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Ruth Etting in the News
Love Me Or Leave Me by Ruth Etting, inducted into the GRAMMY
Hall Of Fame
On February 8, 2005, the Recording Academy inducted the newest additions
to its GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, adding 20 recordings to a timeless list that
now includes 659 titles. Ruth Etting was voted in with
"Love
Me Or Leave Me", which she introduced in the 1928 Ziegfeld stage
production, Whoopee. The
ballad became Etting's signature song and served as the title song of a
1955 movie about Etting's life, which starred Doris Day. Ruth was also
inducted in 1999 for "Ten
Cents A Dance", Columbia, 1930.
Carnivāle on HBO
Ruth Etting's "Love
Me Or Leave Me" appears in two episodes of this HBO series in
season one,
and The show follows a
traveling carnival as it wends its way across the Dust Bowl, at a time of
worldwide unrest, with evil on the rise around the globe and the Great
Depression wreaking economic and social havoc here at home.
Torch
on IMDB, September 22, 2004
The Internet Movie Database is now listing Torch, the new movie
about Ruth Etting's life. According to IMDB, the film is set to be
released in 2006 and star Al Pacino. No female star is currently listed.
movieweb.com, September 14th, 2004
Torch: According to Variety, Paul Schrader is set to write the script for
Torch, a drama about the obsessive relationship between singer Ruth Etting and Chicago bootlegger Moe Snyder.
The pic will be a reteaming of the Sea of Love troika of Al Pacino, director Harold Becker and producer Martin Bregman.
That trio has long been fascinated by the Snyder/Etting story and tried to get a script together several times. But the picture finally came into focus when "Auto Focus" helmer Schrader met with Becker and Pacino
and walked away with the assignment.
Jennifer Lopez, March 2003
"There's an old movie called Love Me or Leave Me that I've been thinking of
remaking. Ruth Etting and Marty the Gimp from Chicago. It's a great
story."
discuss.washingtonpost.com, 2002
I think Kate Winslet's looking pretty stunning for a non-thin actor! And
talking the great Kate, at lunch today, one of the guests is producing her
current movie shooting in Toronto, "The Ruth Etting Story." Buffs will
know this is a remake of the terrific "Love Me Or Leave Me" with Doris Day
and Cagney. I'm assuming Kate's taking the Day role as Al Pacino is
co-starring. Singing and dancing ensues I was told.
Road to Perdition, 2002
Ruth Etting's "Whose Honey Are You?", recorded in 1935 appears in
this 2002 movie and on the
soundtrack
CD.
The Trades, April 2001
Jennifer Lopez teams with tough guy Robert De Niro in this remake of the
1955 romantic-drama Love Me or Leave Me. The original film starred James
Cagney and Doris Day and was based on the life of singer Ruth Etting.
Warner Bros. will distribute the film with help from Tribeca Productions,
Nuyorican Productions, and Handprint Entertainment. Lopez and De Niro will
produce along with Jane Rosenthal and Benny Medina.
Angelina Jolie, 2001
"There's something I love, a period piece. There's a
problem of who they want to cast. [It's a remake of Love Me or Leave Me,
the Doris Day-Jimmy Cagney hit '50s musical drama about 1920s singer Ruth
Etting and her mentor/lover, a crippled gangster named Moe Snyder]. A lot
of discussions."
Cafe Pacino, 2000
Variety reports that an Italian distribution company has picked
up and slated Phillip Noyce's new film, "The Moe Snyder Project" with Al
Pacino and Angelina Jolie for the 2000-2001 season. The "Moe Snyder"
project is evidently about the '20s and '30s singer named Ruth Etting. She
married a Chicago gangster named Moe Snyder (also called The Gimp) in
1922. He managed her career for 20 years. She went to Hollywood and made a
few films, then fell in love with her accompanist. Moe shot him (he
survived and married Ruth after her divorce) and went to jail.
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