Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) - (Movie Clip) Chicago In The Twenties

Love Me or Leave Me -- (Original Trailer)

Doris Day stars in the true story of torch singer Ruth Etting and her attempts to escape the gangster (James Cagney) who made her a star in Love Me or Leave Me (1955), directed by Charles Vidor.

Love Me or Leave Me (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Do Me No Favors

Two scenes cover the first direct meeting of singer Ruth Etting (Doris Day), just fired from a taxi-dancing gig, and Chicago laundry racketeer Marty "The Gimp)" Snyder (James Cagney), with aide Georgie (Harry Bellaver) in tow, early in Charles Vidor's MGM bio-pic Love Me or Leave Me, 1955.

Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Everybody Loves My Baby

Doris Day as Chicago torch-singer Ruth Etting performs Everybody Loves My Baby and Mean To Me, (Spencer Williams/Jack Palmer, Fred E. Alhert/Roy Turk), both of which became signature songs, her jealous sponsor Marty Snyder (James Cagney) watching, in the acclaimed bio-pic Love Me or Leave Me, 1955.

Love Me or Leave Me (1955) -- (Movie Clip) You Made Me Love You

Singer Ruth Etting (Doris Day) makes her debut in a house packed by Chicago gangster Marty Snyder (James Cagney), Cameron Mitchell her pianist, his rival, songs by James Monaco and Joseph McCarthy, Rube Bloom and Ted Koehler, in the fact-based Love Me or Leave Me, 1955.