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re: BBC Radio play on the making of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER?
Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:53 pm EST 11/29/20
In reply to: BBC Radio play on the making of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? - MockingbirdGirl 01:48 pm EST 11/29/20

Did the lifestyle represented by Hepburn and Tracy in this movie really qualify as "middle class" in 1967? They seem to occupy a mansion on a hill in San Francisco and employ a full time maid/cook and another part time person who works in their house.

Looks like fabulous wealth to me, but then I know the difference in the classes has shifted since then.
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re: BBC Radio play on the making of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER?
Posted by: dbdbdb 02:27 pm EST 11/29/20
In reply to: re: BBC Radio play on the making of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? - JereNYC 01:53 pm EST 11/29/20

The characters in the film definitely quality as upper-middle class. Let's call it upper-upper-middle class.
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re: BBC Radio play on the making of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER?
Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 02:34 pm EST 11/29/20
In reply to: re: BBC Radio play on the making of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? - dbdbdb 02:27 pm EST 11/29/20

That sounds about right. After all, consider the source: they're "middle class" in the British sense of being neither working class nor aristocratic toffs. :-)
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