For Love of Ivy

About For Love of Ivy

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 and dine her, but who won't marry her, thinking that this will distract her from her plans.

Daniel Mann's For Love of Ivy is a 1968 comedy romance film. The film is filed under gambling, black love, happy ending, and dinner date.

Sidney Poitier takes the lead as Jack Parks, Abbey Lincoln as Ivy Moore, Beau Bridges as Tim Austin, and Nan Martin as Doris Austin. At 101 minutes long, it arrived in July 1968.

The screenplay is by Robert Alan Aurthur.

Amélie and Lay the Favorite make useful companions to For Love of Ivy, all filed under romance.