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East Side, West Side

  • 19491949
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
2.3K
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35,091
5,153
East Side, West Side (1949)
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Play trailer2:26
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DramaRomance
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself be be seduced by a former girlfriend.A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself be be seduced by a former girlfriend.A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself be be seduced by a former girlfriend.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
35,091
5,153
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Writers
      • Isobel Lennart(screen play)
      • Marcia Davenport(novel)
    • Stars
      • Barbara Stanwyck
      • James Mason
      • Van Heflin
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Writers
      • Isobel Lennart(screen play)
      • Marcia Davenport(novel)
    • Stars
      • Barbara Stanwyck
      • James Mason
      • Van Heflin
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 47User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews

    Videos1

    East Side, West Side
    Trailer 2:26
    East Side, West Side

    Photos55

    James Mason and Ava Gardner in East Side, West Side (1949)
    Van Heflin and Cyd Charisse in East Side, West Side (1949)
    Barbara Stanwyck and Cyd Charisse in East Side, West Side (1949)
    James Mason and Ava Gardner in East Side, West Side (1949)
    James Mason and Barbara Stanwyck in East Side, West Side (1949)
    Barbara Stanwyck and Nancy Reagan in East Side, West Side (1949)
    James Mason and Ava Gardner in East Side, West Side (1949)
    James Mason and Ava Gardner in East Side, West Side (1949)
    James Mason and Ava Gardner in East Side, West Side (1949)
    Barbara Stanwyck in East Side, West Side (1949)
    Barbara Stanwyck in East Side, West Side (1949)
    James Mason and Barbara Stanwyck in East Side, West Side (1949)

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    Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck
    • Jessie Bourne
    James Mason
    James Mason
    • Brandon Bourne
    Van Heflin
    Van Heflin
    • Mark Dwyer
    Ava Gardner
    Ava Gardner
    • Isabel Lorrison
    Cyd Charisse
    Cyd Charisse
    • Rosa Senta
    Nancy Reagan
    Nancy Reagan
    • Helen Lee
    • (as Nancy Davis)
    Gale Sondergaard
    Gale Sondergaard
    • Nora Kernan
    William Conrad
    William Conrad
    • Lt. Jake Jacobi
    Raymond Greenleaf
    Raymond Greenleaf
    • Horace Elcott Howland
    Douglas Kennedy
    Douglas Kennedy
    • Alec Dawning
    Beverly Michaels
    Beverly Michaels
    • Felice Backett
    William Frawley
    William Frawley
    • Bill the Bartender
    Lisa Golm
    Lisa Golm
    • Josephine
    Tom Powers
    Tom Powers
    • Owen Lee
    Dorothy Abbott
    Dorothy Abbott
    • Model
    • (uncredited)
    Mimi Aguglia
    Mimi Aguglia
    • Grandma Senta
    • (uncredited)
    Joel Allen
    • Interne
    • (uncredited)
    Ernest Anderson
    Ernest Anderson
    • Redcap at Airport
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Writers
      • Isobel Lennart(screen play)
      • Marcia Davenport(novel)
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    • Trivia
      Gale Sondergaard, who plays Barbara Stanwyck's character's mother, is only eight years older in real life (at the time of filming, 50 and 42, respectively).
    • Goofs
      When Isabel takes Brandon back to her apartment after unexpectedly popping into his office, one can hear her putting ice into glasses as she fixes drinks. But subsequently no ice is seen in either of their glasses.
    • Quotes

      Nora Kernan: Jessie looks wonderful tonight.

      Brandon Bourne: She has you to thank for her looks, darling.

      Nora Kernan: And you! When a woman gets more beautiful after she's married, it means her man is either making her very happy or very unhappy.

      Brandon Bourne: Oscar Wilde?

      Nora Kernan: No, Belasco.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Moving Pictures (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Blue Moon
      (1934) (uncredited)

      Music by Richard Rodgers

      Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

      Played at Lee party

    User reviews47

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    Likable melodrama
    Stanwyck and Heflin have a palpable chemistry here, and Ava Gardner is a most alluring vixen. Cyd Charisse is a delectable ingenue (and a tall drink of water), while Gale Sondergaard is hilarious as a hard-bitten, hoydenish Amazon floozie. Stanwyck is playing about 10 years younger than her actual age (her film mother admits to being 55, when Stanwyck is in her early forties here, and while still handsome, she does look her age).

    Mervyn Leroy did a nice job of combining the noir/woman's-picture genres, though its ennoblement of Stanwyck robs her of her strengths as a no-nonsense woman, good or bad. Her scene with Gardner is a standout -- both actresses are well matched; Gardner's feline beauty and laissez-faire romantic approach nicely complements Stanwyck's humane fatalism -- and Stanwyck and Van Heflin are an appealing couple. Mason is rather a chump, however -- he seems to be underplaying to the point of lethargy, though his handsome charm surfaces here and there; yet he and Stanwyck, though matched in terms of age (she was younger by a couple of years) are not the type for each other; he doesn't suit her, screen-wise. Heflin's naturalism -- a performance of great charm and likability -- is more suited to Stanwyck's style and one longs for them to get together. Great use of sets to evoke New York, teeming with nightlife, and Leroy always had a knack for directing extras so that the city scenes seem peopled with real lives rather than populated with stand-ins. Costumes, though late 1940s, seem a bit recherche, as if the designer hadn't left the 1930s, with the women's gowns too ornate for such a sophisticated post-war milieu.

    Not a great picture by any means, but a highly enjoyable one; a viewer wishes the director and screenwriter -- the talented Isobel Lennart, who later wrote "Two for the Seesaw," among many others -- had trusted more in the chemistry between Heflin and Stanwyck, and discarded some of the Marcia Davenport source material, juicy as it must have been. This is from Stanwyck's late-1940s string of women's flicks, which did not play to her strengths. But middling Stanwyck is usually better than anyone else's best. And the underrated Van Heflin is worth rooting for, too.
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    • rjhughes2
    • Jul 12, 2003

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    • Release date
      • July 21, 1950 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Istocna strana, zapadna strana
    • Filming locations
      • Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Budget
      • $1,754,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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