For love of Ivy : screenplay / by Robert Alan Aurthur ; screen story by Sidney Poitier. 1967.

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For love of Ivy : screenplay / by Robert Alan Aurthur ; screen story by Sidney Poitier. 1967.

Ivy Moore, the Austin family's housekeeper and confidante for nine years, startles everyone by announcing that she is leaving to go to secretarial school. The family feels that Ivy's frustrations stem from the lack of a man in her life and decide to play matchmakers. The Austins' find debonair man-about-town Jack Parks and trick him into a love affair with Ivy. But things don't work out exactly as they planned.

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