Spencer Tracy Kramer's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), Tracy's ninth and final film with Hepburn. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" explored the topic of interracial marriage, with Tracy playing a liberal-minded newspaper publisher whose values are challenged when his daughter wishes to marry a black man, played by Sidney Poitier. Tracy was happy to be working again, but he told the press the movie would be his last. To commence filming, Tracy had to be insured for the high premium of $71,000; Hepburn and Kramer both put their salaries in escrow until Tracy completed his scenes. In poor health, Tracy could
John Sheehan (actor) talking version of the film "Kismet" (1930), starring Otis Skinner and Loretta Young; a featured role in 1934's "Little Miss Marker", starring Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou; Michael Curtiz's "Kid Galahad" (1937), starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart; the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy "Woman of the Year" (1942); the classic biopic "The Pride of the Yankees" (1943), starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright; another 1943 biographical film, "Yankee Doodle Dandy", starring James Cagney; the Abbott and Costello comedy "Buck Privates Come Home" (1947); and the last film to be released in which he appeared