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Taking the Stage Gallery

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Exhibition

Taking the Stage

Created by

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919

Subject of

Poitier, Sidney, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022

Tracy, Spencer, American, 1900 - 1967

Katharine Hepburn, American, 1907 - 2003

Houghton, Katharine, American, born 1945

Directed by

Kramer, Stanley, 1913 - 2001

Date

1967

Medium

ink on paper

Dimensions

H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

Description

Lobby card features a color still from the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy are seated around a table in what appears to be an exterior shot with a lake and trees featured in the background. Tracy, seated to Poitier's right, reaches out to adjust a smiling Poitier's tie. Houghton's back is to the camera; seated to her left is Hepburn, who faces Poitier over r a plate of sandwiches. A white box with blue and red text in the bottom left corner reads, [Columbia Pictures presents a / Stanley Kramer / production / Spencer / Tracy / Sidney / Poitier / Katharine / Hepburn / guess who's / coming to dinner / and introducing / Katharine Houghton / Music by DeVol · Written by William Rose / Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer · Technicolor®]. Black type in the bottom left corner of the lobby card reads, [Copyright ©1967 by Columbia Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved].

Place printed

Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America

Classification

Memorabilia and Ephemera-Advertisements

Type

lobby cards

Topic

Actors

Film

Hollywood (Film)

Race relations

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number

2013.108.9.2

Restrictions & Rights

© 1967 Columbia Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved

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