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1949

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2023

2025

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Film Still, East Side, West Side

This is a Film Still. It was textile artist: Dorothy Wright Liebes and production directed by Mervyn LeRoy and decorated by Edwin B. Willis and the art director was Cedric Gibbons and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.. It is dated 1949. Its medium is reproduction. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


While difficult to capture in still photography, the scattered reflections that characterized Liebes’s Lurex-laden fabrics were ideal for motion pictures, where they created shimmering effects in urban apartments and night spots. Her woven metallic screens and draperies formed a glittering backdrop to the intrigue in the nightclub noir film East Side, West Side.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

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