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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- TriviaIn the scene near the end where Spencer Tracy gives his memorable soliloquy, Katharine Hepburn can be seen crying in the background. This was not acting: she knew how gravely ill her longtime friend and lover was and was moved by his remarks about how true love endures through the years.
- GoofsThe car the Draytons are driving is a two-door sedan (with a pillar holding the roof up, and a full frame around the door glass) when seen in exterior shots. Once they're at the drive-in, it becomes a two-door hardtop (no pillar, and no frame around the glass).
- Quotes
John: You listen to me. You say you don't want to tell me how to live my life. So what do you think you've been doing? You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got, and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something. I owe you nothing! If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you're supposed to do! Because you brought me into this world. And from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me like I will owe my son if I ever have another. But you don't own me! You can't tell me when or where I'm out of line, or try to get me to live my life according to your rules. You don't even know what I am, Dad, you don't know who I am. You don't know how I feel, what I think. And if I tried to explain it the rest of your life you will never understand. You are 30 years older than I am. You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back! Dad... Dad, you're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man. Now, I've got a decision to make, hm? And I've got to make it alone, and I gotta make it in a hurry. So would you go out there and see after my mother?
- 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
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- Feb 22, 2011
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- 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
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