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">Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical film
which tells the
life story of Ruth Etting, a
singer who rose from dancer to movie star.
It stars Doris Day as Etting, James
Cagney as gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp"
Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron
Mitchell as pianist/ arranger Myrl Alderman, her second husband. It
was
written by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart.
It
was directed by Charles
Vidor.
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1897 – September 24,
1978) was an American singing
star and
actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and
worked in
stage, radio, and film. Her signature tunes were "Shine On
Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance",
and "Love
Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up
Your Overcoat", "Mean
to Me", "Exactly
Like You", and "Shaking the Blues Away."
Doris Day (born April 3, 1922)[1] is an American
actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Day's entertainment career
began in
her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental
Journey", and, in 1948,
appeared in her first film, Romance on
the High Seas. During
her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films,
recorded more
than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden
Globe and a Grammy
Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B.
DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
As of 2009, Day was the top-ranking female box office star of all
time and
ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male and female).[2]
She was so sexy there.James Cagney was great.Loved that man.
They should all see this wonderful performance on both.
I might rent this flick again.Those were great movies in them days.