Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Guess who's coming to dinner [videorecording] / a Stanley Kramer production ; written by William Rose ; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer.

Edition:

40th anniversary ed.

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2008.

Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.

Series:

Stanley Kramer film collection.

Subjects:

Interracial marriage -- Drama.

Racism -- Drama.

Parent and adult child -- Drama.

Parental acceptance -- Drama.

Families -- Drama.

Matrimonio interracial -- Teatro.

Racismo -- Teatro.

Padres e hijos -- Teatro.

Melodrama.

Romance films.

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Kramer, Stanley.

Rose, William, 1914-1987.

Tracy, Spencer, 1900-1967.

Poitier, Sidney.

Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003.

Houghton, Katharine.

Columbia Pictures.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

At head of title: Columbia Pictures presents.

Notes:

DVD release of the 1967 motion picture.

Special features: Introductions by Tom Brokaw, Quincy Jones, Karen Kramer and Steven Spielberg; "A love story of today" featurette; "A special kind of love" featurette; "Stanley Kramer: a man's search for truth"; 2007 Producers Guild of America "Stanley Kramer" Award presentation to Al Gore; Stanley Kramer accepts the Irving Thalberg Award; photo gallery.

Director of photography, Sam Leavitt ; editor, Robert C. Jones ; music, DeVol.

Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton.

DVD ; Region 1 ; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 3.0, remastered in High Definition.

In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with English, French or Spanish subtitles ; Closed-captioned.

Academy Awards, 1967: Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn) ; Best Original Screenplay (William Rose)

Contents:

Disc one: Feature film -- Disc two: Special features.

ISBN:

1424869005

9781424869008

Publisher Number:

21100

22129

Other Number:

156915599

System Availability:

4

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

4

Control Number:

346600

# Local items in:

4

# System items in:

4

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Guess wh

Medium:

[videorecording]