Love Me or Leave Me (Blu-ray)
Musical biography about singer Ruth Etting, focusing on Etting's troubled relationship with husband Martin Snyder, a low-class hood responsible for Etting's rags-to-riches stardom.
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.55:1
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 13, 2016
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Doris Day & James Cagney | |
Performer: | Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully, Harry Bellaver, Richard Gaines & Peter Leeds | |
Directed by | Charles Vidor | |
Edited by | Ralph E. Winters | |
Screenwriting by | Isobel Lennart & Daniel Fuchs | |
Composition by | Percy Faith | |
Subject: | Ruth Etting | |
Produced by | Joe Pasternak | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur E. Arling |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
As a highly colored biopic, it's is an enjoyable mix of Day putting her stamp on Etting's best known songs and the contrasting acting styles of Day and Cagney.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3/5 --
abrasively repetitious
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 3/4 --
A slow crawl through a hellish relationship.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: C+ --
Doris was called on to act dramatically and not just sing and be the girl-next-door.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/5 --
Truthfully told musical saga of '20s singer Ruth Etting with fine turn by Doris Day; Cagney eats up scenery.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: B+ --
Charles Vidor's crime-gangster musical, about the rise of fall of singer Ruth Etting, offers James Cagney (Oscar-nominated) and Doris Day some of the best dramatic roles of their careers.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything - the looks, the wiles, the smoky jazz voice, the it. She also had Martin "The Gimp" Snyder, the Chicago racketeer who, even as he propelled her career, afflicted her.
Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is a musical unlike any other, a tough-minded, fact-inspired tale of Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip that Etting escaped at great peril. As the gangster Snyder, James Cagney earned one of the film's six Oscar nominations. And Day's Etting was a career-best dramatic performance, one that brought acclaim from critics and protest letters from fans unprepared for the departure from her traditionally sunny roles.
Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is a musical unlike any other, a tough-minded, fact-inspired tale of Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip that Etting escaped at great peril. As the gangster Snyder, James Cagney earned one of the film's six Oscar nominations. And Day's Etting was a career-best dramatic performance, one that brought acclaim from critics and protest letters from fans unprepared for the departure from her traditionally sunny roles.
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