Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (1967 Stanley Kramer)

We thought Hepburn Katharine would be giving Houghton Katharine help with her performance - it turns out they are aunt/niece ('Aunt Katty') and shared a familial oddity of enjoying swimming in ice cold water (Hepburn's shake is a family tremor which Houghton thought she would inherit eventually). They all knew Tracy was dying - thus the scene at the end when he says how much he loves Hepburn has a very real and special quality to it. He went three weeks after filming - Houghton interview here.

William Rose also wrote The Maggie, The Ladykillers, The Smallest Show on Earth, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Secret of Santa Vittoria and The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!

Sam Leavitt shot it, music by de Vol.