Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-07 (Friday)

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (4K disc) Slowly working my way through
another Sony Classics box set, and working my way through some Sidney
Poitier movies, I kicked it off this this 1967 drama starring Poitier as
a young man who meets his fiance's parents (Katharine Hepburn and
Spencer Tracy in his final role).  The movie was mostly background noise
with a pretty good commentary track full of lots of trivia I didn't
know.  For example the actress who played the fiance was Hepburn's real
life niece.  And while others were probably well aware of this, I think
this was the first I realized (also thanks to the commentary track) the
family maid was played by Isabel Sanford (from the Jeffersons).

She got a number of good scenes in it and was quite funny. There's a
good story about how she got cast but I've forgotten.

Poitier, would you believe, was 40 during production. That guy had a
picture of Dorian Gray in his attic.

I really don't like this movie. The Poitier character was too perfect, a
doctor and a great humanitarian and his parents were black intellectuals.

. . .