Love Me or Leave Me (film) 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 Ruth Etting is in jeopardy of
Harry Bellaver notable film noirs. He played the role of ex-convict "Creeps" in 1939's "Another Thin Man" with "William Powell" and "Myrna Loy". He appeared in "The House on 92nd Street" (1945) as a taxi driver spying for the Nazis, and again played a cab driver, this time victimized by a gangster, in "Side Street" (1950). He appeared in "Love Me or Leave Me" with James Cagney and Doris Day in 1955 and "The Old Man and the Sea" with Spencer Tracy in 1958. His other film roles included appearances in "One Potato, Two Potato" (1964), "A Fine Madness" (1966), "Madigan" (1968),