
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967)
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.


“Stands alone! First as a book... Now as a motion picture!”
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

Robert Mitchum
Lucas Marsh

Olivia de Havilland
Kristina Hedvigson / Kristina Marsh

Frank Sinatra
Alfred Boone

Gloria Grahame
Harriet Lang

Broderick Crawford
Dr. Aarons

Charles Bickford
Dr. Dave W. Runkleman

Myron McCormick
Dr. Clem Snider

Lon Chaney Jr.
Job Marsh

Jesse White
Ben Cosgrove

Harry Morgan
Oley
Not as a Stranger is a drama, romance film released in 1955 exploring themes of marriage crisis, surgeon, marriage of convenience, doctor, operating room, intern. Directed by Stanley Kramer, it stars Robert Mitchum, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra. Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
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