Ruth Etting
Actor
Biography
From Wikipedia
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. She is known as "America's sweetheart of song". Her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
In Hollywood, Etting made a long series of movie shorts between 1929 and 1936, and three feature movies in 1933 and 1934. In 1936, she appeared in London in Ray Henderson's Transatlantic Rhythm.
Her life was the basis for the fictionalized 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me, which starred Doris Day (as Etting), James Cagney (as Snyder) and Cameron Mitchell (as Alderman). Etting, Myrl Alderman and Moe Snyder all sold their rights to the story to MGM. Shortly before her death, Etting said she thought the screen portrayal of her was too tough and that Jane Powell would have been a better choice for the lead.
For her work in films, Etting has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located on the north side of the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard.
Filmography
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
as Ruth Etting 1934
Broadway's Like That
as Ruth 1930
Roseland
as Helen Leslie 1930
A Modern Cinderella
as Anita Ragusa 1932
Ruth Etting in Favorite Melodies
as Herself 1929
Gift of Gab
as Ruth 1934
The Song of Fame
1934
An Old Spanish Onion
1935
I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket
as Self 1933
Artistic Temper
as Ruth 1932
Mr. Broadway
as Ruth Etting 1933
One Good Turn
as Ruth Eton 1930
Bye-Gones
1933
No Contest!
as Ruth 1934
Melody in May
as Ruth Etting 1936
Old Lace
1931