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Love Me or Leave Me

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Love Me or Leave Me
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NR,2hrs 2min
Genres:
Drama,Musical
Released:
January 1, 1955
Director:
Charles Vidor
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell  ...more
Synopsis: One of the gutsiest movie musicals of the 1950s, Love Me or Leave Me is the true story of 1930s torch-singer Ruth Etting, here played by Doris Day. While working in a dime-a-dance joint, Ruth is discovered by Chicago racketeer Martin "The Gimp" Snyder (fascinatingly played with nary a redeeming quality by James Cagney). The smitten Snyder exerts pressure on his show-biz connections, and before long Ruth is a star of nightclubs, stage and films. Ruth continues to string Snyder along to get ahead, ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
An MGM musical remarkably free of sentimentality, Love Me or Leave Me (1955) features top-billed Doris Day as 1920s and 30s blues singer Ruth Etting and James Cagney as her sadistic gangster husband Martin "The Gimp" Snyder. A more bitter than sweet view of Etting's real life rise to fame and her twisted relationship with Snyder, screenwriters Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart and director Charles Vidor ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Doris Day
Ruth Etting
James Cagney
Martin "The Gimp" Snyder
Cameron Mitchell
Johnny Alderman
Robert Keith
Bernard V. Loomis
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