Angel Island |
Views of Angel
Island and the bay grace the terrace of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy's
home in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Hepburn and Tracy play self-proclaimed
fighting liberals who are forced to face their true feelings when their
hopelessly optimistic daughter, played by Katharine Houghton, brings black
doctor Sydney Portier home from a trip to Hawaii and announces plans to
marry him. Superb film directed by Stanley Kramer in 1967 was Tracy's last.
Surprisingly fresh more than thirty years after it was made, Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner is an incisive look at race, love, and the mores of limousine
liberals. Some trivia: When Portier and Houghton arrive at SFO on a United
Airlines flight, they take Yellow Cab #1850 in town. The phone number of
the cab company is painted on the side of the car. Today, the same number
(626-2345) will still get you in touch with Yellow Cab. The fare for the
lovers' trip from the airport to downtown was $10.50. The fare in 2002,
approximately $30.00.
Raycliff
Terrace
Mel's
Diner, Spencer Tracy fender bender
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