
Original Columbia Pictures Pressbook (11×17) for the Stanley Kramer interracial romance, GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967)—starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton. Tracy and Hepburn play a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiance who is black. Racial prejudice was common in 1967; indeed, the first interracial kiss on American TV did not occur until 1969 on Star Trek. People needed to hear the message that color and race should not prevent two people who love each other from getting married. The film received 10 Oscar nominations—including Best Actor (Tracy for his last film role), Best Director, and Best Picture. The film received the Oscar for Best Screenplay and Best Actress for the second time to Katharine Hepburn. People wanting to read more about this film should pick up a copy of Mark Harris’ book PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION (Penguin Press, 2008). This original pressbook has no excisions and is in very fine condition. 14 pages of great material. If this is a film you love, you will like the pressbook — an interesting look into how Columbia marketed this movie.