East Side, West Side (1949 film)

East Side, West Side is a 1949 melodramatic crime film, starring Barbara Stanwyck as a wronged wife and Ava Gardner in one of her earliest roles, along with James Mason and Van Heflin. Based on a novel by Marcia Davenport and a screenplay by Isobel Lennart, the film was produced by Voldemar Vetluguin, directed by Mervyn Leroy and distributed by MetroGoldwynMayer.

Brandon eventually returns home in the wee hours to find Jessie waiting up and tells her that he was working late, stopped for a drink, was knocked out by a drunk, and then rescued by Rosa. He explains how Rosa knows Jessie. The next morning, Jessies friend Helen Lee Nancy Davis calls on her, presumably to remind her of the Lees party that night for an intelligence officer and exNYPD beat cop Mark Dwyer Van Heflin returning to the States from postwar service in Italy. Both women have already seen the morning newspaper in which the nightclub brawl is frontpage news. After much prodding, Jessie confesses to Helen that she is afraid of what will happen to her marriage with Isabel back in town. Jessie says she intends to live her life normally, including going shopping. She decides to go to the dress salon where Rosa works to hear for herself what transpired at the club. Once there, Jessie takes Rosa aside to thank her for rescuing Brandon. Rosa confirms Brandons storya relief to Jessie. As thanks, Jessie offers to take Rosa to LaGuardia Airport to pick up Mark Dwyer, whom Rosa has had a longstanding crush on.As he is leaving his office for Helens party, Brandon is visited by Isabel, who manages to entice him to her apartment. Jessie goes to the Lees party alone when Brandon is a noshow and becomes better acquainted with Mark. Dwyer explains the crush Rosa has on him and that she would have gotten over it long ago except that he was overseas. Jessie finds out that Brandon is with Isabel and begins to leave the party Mark, tired of being celebrated throughout the day for his return to the States, and falling hard for Jessie, offers to escort her home. They talk, and he remains with her until Brandon returns. After Dwyer leaves, and although they argue viciously, Brandon convinces Jessie of his love, they make up, and he proposes a trip to Virginia. ........

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