For Love of Ivy
For Love of Ivy

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A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine her, dine her, but who won't marry her thinking that this will turn her aside from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in For Love of Ivy:

Sidney Poitier
Abbey Lincoln
Beau Bridges
Nan Martin
Lauri Peters
Carroll O'Connor

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A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine her, dine her, but who won't marry her thinking that this will turn her aside from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.

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EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyThis mediocre comedy, starring Poitier, became better known for its Oscar nominated song.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 7/10 by Dennis SchwartzIt's an equal opportunity offender: supporting both white and black bourgeois dreams.
User Review - 10/10 by Private Uthe cutest movie about to white teens who set their unsuspecting maid up with a man who was reluctant to date her but instead fell in love
User Review - 10/10 by Chris OI love the movie. I can totally understand Ivy being a ignorant country girl and Sidney being the cool city cat.
User Review - 10/10 by Ayona HI 've seen this movie at least a hundred times, and it never seems to bore me. I love the interaction between the characters, Ivy(Abby Lincoln) and Jack (Sidney Poitier). Oddly enough during the filming of this movie, sparks were flying between these two, so much so that Mr. Poitier proposed to Ms. Lincoln after the film was finished. They lived together for a while, then for one reason or another separated for while. Entered Ms. Diane Carroll who came on the scene and that was as we say was the end of any hope of reconcilliation between Lincoln and Poitier. Sidney and Diane did a broadway play of Porky and Bess which was later put on film and directed by Otto Priminger. The Leading role of Bess was played by none other then Dorthy Dandridge...who Sidney also fell in love with, but to his own failings, because of the more than hot and torrid affair between Dandridge and Priminger whom she bore a child for. The couple never married, due to the racial climate of the times, but their child was born with a rare disease and required to be institutionalized for some time. After Dandridge 's death, Priminger collected his daughter from the institution and move back to Germany, where he and she lived until his death. Oddly enough he said how much she remined him of Dorothy, in that she looked exactly like her mother. No one ever heard anything of her again. I love Sidney Poitier as an actor, I have several of his films...Blackboard Jungle, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, A Patch of Blue, To Sir with Love, The Jackal, Buck and the Preacher, The Long Ships, A Raisin in the Sun, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs, A Piece of the Action, Uptown Saturday Night, Lillies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night, Pressure Point, No Way Out, Sneakers, The Definant Ones, The Bedford Incident, The Mark of the Hawk, The Organization, The Wilby Conspirarcy, The Secret Life of Noah Dearborn, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and last but not least The Last Brickmaker in America. Yeah....I guess you couild say that I'm a Sidney Poitier fan...Gotta Love Him. If any of you get the chance please rent some of these vintage films you will not be disappointed in any of them. They are true treasures and eventhough most of the supporting actors/actresses or no longer with us...this was truly an era of great film noir. Enjoy!
User Review - 10/10 by Lee LThis movie is a great love story. don't miss out on a gem
User Review - 10/10 by Diana WAdorable, serious Black Real Romance and Beau Bridges is BRILLIANT
User Review - 10/10 by Darwin KThis movie is a great love story. don't miss out on a gem
User Review - 8/10 by Margaret MEasy to see why Poitier was so important.
User Review - 8/10 by Terrilynn WAnd I only got to see the last hour! Can't wait to see it from the beginning.

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