Lobby card for the film Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Lobby card features a color still from the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Sidney Poitier stands to the far left of the frame and looks down at a seated Spencer Tracy while Katharine Hepburn sits to Tracy's right, perched on a bookshelf. Poitier and Tracy wear suit jackets while Hepburn wears a black cap and vest. A white box with blue and red text in the bottom left corner reads, [Columbia Pictures presents a / Stanley Kramer / production / Spencer / Tracy / Sidney / Poitier / Katharine / Hepburn / guess who's / coming to dinner / and introducing / Katharine Houghton / Music by DeVol · Written by William Rose / Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer · Technicolor®]. Black type in the bottom left corner of the lobby card reads, [Copyright ©1967 by Columbia Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1967
• Created by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
• Subject of: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022
• Subject of: Spencer Tracy, American, 1900 - 1967
• Subject of: Katharine Hepburn, American, 1907 - 2003
• Directed by: Stanley Kramer, 1913 - 2001
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
• Place printed: Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Race relations
• Object number: 2013.108.9.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1967 Columbia Pictures Corporation Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.