For Love of Ivy (1968)

Directors

Daniel Mann

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters

The story

Ivy Moore, a 27-year-old African-American woman, has worked as a maid for the department store owning Austin family of Long Island, New York, for nine years, since being brought by them from Florida, where she was raised by her grandmother. Despite protestations that they treat her as a part of the family, she announces her decision to leave her job and go to secretarial school and improve her situation. The Austins are desperate to keep her, and the teenagers, Gena and Tim, hatch a scheme to do so.

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