East Side, West Side (1949) (MOD) "Cornish Pixie"

East Side, West Side (1949) (MOD) "Cornish Pixie"Isabel Lorrison is a good time girl destined for a bad time fate: a murder victim on a mortuary slab. But who killed her? A casual pickup? An envious girlfriend? A philandering husband with an eye for beauty? Or the man's wife, who had every motive to put her hands around Isabel's perfect neck and squeeze? Barbara Stanwyck stars as the wronged wife in this sleek mystery melodrama, giving a strong, sympathetic performance as a woman whose life is at a

Directed by George Cukor

If the title and the premise are more familiar via its zippy 1941 remake starring Red Skelton as the radio sleuth "The Fox

a professor of mathematics

Led by criminal mastermind Brain

and one Ravenclaw mug

blondacious Joan Blondell

) and dallies with Warren's dame to dig up the dirt on Santee

The heart blood of a virgin

The film is based on a bestseller by Lloyd C

battle an epidemic in the children's ward

Scooby-Doo and the Gang run for their mummies as ancient mysteries unravel

' phase of her illustrious film career on a high note - elevating what could have been a lurid melodrama into a sensitive