Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson and Kahn song) Inventions in the middle of the song. Ella Fitzgerald included her rendition on her 1962 Verve release "Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson" which won a Grammy Award in 1963. Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson and Kahn song) "Love Me or Leave Me" is a popular song written in 1928 by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was introduced in the Broadway play "Whoopee!", which opened in December 1928. Ruth Etting's performance of the song was so popular that she was also given the song to sing in the play "Simple Simon", which opened in February 1930.
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),