Love Me or Leave Me
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Movie Reviews of Love Me or Leave Me
Movie Review: Loved It
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie. Terrific story of Ruth Etting beautifully portrayed by Doris Day. Never has Miss Day sounded or looked better than in this fast paced biography of one a America's most famous singers. James Cagney, as you would expect, comes close to stealing the movie but Doris Day holds her own with a performance worthy of an Academy Award. The script is excellent and the singing of course is beautiful. Many music critics have said that only Doris Day's voice could be compared to Ella Fitzgerald's and this film proves it. Miss Day can take any song and make it sound like a classic. Her incredible interpretation of a song, combined with an amazing voice always under control is quite simply wonderful. On top of that you get great acting as well as danceing. The story is both sad and uplifting but touched with just enough humor. See this film, I think you will love it too.Movie Review: Why are some films so memorable even if we don't identify with their main characters?
Summary: 5 Stars
Why do certain movies stay in the mind even though they do not have characters the viewer particularly identifies with?
One reason is that these films have characters unforgettably strong. This movie has Doris Day as Ruth Etting, and James Cagney as Marty(The Gimp) Snyder. Doris Day gives her greatest screen performance, her singing is truly remarkable including a heart- wrenching rendering of the title song of the movie. Cagney is so convincing so paradoxically domineering difficult and pathetic in his hopeless love of the girl he is helping making a star. The disorder and unhappiness of troubled lives give a feeling of tough authenticity. It has the special vibrancy Cagney always brought to his roles. Doris Day will never have a performance close to this one in her life.
Simply a very good and enjoyable movie.
Movie Review: Love Me or Leave Me
Summary: 5 Stars
A far-cry from the wholesome, gee-whiz brand of MGM musicals from the '50s, this daring biopic of the real-life Ruth Etting--"America's sweetheart of song"--is remarkably candid about the opportunistic people who inhabit the showbiz world--and none of them comes out smelling rosy. Day is smashing as Etting, a gorgeous, shimmering talent who ruthlessly sacrifices love and independence for the promise of fame. Her turbulent relationship with Marty, played to the hilt by a limping, brilliantly repulsive Cagney, goes from pretty bad to catastrophic, all hinging on her reunion with Johnny, played by the agreeably forthright Mitchell. The story is gripping, but so are Day's sexy, impeccable renditions of torch songs like "Shaking the Blues Away."Movie Review: What a difference a year makes....
Summary: 5 Stars
I was doing a comparison of Doris Day films for work and what difference from the sweet and frothy "Lucky Me" and "Young at Heart" to the dramatically dense "Love Me or Leave Me". Learning that the studio wanted Eva Gardner but that Cagney fought for Doris Day was also interesting and a comment on how "they" saw the role. Doris Day was excellent, James Cagney added life and reality to a stock "bad guy/goon" character and the music is superb. The dvd extras are also first rate with period shorts and one, "Roseland", stars Ruth Etting herself.Movie Review: Love Me or Leave Me
Summary: 5 Stars
This is Doris Day's finest moment on screen. A dramatic role that caused a mild sensation with fans. Still, she is perfect, sings wonderful songs and captures the torment of Ruth who rises to fame with her stranglehold "lover" and manager "The Gimp" aka James Cagney. Together they torch the screen with drama, splendor and deliver Technicolor sets the way they were meant to be seen- VIBRANT ! The title song will grab you every time Doris sings "Love me or Leave Me! The other torch song "Ten Cents a Dance" echos Ruth's abuse of the "Gimp."