Gardner, dressed in stark white with suitable cleavage, roams around the room like a restless tiger. Gardner gets the showier part as a trashy babe (a role Stanwyck might have played in her younger years). Stanwyck, the elder of the two, has the larger role of a wealthy Park Avenue woman: chic, well-mannered, cultured.
They portrayed the two women in Mason’s life, wife (Stanwyck) and lover (Gardner), and they were given a single scene to confront the situation. The headliners were Barbara Stanwyck and Ava Gardner, appearing together for the first and only time. Ronald Reagan), James Mason (at his most suave), and Gale Sondergaard and Van Heflin (both Oscar winners). Based on a soap-opera-ish novel by Marcia Davenport, East Side, West Side put MGM’s assets on show: Cyd Charisse (in a non-dancing role), Nancy Davis (soon to be Mrs. In 1949, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that boasted “more stars than there are in the heavens,” released one of its typical productions.
Ava Gardner and Barbara Stanwyck in East Side, West Side, 1949
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