For Love of Ivy

Infobox Film
name = For Love of Ivy


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director = Daniel Mann
producer = Edgar J. Scherick
Jay Weston
writer = Sidney Poitier (story)
Robert Alan Arthur (screenplay)
starring = Sidney Poitier
Abbey Lincoln
Beau Bridges
Nan Martin
Lauri Peters
Carroll O'Connor
music = Quincy Jones
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distributor = Cinerama Pictures Corporation
released = July 17, 1968
runtime = 101 min.
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:18133
imdb_id = 0062985

"For Love of Ivy" is a 1968 romantic comedy film directed by Daniel Mann. The film stars Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters and Carroll O'Connor. The story was written by Sidney Poitier with screenwriter Robert Alan Arthur. The musical score was composed by Quincy Jones.

Plot summary

Seeking to improve herself, Ivy Moore, an African-American maid, announces her decision to leave her job working for the Austin family and go to secretarial school. The Austins are desperate to keep her and the teenagers, Gena and Tim, hatch a scheme to do so. Tim Austin sets up Ivy with Jack Parks, a trucking company executive, to wine and dine Ivy Moore. He hopes that the introduction of excitement in her life will dissuade her from leaving the family. Tim Austin persuades a reluctant Jack Parks to date her by threatening to reveal his illegal gambling casino. Their initial meetings are awkward for the cosmopolitan Parks and the less sophisticated Moore. Eventually, however, romance blossoms, but when Moore learns that Parks was coerced into initially dating her, she breaks up with him. Parks overcomes his attachment to bachelorhood and asks Moore to marry him. She accepts.

Themes

While it isn't a race movie, or primarily about race, Jack Parks (Sidney Poitier) enjoys playing on the Austin children's racial stereotypes.

External links

*imdb title|0062985
*amg title|id=1:18133|title=For Love of Ivy
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