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 and Katharine Houghton's torsos face each other while both have their heads turned towards to the right of the frame; their glances are focused on something or someone off camera. Houghton wears a sleeveless, cream-colored blouse while Poitier wears a navy blue suit jacket and a patterned tie with repeated concentric circles. A white box with blue and red text in the bottom right 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
• Manufactured by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
• Subject of: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022
• Subject of: Katharine Houghton, American, born 1945
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on poster board
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Race relations
• Object number: 2014.134.6
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

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.