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Love Me Or Leave Me

1955, Movie, NR, 122 mins

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Unlike many musical bios of the day, LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME provides a hard-edged love story, augmented with Jazz Age tunes, chronicling the life and times of Prohibition-era torch singer Ruth Etting. This was a once-in-a-lifetime role for Doris Day, who is terrific as Etting in a part unlike any other she played, calling for her to be alternately sizzling in performance and naive offstage. James Cagney is equally sensational as Marty "The Gimp" Snyder, the ruthless gangster wh... read more leave a comment
Year: 1955
Rated NR

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Cast
Doris Day: Ruth Etting
James Cagney: Martin "The Gimp" Snyder
Cameron Mitchell: Johnny Alderman
Robert Keith: Bernard V. Loomis
Tom Tully: Frobisher
Harry Bellaver: Georgie

 

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