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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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaKatharine Hepburn never saw the completed movie. She said the memories of Tracy were too painful.
- 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
[last lines]
Matt Drayton: Now Mr. Prentice, clearly a most reasonable man, says he has no wish to offend me but wants to know if I'm some kind of a *nut*. And Mrs. Prentice says that like her husband I'm a burned-out old shell of a man who cannot even remember what it's like to love a woman the way her son loves my daughter. And strange as it seems, that's the first statement made to me all day with which I am prepared to take issue... cause I think you're wrong, you're as wrong as you can be. I admit that I hadn't considered it, hadn't even thought about it, but I know exactly how he feels about her and there is nothing, absolutely nothing that you son feels for my daughter that I didn't feel for Christina. Old- yes. Burned-out- certainly, but I can tell you the memories are still there- clear, intact, indestructible, and they'll be there if I live to be 110. Where John made his mistake I think was in attaching so much importance to what her mother and I might think... because in the final analysis it doesn't matter a damn what we think. The only thing that matters is what they feel, and how much they feel, for each other. And if it's half of what we felt- that's everything. As for you two and the problems you're going to have, they seem almost unimaginable, but you'll have no problem with me, and I think when Christina and I and your mother have some time to work on him you'll have no problem with your father, John. But you do know, I'm sure you know, what you're up against. There'll be 100 million people right here in this country who will be shocked and offended and appalled and the two of you will just have to ride that out, maybe every day for the rest of your lives. You could try to ignore those people, or you could feel sorry for them and for their prejudice and their bigotry and their blind hatred and stupid fears, but where necessary you'll just have to cling tight to each other and say "screw all those people"! Anybody could make a case, a hell of a good case, against your getting married. The arguments are so obvious that nobody has to make them. But you're two wonderful people who happened to fall in love and happened to have a pigmentation problem, and I think that now, no matter what kind of a case some bastard could make against your getting married, there would be only one thing worse, and that would be if - knowing what you two are and knowing what you two have and knowing what you two feel- you didn't get married. Well, Tillie, when the hell are we gonna get some dinner?
- 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
- tavm
- Feb 23, 2011
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- Release date
- 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
- $56,666,667