A movie influence US familiesThe 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner by director Stanley Kramer broke ground on racial issues.Mike O’Sullivan spoke with the late director’s wife about the impact of the film, newly re-released on a 40th anniversary DVD.In 1967,16 states still had laws against interracial marriage, but attitudes were changing. In July of that year, the US Supreme Court overturned those state laws.The film came close to not being made, says Karen Kramer, who worited with her late husband Stanley behind the scenes on the movie.Kramer enlisted actors Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Sidney Poitier, and actress Katharine Houghton, who was Hepburn’s niece.The story concerned a young African-American doctor, played by Poitier, who wants to marry Houghton, a young white woman.They have not known each other long, but he is an ideal prospect, respected in his field and well mannered.But parents Hepburn and Tracy must deal with the fact he is black at a time when interracial marriages were frowned on.Poitier's character’s parents are also opposed to the marriage.
一部影响美国家庭的电影1967年由导演斯坦利・克雷默执导的电影《猜猜谁来吃晚餐》 首次探讨了种族婚恋问题。在该片推出40周年之际,记者迈克・奥沙利文采访了已故斯坦利・克雷默的遗孀,谈到了这部电影40年来所产生的影响。凯伦・克雷默是该片导演、已经过世的斯坦利・克雷默的遗孀。她和丈夫一起拍摄了这部电影。她说,这部电影当时差点就拍不成了。克雷默夫妇说服凯瑟琳・赫本、斯宾塞・特雷西、西德尼・波蒂埃以及凯瑟琳・赫本的侄女凯瑟琳・霍顿加盟演出。影片讲述的是一位由波蒂埃扮演的年轻非裔医生,希望能和由霍顿扮演的白人女孩结百年之好的故事。两个年轻人认识的时间不长,但是年轻的非裔医生却是一个理想的人,他在工作中广受尊重,而且彬彬有礼。但是赫本和特雷西扮演的父母却必须得面对现实,因为这个小伙子是黑人,而当时异族通婚不为人所接受。小伙子的父母也反对这桩婚事。
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