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Ruth Etting (November 23 1896 – September 24 1978) was an American singing star of the 1930s, who had over sixty hit recordings. Her signature tunes were "Shine On Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me", and her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", and "Shaking the Blues Away".

Born in David City, Nebraska, she left home at age seventeen to attend art school in Chicago. Her job designing costumes at the Marigold Gardens nightclub led to employment singing and dancing in the chorus there. She became a featured vocalist at the nightclub and married gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder on July 12, 1922. He managed her career, booking radio appearances, and eventually had her signed to an exclusive recording contract with Columbia Records.

She made her Broadway debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927, and appeared in a number of other hit shows in rapid succession, including Simple Simon and Whoopee!

In Hollywood she made a long series of movie shorts and three feature movies.

She appeared in London in Ray Henderson's Transatlantic Rhythm in 1936.

In 1937 she fell in love with her pianist, Myrl Alderman, who was consequently shot by her husband Moe Snyder—but survived. Snyder was jailed for the assault, and Etting divorced him November 30, 1937 and married Alderman in December 1938. The scandal effectively ended her career, though she briefly had a radio show in 1947. Alderman died on November 16, 1966.

Etting died in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1978.

Her life was the basis for the 1955 movie Love Me or Leave Me which starred Doris Day and Jimmy Cagney.

Broadway

the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 – in which she introduced Irving Berlin's "Shaking The Blues Away"
Whoopee! – 1928 - in which she introduced "Love Me or Leave Me"
the Nine-Fifteen Revue - 1929, in which she introduced "Get Happy"
Simple Simon – 1930, in which she introduced "Ten Cents a Dance"
the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931

Movie shorts

The Book of Lovers -1929
Roseland -1930
One Good Turn -1930
Broadway's Like That -1930
Words & Music -1931
Stage Struck -1931
Radio Salutes -1931
Old Lace -1931
A Modern Cinderella -1932
A Regular Trouper -1932
A Mail Bride -1932
Artistic Temper -1932
Bye-Gones -1933
Along Came Ruth -1933
Crashing the Gate -1933
California Weather -1933
Knee Deep in Music -1933
A Torch Tango -1934
The Song of Fame -1934
Derby Decade -1934
Southern Style -1934
Bandits and Ballads -1934
An Old Spanish Onion -1935
Ticket or Leave It -1935
Tuned Out -1935
Alladin from Manhattan -1936
Melody in May -1936
Sleepy Time -1936

Feature movies

Roman Scandals
-1933 – her breakthrough film, which starred Eddie Cantor
and Gloria Stuart
Gift of Gab -1934
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
-1934

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Actors - Ruth Etting

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