Movie Night @ Park Slope Library : Celebrating Black History Month

** NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO FEBRUARY 29 **

Celebrate Black History Month by Revisiting a Classic! 

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

A tale of interacial love during the time of the Civil Rights Movement.

This American romantic comedy-drama stars Spencer Tracy (in his final role), Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn, and features Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. It tells the story of Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn), a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé (Sidney Poitier). 

In 1967, when Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was released, interacial marriage was still politically and socially unaccecptable. In fact, this was the same year that the Supreme Court finally ended anti-miscegenation laws in 17 states when it ruled against  verdict in Loving v. Virginia (1967), case, which involved 'a black woman and a white man who had been sweethearts since childhood.

• Director -Stanley Kramer
• Writer - William Rose
• Stars Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn

 

 

 

NOTE: Registration is encouraged but not required.