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
Doris Wishman to cut down shooting costs. Anti-Obscenity law at the time greatly limited the circulation of Doris Wishman and other sexploitation directors work. Her work in the 70-80’s where a mixture of several different genres, all in the soft core genre of exploitation, except in the mid-1970s, Wishman directed two hardcore pornographic features entitled "Satan Was a Lady" (1975) and "Come With Me, My Love" (1976), both of which featured Annie Sprinkle. With the collapse of censorship law, demand for nudity in film rose, impacting Doris film direction. Hardcore was now available and explicate sex could be filmed, which Doris and