Love Me or Leave Me (film) by Doris Day except as shown): Love Me or Leave Me (film) Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical romantic musical drama film that 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 pianist/arranger Myrl Alderman, her second husband. It was written by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart and directed by Charles Vidor. After kicking a customer for getting fresh, 1920s Chicago nightclub singer and dime-a-dance girl
Doris Day filmography Doris Day filmography The filmography of American actress Doris Day consists of 39 feature films released between 1948 and 1968. She began her career as a band singer and eventually won the female lead in a Warner Bros. film "Romance on the High Seas" (1948) replacing Betty Hutton. She went on to star in several minor musicals for Warners, including "Tea for Two" (1950), "Lullaby of Broadway" (1951), "April in Paris" (1952), "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1953), and a hit musical, "Calamity Jane", which gave her an Academy Award-winning song, "Secret Love" (1953). She ended her contract