History YMMV / GuessWhosComingToDinner

* AwardSnub: It was nominated for ten UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s and won two, but Creator/SidneyPoitier wasn't up for Best Supporting Actor.

* AwardSnub: It was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won two, but Creator/SidneyPoitier wasn't up for Best Supporting Actor.

* HarsherInHindsight: During Tracy's monologue at the end, he mentions that the love he feels for his wife "will be there if I live to be 110!" He died weeks after the movie was finished.

* ValuesResonance: Although the race issues were clumsily handled for its times, and embarrassingly unwatchable today without wincing, you can understand the father's reticence about the preposterous idea of his daughter wanting to marry a man she only met 10 days ago.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Obviously, that interracial marriage isn't a bad thing. Considering the film was released only ''six months'' after the US Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriage, it's also SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* ValuesDissonance: Perhaps it's a measure of the progress made when you have this contrast in the audience reaction with a large portion of the population in 1967: "She's marrying a Negro; that's crazy!" to now: "She's marrying a man she only met 10 days earlier; that's crazy!"

* ValuesResonance: Although the race issues were clumsily handled for its times, and embarrassingly unwatchable today without wincing, you can understand the father's retinence about the preposterous idea of his daughter wanting to marry a man she only met 10 days ago.

*** Not to mention that they're going to be moving to another country, where Joanna doesn't know the language or anybody there.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Obviously, that interracial marriage isn't a bad thing. Considering the film was made only ''six months'' after the US Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriage, it's also SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Some people think it might've been nice if John's son had survived, so the audience could see his reaction to suddenly having a white stepmother who might not be much older than him.

* TearJerker:
** Creator/SpencerTracy's closing monologue of the film, the actor's last performance.
** Creator/KatharineHepburn never watched this movie because she couldn't stand to see Tracy's last work.

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* {{Anvilicious}}: Obviously, interethnic marriage. Considering the film was made only ''six months'' after the US Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriage, it's also SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* TearJerker: Tracy's closing monologue of the film, the actor's last performance.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Obviously, interethnic marriage.
** Considering the film was made only ''six months'' after the US Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriage, it's also SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
* HilariousInHindsight: John mentions that Joey believes that all their children, presumably even their daughters, will be president one day. More than 40 years later, there's [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama a part-African president]], and many believe that a woman will absolutely be elected soon after his terms are over.
** Furthermore, John and Joey met each other in Hawaii, just like Obama's parents did.

* HilariousInHindsight: John mentions that Joey believes that all their children, presumably even their daughters, will be president one day. Forty-four years later, there's [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama a part-African president]], and many believe that a woman will absolutely be elected soon after his terms are over.

* UnfortunateImplications: Christina brutally (and awesomely) fires her assistant (who is white) for loudly voicing a negative opinion of the marriage, but only scolds the maid (who is black) for doing much the same thing.

* HilariousInHindsight: John mentions that Joey believes that all their children, presumably even their daughters, will be president one day. Forty-four years later, there's a part-African president, and many believe that a woman will absolutely be elected soon after his terms are over.

** Considering [[TheSixties when]] it was made, it's also SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

** KatherineHepburn never watched this movie because she couldn't stand to see Tracy's last work.

** Considering [[TheSixties when]] it was made, also SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.