Ruth Etting

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Ruth Etting on the cover of Radio Mirror magazine, June 1932. Source: www.ruthetting.com


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", "Exactly like you", and "Shaking the Blues Away".

Biography

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 between 1929 and 1936, and three feature movies in 1933 and 1934. In 1936, She appeared in London in Ray Henderson's Transatlantic Rhythm.

Etting divorced Moe Snyder on November 30, 1937. She fell in love with her pianist, Myrl Alderman, but in 1938 he was shot and injured by her ex-husband. Snyder was convicted of attempted murder, but released on appeal after one year in jail. Etting married Alderman in December 1938.

The scandal of the sensational trial in Los Angeles 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, aged 81.

Her life was the basis for the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me, which starred Doris Day and James 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

Motion picture appearances

Short films

  • 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

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