2016 American comedy film starring Dennis Hopper, Leelee Sobieski, Katrina Bowden, Chris Kattan, and Jacqueline Bisset. It is written and directed by Linda Yellen. It was filmed in 2010, shortly before Hopper died. After extensive delays, the film was finally released theatrically in Los Angeles on September 30, 2016, followed by a VOD release. Monterey Media acquired the distribution rights in June 2016. There are over 4,000 film festivals around the world. Where would you go if your film was turned down by 3,999 of them? When an obscure film"
"June 2009, but was dropped from their catalogs in 2011. A loose remake of the same name was released in 2006, starring Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Alicia Witt, and Gérard Depardieu. Last Holiday (1950 film) Last Holiday is a 1950 British film featuring Alec Guinness in his sixth starring role. The low-key, dark comedy was written and co-produced by J. B. Priestley and directed by Henry Cass, featuring irony and wit often associated with Priestley. Shooting locations included Bedfordshire and Devon. George Bird (Guinness), an ordinary, unassuming salesman of agricultural implements who inexplicably speaks"
"latest film is a documentary about flamboyant Hollywood producer Allan Carr, famous for producing ""Grease"", ""Can't Stop the Music"", ""La Cage Aux Folles"", and the notorious 1989 Academy Awards. It made its debut at the 2017 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). It features interviews with Patricia Birch, Maxwell Caulfield, Steve Guttenberg, Randy Jones, Randal Kleiser, Sherry Lansing, Lorna Luft, Michael Musto, Robert Osborne, Brett Ratner, Connie Stevens, Alana Stewart, Marlo Thomas, Bruce Vilanch and more. On June 20, 2015 San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival presented Jeffrey with The Frameline Award. The award is designed to honor those who have made"
"for Male and Female in a Play. In November 2010, Leon directed Phylicia Rashad in the world premiere stage play ""Every Tongue Confess"" written by Marcus Gardley, which ran at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Leon has also directed plays at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Huntington Theater Company in Boston, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the Goodman Theater in Chicago among many others. In January 2012, he completed a Lifetime Original Television remake of ""Steel Magnolias"". Other projects includes the world premier of a staged adaptation of the 1967 film ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"""
"2019, and there is no word as of yet who is starring in the film. The theatrical release is set for June 12, 2020. In February 2017, Peele curated the Brooklyn Academy of Music film series ""The Art of the Social Thriller"", comprising 12 films that inspired the making of ""Get Out"", including the horror films ""Rosemary's Baby"", ""Night of the Living Dead"", ""The Shining"", ""Candyman"", ""The People Under the Stairs"", ""Scream"", ""The Silence of the Lambs"", ""Funny Games"", ""Misery"", and the thrillers ""Rear Window"", ""The 'Burbs"", and the 1967 racial comedy-drama ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"". As a comedian,"
"The Last Fling The Last Fling is a 1987 American made-for-television romantic comedy film directed by Corey Allen, written by Mitchel Katlin, and starring John Ritter and Connie Sellecca. Attorney Phillip Reed is tired of one-night stands. He then meets a woman at the zoo, Gloria Franklin, who is getting married in 2 weeks. When she meets Phillip, she lies to him and tells him her name is Marsha Lyons. The two hit it off right, away and Gloria/Marsha tells Phillip she'll call him. Gloria/Marsha doesn't plan on ever calling him back, but when she calls her soon-to-be groom and"
"Davis, Humphrey Bogart and George Brent; ""Meet John Doe"" (1941), directed by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck; the screwball comedy, ""The Man Who Came to Dinner"" (1942), starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, and Monty Woolley; and ""Edge of Darkness"" (1942), starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan; Her final appearance would be in a supporting role in 1949's ""One Last Fling"", starring Alexis Smith and Zachary Scott, after which she retired from the film industry. Williams would die on November 16, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, and was cremated and interred at Chapel of the Pines Crematory."
"The Last Movie Star The Last Movie Star is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Adam Rifkin. The film stars Burt Reynolds, Ariel Winter, Clark Duke, Ellar Coltrane and Chevy Chase. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, 2017. It was released through DirecTV Cinema on February 22, 2018, before being released in a limited release and through video on demand on March 30, 2018, by A24. An aging movie star is invited to a small, local film festival in Nashville. He attends and goes on a journey throughout his"
"won the 1971 BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. Bogdanovich cast the 21-year-old model Cybill Shepherd in a major role in the film and fell in love with her, an affair that eventually led to his divorce from Polly Platt, his longtime artistic collaborator and the mother of his two daughters. Bogdanovich followed up ""The Last Picture Show"" with the popular comedy ""What's Up, Doc?"" (1972), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks's ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938) and ""His Girl Friday"" (1940). Despite his reliance on homage to bygone cinema, Bogdanovich solidified his status as one"
"Peter Bogdanovich Peter Bogdanovich (Serbian: Петар Богдановић, ""Petar Bogdanović"", born July 30, 1939) is an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian. He is part of the wave of ""New Hollywood"" directors, and his most critically acclaimed and well-known film is the drama ""The Last Picture Show"" (1971). Bogdanovich also directed the thriller ""Targets"" (1968), the screwball comedy ""What's Up, Doc?"" (1972), the comedy-drama ""Paper Moon"" (1973), ""They All Laughed"" (1981), the drama ""Mask"" (1985), and ""The Cat's Meow"" (2001). His most recent film, ""She's Funny That Way"", was released in 2014. Bogdanovich was born in Kingston, New"
"romp"" but ""gives us silliness that keeps toppling into stupidity."" The Last Fling The Last Fling is a 1987 American made-for-television romantic comedy film directed by Corey Allen, written by Mitchel Katlin, and starring John Ritter and Connie Sellecca. Attorney Phillip Reed is tired of one-night stands. He then meets a woman at the zoo, Gloria Franklin, who is getting married in 2 weeks. When she meets Phillip, she lies to him and tells him her name is Marsha Lyons. The two hit it off right, away and Gloria/Marsha tells Phillip she'll call him. Gloria/Marsha doesn't plan on ever calling"
"long illness at a West Los Angeles convalescent home on February 28, 1973. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and four grandchildren. His gravesite is at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Cecil Kellaway Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a British/South African character actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both ""The Luck of the Irish"" (1948) and ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" (1967). Cecil Kellaway was born on 22 August 1890 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was the son of English parents, Rebecca Annie (née"