Still image from the 1950 film East Side, West Side.

East Side, West Side

Directed by Mervyn Leroy

A chic New York couple is torn apart by a seductive model.

1950 1h 48m Drama TV-G

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CAST
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Mervyn Leroy, Director
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Mervyn Leroy
Director

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Barbara Stanwyck, Jessie Bourne
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Barbara Stanwyck
Jessie Bourne

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James Mason, Brandon Bourne
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James Mason
Brandon Bourne

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Van Heflin, Mark Dwyer
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Van Heflin
Mark Dwyer

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Ava Gardner, Isabel Lorrison
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Ava Gardner
Isabel Lorrison

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Cyd Charisse, Rosa Senta
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Cyd Charisse
Rosa Senta

FULL SYNOPSIS

Alone late one night in the tony Gramercy Park, New York apartment she shares with her husband Brandon, Jessie Bourne receives a mysterious phone call from someone who hangs up when she speaks. While Jessie ponders the meaning of the strange call, her philandering husband is out enjoying himself at the Del Rio night club. There, model Rosa Senta gently admonishes Brandon for going out and leaving his wife home alone. Brandon replies by offering Rosa his playboy creed, explaining that "just because a man has one perfect rose at home, doesn't mean he can't enjoy the flowers of the field." Brandon's philosophizing is cut short by the arrival of Isabel Lorrison, Brandon's beautiful and sharp-tongued former mistress, who forces Rosa to leave. Isabel, back from a long stay in Paris, is intent on rekindling her romance with Brandon, but Brandon warns her to stay away because he is now faithful to his wife. Later, as Brandon is leaving the club, Isabel's date for the night, Alec Dawning, who knows Brandon's playboy reputation, knocks him unconscious. Brandon is rescued by Rosa, who takes him to her home, where he remains until early the next morning. Returning home just before dawn, Brandon tells Jessie that he was attacked by a bum, an excuse that she thinks is just another among the many she has heard before and ignored. Later that day, socialite Helen Lee reminds Jessie about her upcoming party for ex-police officer Mark Dwyer, whose book Helen's husband Owen is ...


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ARTICLES
A soap opera about infidelity and murder among New York socialites, East Side, West Side (1949) boasts a superlative cast and M-G-M's usual high gloss production values. The East Side is represented by wealthy Jessie (Barbara Stanwyck), who learns that her philandering husband Brandon (James Mason) is once again seeing his former mistress Isabel (Ava Gardner). Distraught, Jessie turns for comfort to former cop and working-class West Sider Mark (Van Heflin), who investigates when Brandon is implicated in a murder. This was the third film together for Stanwyck and Heflin, and according to Ella Smith in Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck, they are "an excellent screen team - extremely natural together. They make acting look deceptively easy." Stanwyck's work in East Side, West Side is particularly subtle, playing a quiet character who keeps her emotions in check. There is nothing showy or flamboyant about what she does, but she manages to convey her inner turmoil. As Smith writes, "She has a way of holding tears or strong emotion back - and then letting her voice break on the last word of a line.....The technique is a standard one, but difficult to do; unless it is supported by real emotion it will not convince." The showy role in East Side, West Side belongs to Gardner, playing the predatory Other Woman. By the time she was cast in the film, Gardner had been under contract at M-G-M for seven years, and had advanced from playing bit parts to second leads, or leading lady roles...

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NOTES

According to a September 1947 Hollywood Reporter news item, M-G-M paid $200,000 for the film rights to Marcia Davenport's novel. An August 1948 Los Angeles Times news item noted that Greer Garson was considered for a starring role. According to a June 1949 Hollywood Reporter news item, M-G-M negotiated with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert to play the leading roles. A contemporary news items list Arlene Dahl and Mary Astor in the cast, but they did not appear in the released film. While early Hollywood Reporter production charts list actor Reginald Gardner in the cast, he was not in the film and it is possible that his name was confused with Ava Gardner's, whose name replaced his in all charts from August 12, 1949 on. Contemporary sources indicate that some background footage used was shot in New York City for the film.
       East Side, West Side marked actress Gale Sondergaard's last film for twenty years. Sondergaard, along with her husband, producer-director Herbert Biberman, was blacklisted following hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. For additional information, please see entry above for Crossfire.

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