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Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Carroll O'Connor

Ivy Moore (Abbey Lincoln), housekeeper to a white family, is sick and tired of domestic service and dreams of leaving the Long Island residence of her employers for adventurous big-city living. Her em...( read more  read more... )ployers, however, don't want her to go. Just when it looks like she's about to exit the scene, one of her employers' children finds Jack Parks (Sidney Poitier), a handsome, eligible bachelor who could be a perfect love match for Ivy.

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G, 101 min.

Directed by: Daniel Mann

Release Date: July 17, 1968

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DVD Release Date: March 13, 2001

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  • CPerkins201655
    June 6, 2009
    CPerkins201655
    I '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. Poit...( read more)ier 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!
  • thesavvybamalady
    August 15, 2007
    thesavvybamalady
    Sydney Poitier plays this entreprenuer with a little extra gambling action on the side. One of his clients is a family who has a maid that gave her notice so she can better herself. The family's son and daughter make Sidney Poitier go out with her in order for her to stay with th...( read more)em, but as all things do, it hit the fan. Nice score by the late Shirley Horn(What Ivy Wants);
  • turtlelynn99
    June 8, 2007
    turtlelynn99
    And I only got to see the last hour! Can't wait to see it from the beginning.
  • lisam6086
    March 27, 2007
    lisam6086
    Sidney Poitier had me with his smile and charm. This movie had a great story line.
  • darwinkennedy
    January 23, 2007
    darwinkennedy
    This movie is a great love story. don't miss out on a gem

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