VHS : Love Me Or Leave Me
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starring: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tullydirected by: Charles Vidor
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301971232
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630197123X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: February 24, 1995
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 12040
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 1955
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Do like to voodoos do!
One of my favorite Dorris Day films. This version looks and sounds great. Need say more? I didn't think so.
Rating: - The things some do for love!
A curious love affair establishes itself when a racketeer from Chicago falls in love with a promising emerging singer. He makes the best he can to lead her to the top in U.S.A. She refuses to become her mistress despite of the fact the untiring efforts he makes to lead her to the highest stages in the country and even make of her an actress in Hollywood due his contacts. On the contrary she is in love with her musical's partner; a humble but talented pianist(Cameron Mitchell).
This amorous ... Read More
Rating: - What a difference a year makes....
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, ... Read More
Rating:  - I'll Leave It
Love Me or Leave Me is the story of Ruth Etting (Doris Day), a real-life jazz singer from the 1920s who made hits with songs like "Ten Cents a Dance" and "You're the Cream in My Coffee." Her manager Marty Snyder (James Cagney) is an overbearing older man whose love for Etting causes him to bend over backward to help her career. She appreciates him but does not love him, and this unequal feeling between them causes plenty of problems.
Although she is obviously a great talent, the casting of Day ... Read More
Rating: - Doris's Favorite
Of all the movies Doris made, this was her favorite; and it is apparent why.
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