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Infobox actor|name= Ruth Etting|image= Ruthetting.jpg|image_size= 300px|caption= Ruth Etting on the cover of Radio Mirror magazine, June 1932.|birth_date= Birthdate|1897|11|23|mf=y|birth_place= David City, Nebraska |death_date= dda|1978|9|24|1897|11|23|mf=y|death_place= Colorado Springs, Colorado , U.S.|occupation= Singer; actressInline|date=January 2011 Ruth Etting (November 23, 1897 — September 24, 1978) was an United States|American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film.she is known as "America's Sweetheart of Song" Her signature tunes were " Shine On Harvest Moon ", " Ten Cents a Dance ", and " Love Me or Leave Me (song)|Love Me or Leave Me ". Her other popular recordings included " Button Up Your Overcoat ", " Mean to Me (Fred E. Ahlert song)|Mean to Me ", " Exactly Like You (song)|Exactly Like You ", and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Biography
Born in David City, Nebraska in 1897 to Alfred and Winifred (née Kleinhan) Etting. When Ruth was five years old, her mother died and she went to live with her paternal grandparents, George and Hannah Etting. Alfred Etting remarried and moved away from David City and largely out of his daughter's life. http://libr.unl.edu:2000/public/ettingdis/page2.html Etting biodata from her papers at the University of Nebraska
Ruth Etting left David City at the age of seventeen to attend art school in Chicago, Illinois|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 Snyder|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 (Manhattan)|Broadway debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 . She went on to appear in a number of other hit shows in rapid succession, including Simple Simon (musical)|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 . Citation needed|date=January 2011
Personal life
Etting divorced Moe Snyder on November 30, 1937, aged 40. 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, who was almost a decade her junior, 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.
Death
Ruth Etting died in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1978, aged 80. She had no children.
Legacy
Her life was the basis for the fictionalized 1955 film, Love Me or Leave Me (film)|Love Me or Leave Me , which starred Doris Day (as Etting) and James Cagney (as Snyder).
Broadway
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 (song)|Love Me or Leave Me "
Nine-Fifteen Revue (1929) — in which she introduced " Get Happy (song)|Get Happy "
Simple Simon (musical)|Simple Simon (1930) — in which she introduced "Ten Cents a Dance"
Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 Citation needed|date=January 2011
Roman Scandals - 1933, her breakthrough film, which starred Eddie Cantor and Gloria Stuart
Mr. Broadway (1933 film)|Mr. Broadway - 1933, as herself
Gift of Gab (film)|Gift of Gab - 1934
Hips, Hips, Hooray! - 1934
Featured Songs, Bioshock 2
Ten Cents a Dance -2010
References
Reflist
External links
Portal|Biography
http://www.ruthetting.com Official Ruth Etting website
imdb name|id=0262190|name=Ruth Etting
ibdb|39757
Find a Grave|7128556
Persondata|NAME = Etting, Ruth |ALTERNATIVE NAMES = |SHORT DESCRIPTION = American singer, vaudevillian, musical theatre performer and film actress |DATE OF BIRTH = November 23, 1897 |PLACE OF BIRTH = David City, Nebraska , U.S. |DATE OF DEATH = September 24, 1978 (aged 80) |PLACE OF DEATH = Colorado Springs, Colorado , U.S.
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