A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
- Won 2 Oscars
- 11 wins & 25 nominations total
- Mr. Prentice
- (as Roy E. Glenn Sr.)
- Tillie
- (as Isabell Sanford)
- Mailman
- (uncredited)
- Small Role
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaKatharine Hepburn had to use her salary as backing in order to make this movie because Spencer Tracy was so ill that the studio didn't think that he would make it to the end of the picture. They didn't want to insure an actor who could possibly die in the middle of production but she refused to do the movie without him. He died 17 days after he finished filming his scenes.
- GoofsDuring all the scenes on the patio, neither the clouds nor the water ever move, revealing the "lovely view" is merely a painted background.
- Quotes
Christina Drayton: [to her assistant, Hilary, in the driveway] Now I have some instructions for you. I want you to go straight back to the gallery - Start your motor - When you get to the gallery tell Jennifer that she will be looking after things temporarily, she's to give me a ring if there's anything she can't deal with herself. Then go into the office, and make out a check, for "cash," for the sum of $5,000. Then carefully, but carefully Hilary, remove absolutely everything that might subsequently remind me that you had ever been there, including that yellow thing with the blue bulbs which you have such an affection for. Then take the check, for $5,000, which I feel you deserve, and get - permanently - lost. It's not that I don't want to know you, Hilary - although I don't - it's just that I'm afraid we're not really the sort of people that you can afford to be associated with.
[Hilary opens her mouth to say something]
Christina Drayton: Don't speak, Hilary, just... go.
- Alternate versionsWhen Monsignor Ryan is added to the guest list, Joey goes to tell Tillie. Joey asks "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" and Tillie replies "Reverend Martin Luther King". Following the assassination of King, this was removed - Joey says she'll tell Tillie but we see nothing more. Several months later, this gag was restored.
- ConnectionsEdited into Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981)
- SoundtracksGlory of Love
(1936)
by Billy Hill
Sung by Jacqueline Fontaine at the restaurant
Sung offscreen by a chorus during opening and closing credits
Played in the score often
The film is dated, to be sure, by many things, from clothing to music, cars and expressions. At times the dialogue seemed a bit hokey, and others, simply brilliant. I swear, I half expected an entourage of go-go dancers to spontaneously burst through the streets of San Francisco. And if I never hear the "Story Of Love" ever again in my life, it would be too soon.
But I can't help but think that the more things change in thirty years, sometimes they remain the same. Certainly there's more examples of interracial couples today than thirty years ago, and therefore a greater degree of tolerance, but for a lot of narrow-minded individuals, it's still as controversial or "appalling" as it was thirty years ago.
Some of the lines actually had me laughing out loud, enjoying the moment as it follows into another well complimented scene. I'm speaking in particular of the scene where Katharine Hepburn fires her employee for her prejudicial views, and basically everything that follows that scene for the next five minutes.
I try my best to imagine what it would be like to be in the shoes of any character in the film, to appreciate what it might've been like for them, in that time, and while I think I can muster an inkling, I don't think my creativity is up to a challenge of that nature. And I think that ultimately, that's a good thing, and I'm grateful to those who came before.
- ToldYaSo
- May 9, 1999
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Pogodi ko dolazi na veceru
- Filming locations
- Mel's Drive-in - 5199 Mission Street, at Rolph Street, San Francisco, California, USA(ice cream drive-in location)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $56,666,667
- Gross worldwide
- $56,666,797