Raycliff Terrace. |
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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