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Ivy is a 1947 American crime drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall and Richard Ney. It written by Charles Bennett, based on the 1927 novel The Story of Ivy by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. It was distributed by Universal Pictures. [1]
In 1909, the beautiful but amoral British belle Ivy Lexton meets older, rich Miles Rushworth; undeterred by the prior claims of her husband Jervis and lover Roger, she goes after Miles and has no trouble fascinating him, but oddly enough he has compunctions about making love to other men's wives.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Sam Wood
- 1947-09-03
Ivy is a 1947 American crime FILM NOlR directed by Sam Wood and written by Charles Bennett, based on the 1927 novel The Story of Ivy by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. The drama features Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall and Richard Ney.
- 99 min
The 1947 film Ivy, a murder mystery known in the trade as a "gaslight noir," is set in the Edwardian age and based on the novel The Story of Ivy, a 1927 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes.
- Sam Wood, John F. Sherwood
- Joan Fontaine
In England at the turn of the century, Ivy Lexton, a self-centered, seductive young woman, consults a fortune-teller, who portends that Ivy will come into an abundance of money as soon as she rids herself of one man and another enters her life.
In Edwardian London, ambitious Ivy Lexton (Joan Fontaine) finds herself saddled with feckless husband Jervis (Richard Ney) while resisting the advances of old flame Dr. Roger Gretorex (Patric Knowles) and not resisting those of the very wealthy Miles Rushworth (Herbert Marshall).
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Ivy Lexton (Fontaine) has a hunger to be wealthy, and setting her sights on well-to-do Miles Rushworth (Marshall), Ivy plots a fiendish plan that spells trouble for her husband Jervis (Ney) and her lover Roger (Knowles).
