Stanley Kramer film collection.
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Lawson McGhee Library - Feature Films - Media collectionDVD FEATURE STANOn Shelf

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Published
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008].
Language
English
ISBN
9781424869060, 1424869064
UPC
043396211070

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General Note
Title from container.
Participants/Performers
Guess who's coming to dinner: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton ; Ship of fools: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer ; Member of the wedding: Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon de Wilde ; Wild one: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith ; 5,000 fingers of Dr. T.: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy.
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Guess who's coming to dinner: When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.
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Ship of fools: In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
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Member of the wedding: Frankie, a motherless 12-year-old struggling with the ackwardness of adolescence, makes naive plans to join her older brother and his bride on their honeymoon. When she is turned down, the humiliated Frankie runs away and quickly discovers the harsh realities of the adult world.
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Wild one: Johnny is the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hellbent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop.
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5,000 fingers of Dr. T: Young Bart Collins dreams of his piano teacher, Dr. Terwilliker. Dr. T wants to prove that his method of teaching piano is the best method in the world. He banishes all other musical instruments and lures 500 boys to perform on the biggest grand piano ever built.
Target Audience
Not rated.
System Details
DVD.
Language
Closed-captioned.
Awards
Academy Awards, 1968: [Guess who's coming to dinner] Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen (William Rose) ; Best Actress in a Leading Role (Katharine Hepburn).
Awards
BAFTA Film Awards, 1969: [Guess who's coming to dinner] Best Actor (Spencer Tracy) ; Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn) ; UN Award (Stanley Kramer).
Awards
Golden Globes, 1953: [The member of the wedding] Special Award for the Best Juvenile Actor (Brandon De Wilde).
Awards
National Film Registry, 2017: [Guess who's coming to dinner]

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kramer, S., Anhalt, E., Anhalt, E., Zinnemann, F., Waters, E., Harris, J., De Wilde, B., Paxton, J., Benedek, L., Brando, M., Murphy, M., Keith, R., Marvin, L., Seuss, D., Scott, A., Rowland, R., Hayes, P. L., Healy, M., Conried, H., Rettig, T., Mann, A., Lee, V., Signoret, S., Ferrer, J., Werner, O., Ashley, E., Segal, G., Greco, J., Dunn, M., Korvin, C., Ruehmann, H., Skala, L., Rose, W., Tracy, S., Poitier, S., Hepburn, K., Houghton, K., McCullers, C., & Rooney, F. (2008). Stanley Kramer film collection . Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Stanley. Kramer et al.. 2008. Stanley Kramer Film Collection. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Stanley. Kramer et al.. Stanley Kramer Film Collection Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kramer, Stanley., et al. Stanley Kramer Film Collection Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008.

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