Amoeba Music

Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything the looks, the wiles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin 'The Gimp' Snyder, who, even as he propelled her career, afflicted her.

Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performance of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award winner (Writing - Motion Picture Story) is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped at great peril. As Snyder, Cagney earned one of the film's six Oscar nominations. Day's Etting was a career-best dramatic performance, bringing acclaim from critics and protest letters from fans unprepared for the departure from her traditionally sunny roles.

Special Features:

• Vintage short subjects
  • Salute to the Theaters (aka 1955 Motion Picture Celebration-MGM promotional short, includes behind-the-scenes filming of Love Me or Leave Me)
  • Roseland (1930 Vitaphone short starring Ruth Etting)
  • A Modern Cinderella (1932 Vitaphone short starring Ruth Etting)
• Original Theatrical Trailer