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{{Short description|1967 film by Stanley Kramer}}
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| name           = Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
| image          = Guess Who's Coming to Dinner poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Stanley Kramer]]
| writer         = [[William Rose (screenwriter)|William Rose]]
| producer       = Stanley Kramer
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Spencer Tracy]]
* [[Sidney Poitier]]
* [[Katharine Hepburn]]
* [[Katharine Houghton]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Sam Leavitt]]
| editing        = [[Robert C. Jones]]
| music          = [[Frank De Vol]]
| distributor    = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1967|12|11|New York City|1967|12|12|United States}}
| runtime        = 108 minutes<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Craddock |editor-first=Jim |url=https://archive.org/details/videohoundsgolde0000unse_u5f9/page/354/mode/2up |title=VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2005: The Complete Guide to Movies on Videocassette and DVD |location=Detroit |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |year=2004 |page=355 |isbn=978-0-7876-7470-0}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $4 million<ref name="BOM"/>
| gross          = $56.7 million<ref name="BOM">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0061735/ |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |title=Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) |access-date=September 13, 2023}}</ref>
}}
'''''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner''''' is a 1967 American [[Romance film|romantic]] [[comedy drama]] film produced and directed by [[Stanley Kramer]], and written by [[William Rose (screenwriter)|William Rose]]. It stars [[Spencer Tracy]] (in his final role), [[Sidney Poitier]], and [[Katharine Hepburn]], and features Hepburn's niece [[Katharine Houghton]].

The film was one of the few of the time to depict an [[interracial marriage]] in a positive light, as interracial marriage historically had been illegal in many states of the United States. It was still illegal in 17 states, until June 12, 1967, six months before the film was released, and scenes were filmed just before [[anti-miscegenation laws]] were struck down by the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] in ''[[Loving v. Virginia]]''.

The film was the ninth and final on-screen pairing of Tracy and Hepburn. Tracy was very ill during filming but insisted on continuing. Filming of his role was completed just 17 days before his death in June 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061735/|title=Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)|date=December 12, 1967|work=IMDb|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-date=June 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616192451/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061735/|url-status=live}}</ref> Hepburn never saw the completed film, saying it would be too painful for her.{{sfn|Andersen|1997|p=306}} The film was released in December 1967, six months after Tracy's death.

In 2017, on its 50th anniversary, the film was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-178/|title=2017 National Film Registry Is More Than a 'Field of Dreams'|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=December 13, 2017|archive-date=December 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213180919/https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-178/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-10-13|publisher=Library of Congress|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305191832/https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|url-status=live}}</ref> The film's [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-nominated score was composed by [[Frank De Vol]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |url=https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whitbu/page/1018/mode/2up |title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955–2001 |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |publisher=[[Record Research]] |year=2001 |page=1018 |isbn=978-0-89820-147-5 |url-access=registration}}</ref>