Love Me or Leave Me (film)

Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical romantic musical drama 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 pianistarranger Myrl Alderman, her second husband. It was written by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart. It was directed by Charles Vidor.

Love Me or Leave Me won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role James Cagney, Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Music, Song for Nicholas Brodzsky and Sammy Cahn for Ill Never Stop Loving You, Best Sound, Recording Wesley C. Miller and Best Writing, Screenplay.Most of the songs in the movie were 1930s hits that Etting had recorded originally. Two new songs, however, were written specifically for the film Never Look Back, by Chilton Price, and, Ill Never Stop Loving You, by Nicholas Brodzsky and Sammy Cahn. ........

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