Double Feature: GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, 1967, Sony Repertory, 108 min. October 2, 2011

Sunday, October 2 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, 1967, Sony Repertory, 108 min. Dir. Stanley Kramer. Matt and Christina Drayton (Hollywood power couple Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) are in for a surprise when daughter Joey (Hepburn's real-life niece Katharine Houghton, in a Golden Globe-nominated performance) brings home her fiancé, black doctor John Wade Prentice (Sidney Poitier). The aging couple's supposedly liberal attitudes are challenged during one dramatic and hilarious day and evening, which culminates in the last-minute arrival of Prentice's parents and an Irish priest for dinner. Nominated for a whopping 10 Oscars, including a win for Best Actress (Hepburn) and Screenplay. [35mm]
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ADAM'S RIB, 1949, Warner Bros., 101 min. Dir. George Cukor. "It’s the hilarious answer to who wears the pants!" The sixth pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is arguably their funniest, with the two playing happily married attorneys whose domestic bliss is spoiled when they wind up squaring off in court over a woman accused of murdering her husband. Terrific, sharp-tongued script by the real-life husband-wife team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. [35mm]
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Discussion between films with actress Katharine Houghton in a rare in-person appearance. Be sure not to miss the book signing of James Curtis' Spencer Tracy: A Biography at 6:30 PM in the Egyptian lobby - books available for sale at this screening 20 days ahead of the official publication date!

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