Poster for East Side, West Side
I know it’s soapy but I love the cast and the Isobel Lennart script is snappy. #EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
Poster for East Side, West Side
I know it’s soapy but I love the cast and the Isobel Lennart script is snappy. #EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
Honestly, all Brant should have said was "It was Ava Gardner"
Jess:
#TCMParty #EastSideWestSide
I'm sorry but there's no world in which I would believe Barbara Stanwyck hates hockey and James Mason hates poetry. (This movie is an engaging pulpy melodrama but what a weird cast.) #EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
I want to know what attracted Jess to this loser in the first place?
#EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
How cute is Cyd Charisse in #EastSideWestSide. Even alongside Ava Gardner and Stanny, she shines #TCMParty
(And then he would have been in a film with Ava, which would have been a whole other kind of interesting.) #DVRTheater #TCMParty #EastSideWestSide
Knowing the history of anti-Italian prejudice in the U.S., it's just really interesting to see this moment when they were flirting with the IDEA of Italians but keeping them at arm's length.
But just a few years later, I bet they'd have gotten Sinatra. #DVRTheater #TCMParty #EastSideWestSide
And as I said, when Heflin takes Stany to meet the Italians -- we don't see it
We cut right to them coming out of the building afterwards. #DVRTheater #TCMParty #EastSideWestSide
Back to Heflin -- it looks like there weren't a ton of Italian-American actors in those days, but they could've had Robert Alda or Don Ameche or someone. (Sinatra and Martin were a little young for it and hadn't yet started doing dramatic roles.) But nope. #DVRTheater #TCMParty #EastSideWestSide
Cyd Charisse plays an actual Italian character, at least. She's lovely & charming and it's fun to see her in an early role, but she isn't Italian either. (At least the actress playing her grandma is). #DVRTheater #TCMParty #EastSideWestSide
Getting back to it -- Van Heflin represents the Italians, but he's so obviously non-Italian he has an elaborate backstory about having been found & adopted by an Italian. #DVRTheater #TCMParty #EastSideWestSide
Just got done watching #EastSideWestSide again. I like it, but I find it amusing that Stanwyck going to meet the lower-class Italians is a big plot point, and yet we never see an Italian (except 1 elderly actress who's there for about 3 minutes and says almost nothing). #DVRTheater #TCMParty
Cannon is on the case!
#EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
If you need a melodramatic score for your melodrama, Miklós Rózsa is your composer.
#EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
Please just kick that cheater to the curb, Jess. So not worth it. 🚩 #EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
I honestly wouldn't trust Van Heflin around aircraft. #JustSaying
#EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
"Coffee?"
"Yes, I know."
#EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
Sorry to miss the last Stanwyck #SOTM night, #TCMParty, but skating's on. (Recording #EastSideWestSide later, though.) Have fun!
That was a pleasant surprise. Woke up to find I’d forgotten I had set autotune on the DVR to #EastSideWestSide.
#TCMParty
#EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
CREDIT: 🥰 These gifs I have a huge crush on are from...
https://aintthatakick.tumblr.com/post/187589096236
gif part 2... ❤️🔥
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#EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
THIS SCENE
Where all Van Heflin does is touch her face when he says goodbye...
I will watch the entire movie over just to see these 6 seconds again.
#EastSideWestSide #TCMParty
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