"I'm not interested in having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl," said Sidney Poitier, after having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? "I'd much rather have romantic interludes with Negro girls." So he dreamed up a plot, handed it over to Screen Writer Robert Alan Aurthur, and stepped into the leading role opposite Abbey Lincoln in For Love of Ivy.
Poitier's idea was to present the first inside look at the life and love of a young Negro couple. Fine in theory, but why did he have to...
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