It stars Sidney Poitier as a physician who wants to marry a young white woman (Katharine Houghton) from a rich Liberal family.
Still, interracial marriage is something that, even today, can get deeply frowned upon in certain communities.
But, being a comedy, things turn out all right in the end.
And while Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner definitely wouldn’t be considered a “black movie,” it does still deal with concepts that black people would be very familiar with. Just don’t watch the race-flipped remake, Guess Who starring Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac.