East Side - West Side

1923 Drama 63 minutes Directed by Irving Cummings

About East Side - West Side

Lory goes to work for a rich family and falls in love with the son. His mother, strict about class, tries to pay her to go away. Lory refuses the money and will not bend the bargain.

Cast & crew

More about East Side - West Side

Irving Cummings directed. Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring wrote the script. The release date given in sources is 1 June 1923.

Themes

A job in a rich house
A son and a mother
A payoff refused
Lory
rich family
class
payoff
romance

Background

A 1923 silent drama released on 1 June.

Making

Cummings shot the silent as a class romance: a working young woman inside a rich household, and a mother who tries to buy her off.

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

Eileen Percy plays Lory. Kenneth Harlan plays the son.
Maxine Elliott Hicks, Lucille Hutton, Lucille Ward, Wally Van, and Betty May are in the cast.

Scenes

The mother offers Lory money to leave her son. Lory turns it down.

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (EAST SIDE - WEST SIDE (1923).webm)