Cinematic Breakfasts: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner | Reel LivesCinematic Breakfasts: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner | Reel Lives

Settle into a morning of nostalgia with a warm coffee and fresh croissant, as we showcase timeless classics on the big screen. Booking is required for catering.

Doors Open: 10.30AM. Film: 11AM.

Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Spencer Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Katharine Hepburn), returns home with her new fiancé John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished black doctor.

Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; the doctor's parents are equally dismayed.

Among the few feature films of its time to positively portray an interracial marriage (at the time, still illegal in 17 states) and with scenes filmed directly prior to anti-miscegenation laws being struck down by the Supreme Court, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (screening from a new 4K restoration) remains a powerful, necessary, and poignant classic.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner © 1967 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.