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Jul 2, 2021 · The drama compounds when Joanna insists that John ask his parents to join them for dinner at the Drayton home that night. John calls his parents to share the news of his engagement and extend the dinner invitation. But, fearing his parents’ reaction, he excludes the fact that Joanna is white.
Aug 21, 2014 · Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (Directed by Stanley Kramer in 1967) tells the story of Joey Dayton, (played by Katharine Houghton) a young white woman who falls in love with a black man by the name of John Prentice (Sidney Poitier). After only spending ten days together on vacation in Hawaii, Joey and John decide to get married. The happy couple quickly makes a visit to Joey’s parents ...
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Feb 2, 2017 · Kramer challenged Southern white audiences early in the film with a kiss between John Prentice (Poitier), a Yale-educated doctor and humanitarian, and his white fiancee, Joey Drayton (Katharine...
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton. A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
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Jan 20, 2023 · The movie fares best when director Kenya Barris (creator of ABC’s “Black-ish”), who also co-wrote the screenplay with Hill, gathers his large cast in the same room and lets them cut loose ...
Mar 6, 2024 · She portrayed Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a white woman who brings home her black 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 Houghton's aunt.
Nov 13, 2009 · Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner followed the story of a young white woman (Houghton) who brings her fiance (Poitier), an African American doctor, home to meet her parents, played by Hepburn and ...
