For Love of Ivy

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For Love of Ivy
Directed by	Daniel Mann
Produced by	Edgar J. Scherick Jay Weston
Written by	Sidney Poitier (story) Robert Alan Arthur (screenplay)
Starring	Sidney Poitier Abbey Lincoln Beau Bridges Nan Martin Lauri Peters Carroll O'Connor
Music by	Quincy Jones
Distributed by	Cinerama Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)	July 17, 1968
Running time	101 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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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.

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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.