Guess Who 's Coming At Dinner Directed By Stanley Kramer

First and foremost, Jim meets the Shimerda family who constantly face hardships through their tough journey to what they view as success. They are immigrants from Bohemia trying to find a life for themselves.

James McBride is the son of Ruth McBride and is only one of twelve mixed race children. McBride delves into his mother’s closed off past. Something she never allowed herself to share with any of her children. He grew up in the projects. Growing up McBride did not understand his mother; he was embarrassed, and baffled by her. It was not until he was a

Furthermore, this is about how she has been in poverty ever since she was a little girl, how it evolved her, and made her the type of person she is. Poverty: This starts off while Ms. Anne Moody was a little girl her father

The characters in the movie showed they were living in a time of poverty. Pete’s family

Anne Moody grew up in the south as a sharecropper on a plantation in the postwar south that still had Jim Crow controlling what the black population was able to do and what they couldn’t do. The Moody family was poor and was trying to make a living working for a white farmer. They and the other black plantation workers lived in a tiny two bed shack without electricity and plumbing, while the Carter’s house had both. Anne’s childhood was very difficult when her father decided to leave the family and have an affair with another black women. After this happened Anne, her mother, and her siblings moved around a lot while Anne’s mother, Toosweet, look for work. Eventually working as a waitress and as a maid for white families. Even while the family is struggling Anne continues to do well in school and decides to start working part-time as well to help put food on the table for the family. She was only in fourth grade. Some of white families that she worked for even encouraged her to continue her studies as she got to high school, while others were extreme racists and accused her and her brother of doing things that they didn’t do. As time went on Anne’s mother meets Raymond Davis and start a relationship with each other and Anne starts to enjoy her new life, but starts to get into several conflicts with her mother.

Ian’s family is American and they are the opposite of Toula’s family, they are part of the low context culture, like many other American families. One of the biggest differences is that Toula’s family is loud, big and always together and Ian’s family is small, quite, and only see each other on special occasions.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, and Katharine Houghton.

Between Miranda and Fredrick, we are given a short but in-depth look into the daily lives of these differing social classes. Miranda is obviously somewhere between middle-class and

     Joanna Drayton returns unexpectedly from Hawaii to announce her engagement to an intelligent, accomplished, world traveling doctor. The only problem with the intended union is that he is African American and she is white. The Drayton’s come face to face with their own principles and realize that their daughter is the way they brought her up to be – non-prejudicial. Turmoil and anxiety ensue as Joanna insists that her parents give their approval by the end of the night. A dinner with both sets of parents follows, where the parents must come to terms with the bi-racial marriage. This film gives an insightful look into the realities of interracial marriage and proves to be useful in examining the

The film “Guess who’s coming to dinner” surprised me. It was surprised me that a white girl and a black man would get married. It was surprising because in the 1960’s it wasn’t normal for a white and black person to get married. It surprised me that the mom was okay with their marriage so easily because I expected the mom to be like the dad and say no, but the mom was okay with her daughter marrying a black man because she knew it would make her happy. It stood out to me that Joanna didn’t care what her parents thought and told her parents that they were still going to get married even if they said no. It stood out to me that they were getting married so fast because I thought everything was happening really fast too just like their parents.

Stanley Kramer’s film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, explores the controversial issue of interracial marriage and reflects society’s prejudicial views during the 1960’s. In the 60’s, the concept of an interracial marriage was foreign. At the time, it was considered illegal sixteen states for two people of different races to wed.(Kramer 1967). Joanna Drayton, the white daughter of a wealthy newspaper editor, and Dr. John Prentice, the son of a black mail man fall deeply in love after ten short days together in Hawaii(Kramer 1967).The Drayton’s are wealthy and reside in the suburbs of San Francisco, where roughly only twelve percent of the town people are colored (Kramer 1967).Whereas, Dr. Prentice is from a low class family who live in Los Angeles. Statistically, the white race composes the majority of the middle and upper class.

In 1967 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner premiered and it was undeniably innovative at the time of its production. It’s portrayal of the relationship between a white woman and a black male, and the attempt of both white and black families to understand and accept such a coupling, no doubt made waves just three years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The film sought to showcase the social structures that intertwined race and relationships and the stress felt by both blacks and whites alike surrounding the subject. The piece properly reflects the greater socio-political background of the country in the 1960s regarding the dueling opinions of opposition and acceptance surrounding interracial marriage.

“You wouldn’t have married me if i’d been black?” This quote by Anne in Toby Wolff’s story “Say Yes” starts an argument between a husband and wife on the topic of interracial marriage. Differences between people, whether it is racial or gender can cause conflict and deep wounds in relationships.

The Hollywood movie “Guess Who” (2005) is a remake of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967). Both film’s premises are about the same situation of an interracial marriage. The original revolved around a daughter bringing her black fiancée to meet her white middle class family. This was a touchy and even controversial subject in 1967 but the film became an award winner. The 2005 update switches the roles around and with a stroke of genius we now have a white fiancée meeting a black family.

No Exit, a play written by Jean-Paul Sartre that debuted in 1944, has many similar themes to the movie The Breakfast Club, written and directed by John Hughes. The play No Exit is perceived as taking place in literal Hell and describes the interactions between those who have died and have been placed in a room together. In The Breakfast Club, students have been put in a metaphorical “hell,” detention, and spend a full day together in the school’s library. For characters in No Exit, trying to deal with other creates a living hell and ends with each of the characters hating one another because they do not help each other; while in The Breakfast Club the characters end up accepting each other after going through the same “hell” because they learn and accept each other.