Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

Doris Day stars in this biographical drama as 1920s singer Ruth Etting, who achieved enormous success thanks to the influence of her manager/husband, mobster Marty “The Gimp” Snyder (James Cagney). Though it’s a heavily fictionalised version of events, the film manages to…

Josh Gillam

Doris’ performance was INSANE. Genuinely incredible. I cannot wait to see her in more dramatic roles in the future! CinemaScope musicals are my guilty pleasure, every time I watch one I feel like I’m surrounded by the film which is VERY fitting considering the plot of this.…

Adrian

Just let down by being a tad too long, but Cagney and Day's performances are great. If you're into costumes, doesn't get much better than this.

az93

*SOME SPOILERS* This is essentially The Roaring Twenties from the woman’s point of view – and filmed, fittingly, in the style of what they once called a “woman’s picture”. In Raoul Walsh’s 1939 gangster movie, the focus was on the good-guy hoodlum whose heart breaks…

Rick Burin

Film # 4 of Musical March 2026 It would have been criminal to do a month where music and Hollywood musicals in particular were taking centre stage without knocking off at least one film featuring the wonderful Doris Day? Charles Vidor's 1955 MGM production, Love Me or…

Andy Summers 🤠

It's 50s Hollywood so the realities get unnecessarily fictionalized. I've never understood why films want to make changes that make the true events less interesting. I mean there is wayyy more going on with the shooting of Alderman in real life. But it's still very good.…

Jem33

ummm, doris day killed it as a dramatic actress why the hell did she do almost exclusively rom-coms??? i was expecting this movie to be pretty good, but not this good.  sure, it felt a little too long and felt like it took place in the 50s and not the 20s, but oh my god,…

janae 🎞️𖦹₊ ⊹

I wanted to like this a lot more, but the story felt repetitive and overly long. For what it was, it was decent, Cagney and Day were both excellent.

JJ

doris day THE triple threat princess of cinema! i can’t praise doris’ performance enough in this, it’s one of the greatest performances ever given by an actress and it’s criminally underrated and overlooked! she’s overcome many personal and professional challenges to be…

nada