Love Me or Leave Me (film)
- Doris Day: Ruth Etting
- James Cagney: Martin Snyder
- Cameron Mitchell: Harry Alderman
- Robert Keith: Bernard V. Loomis
- Tom Tully: Frobisher
- Harry Bellaver: Georgie
- Richard Gaines: Paul Hunter
- Peter Leeds: Fred Taylor
- Claude Stroud: Eddie Fulton
- John Harding: Greg Trent
Love Me or Leave ( Original: Love Me or Leave Me) is an American movie musical with Doris Day and James Cagney from 1955 will tell the life story of singer and actress Ruth Etting, who was romantically involved with a gangster who promoted their careers., they at the same time tormented with his " tyrannical love."
Action
The young Ruth Etting works during the 1920s as a singer in a small shabby dance club in Chicago. She dreams of a great career. One day she meets a Mafia gangster Martin Snyder know who wants to help her with his contacts in the night club scene going to be a big star. He gives her promising engagements and even its own radio show. Ruth, who is increasingly dependent on him, but always rejects a serious relationship with him. In one of her performances Ruth hits the pianist Johnny Alderman, who, like Martin falls in love with Ruth, which is why both men get out of jealousy repeated together.
Martin finally ensures that Ruth may occur at the famous Ziegfeld Follies in New York. When not respect him is met with there by the theater people, he is used to in Chicago, he gets angry and wants to terminate her contract Ruth's great disappointment with the Ziegfeld Follies immediately. Ruth does not love Martin, but agrees out of a sense of duty to marry him and leave the Follies. Your popularity does this not be stopped and Martin now devotes his time alone Ruth's career. When he negotiates a role in a film for her, she reacts first tune. When she learns that Johnny is working with her on the film, they eventually would be but for her first screen appearance.
When Martin discovers that Johnny is working as the musical director of the film, he gets furious. After Ruth Martin alleges that have never achieved anything in his own life, he buys a night club, he wants to bring out quite large. When Ruth refuses to give up her film career to sing in Martin Place, Martin loses his temper again and gives her a slap. Ruth asks him shortly after the divorce, what Martin deeply hurt. After Johnny Ruth visits at home and comes closer to her, he is shot down on the way to his car from Martin. Ruth Martin visited later in prison and tells him that she wants to marry Johnny, injured in hospital lying and being on the road to recovery. Although Ruth Martin thanked for all he has done for her career, he refuses to listen to her at all.
Soon after, Martin is left free again with the help of his friend Bernard V. Loomis. When he arrives in his night club, where many guests and many press people are already present, he finds to his horror that it is precisely Ruth will occur there. He can sing but because he is still convinced of her talent despite their personal differences and great pride for she feels.
Background
The film premiere was held in New York on 26 May 1955. In Germany Love Me was released in theaters on March 16, 1955. On January 1, 1973, the film was first shown on German television.
Music and dance numbers
Most of the songs of the film were originally recorded by Ruth Etting in the 1930s. Two of the songs, however, were written specifically for the film. It is Never Look Back by Chilton Price, and I'll Never Stop Loving You by Nicholas Brodszky and Sammy Cahn.
- I'm Sitting on Top of the World ( Ray Henderson / Sam Lewis / Joe Young): sung by Claude Stroud
- It All Depends On You ( Ray Henderson / Buddy DeSylva G. / Lew Brown): sung by Doris Day
- You Made Me Love You ( I Did not Want to Do It) ( James V. Monaco / Joseph McCarthy): sung by Doris Day
- Everybody Loves My Baby ( but My Baby Do not Love Nobody but Me) ( Spencer Williams / Jack Palmer ): sung by Doris Day
- Sam, the Old Accordion Man ( Walter Donaldson ): sung by Doris Day
- Shaking the Blues Away ( Irving Berlin): sung by Doris Day, danced by Day and other dancers
- Ten Cents a Dance ( Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart): sung by Doris Day
- I'll Never Stop Loving You ( Nicholas Brodszky / Sammy Cahn ): sung by Doris Day
- Never Look Back ( Chilton Price): sung by Doris Day
- Love Me or Leave Me ( Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn ): sung by Doris Day
- Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (? Has Anybody Seen My Girl) ( Ray Henderson ): danced by Doris Day and revue girls
- I Miss My Swiss (My Swiss Miss Misses Me) (Abel Baer / L. Wolfe Gilbert ): sung by Girls Revue
- (What Can I Say ) After I Say I'm Sorry? (Walter Donaldson / Abe Lyman ): sung by Doris Day
- I Cried for You ( Arthur Freed / Gus Arnheim / Abe Lyman ): sung by Doris Day
- My Blue Heaven (Walter Donaldson / George Whiting ): sung by Doris Day
Reviews
"The story does not offer anything special for a biographical film music; however, is unusually interesting character study of an impresario and gangster. "
" Although atypical, Doris Days best role! "
Awards
At the Academy Awards in 1956, the film was nominated in six categories: Best Actor ( James Cagney ), Best Sound, Best Original Score, Best Song ( I'll Never Stop Loving You), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Story. But only in the latter category, author Daniel Fuchs was able to beat the competition. In addition, he and Isobel Lennart in 1956 received an award from the Writers Guild of America for the best movie musical. A nomination for a further prize was director Charles Vidor from the Directors Guild of America.
German version
The German synchronous processing was founded in 1956 by the MGM studio synchronization Berlin.