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Occupation
  
Singer; actress

Name
  
Ruth Etting

Role
  
Actress


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Born
  
November 23, 1897 (
1897-11-23
)
David City, Nebraska

Died
  
September 24, 1978, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Spouse
  
Myrl Alderman (m. 1938–1966), Martin Snyder (m. 1922–1937)

Parents
  
Winifred Etting, Alfred Etting

Movies
  
Roman Scandals, Hips - Hips - Hooray!, Gift of Gab, One Good Turn, Broadway's Like That

Similar
  
Martin Snyder, Annette Hanshaw, Ethel Waters

Biography in brief ruth etting


Ruth Etting (November 23, 1897 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. 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". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".

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As a young girl in Nebraska, Etting had wanted to be an artist; she drew and sketched everywhere she was able. At sixteen, her grandparents decided to send her to art school in Chicago. While Etting attended class, she found a job at the Marigold Gardens nightclub; after a short time there, Etting gave up art classes in favor of a career in show business. Etting, who enjoyed singing in school and church, never took voice lessons. She quickly became a featured vocalist at the club. Etting was then managed by Moe Snyder, whom she married in 1922. Snyder made arrangements for Etting's recording and film contracts as well as her personal and radio appearances. She became nationally known when she appeared in Flo Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1927".

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Etting intended to retire from performing in 1935, but this did not happen until after her divorce from Snyder in 1937. Harry Myrl Alderman, Etting's pianist, was separated from his wife when he and Etting began a relationship. Snyder did not like seeing his former wife in the company of other men and began making telephone threats to Etting in January 1938. By October, Snyder traveled to Los Angeles and detained Alderman after he left a local radio station; he forced the pianist to take him to the home of his ex-wife at gunpoint. Saying he intended to kill Etting, Alderman, and his own daughter, Edith, who worked for Etting, Snyder shot Alderman. Three days after Alderman was shot, his wife filed suit against Etting for alienation of affections.

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While Alderman and Etting claimed to have been married in Mexico in July 1938, Alderman's divorce would not be final until December of that year. The couple was married during Moe Snyder's trial for attempted murder in December 1938. Etting and Alderman relocated to a farm outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado, where they were primarily out of the spotlight for most of their lives. Her fictionalized story was told in the 1955 film Love Me Or Leave Me with Doris Day as Ruth Etting and James Cagney as Snyder.

Ruth Etting A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE DORIS DAY AS RUTH ETTING

Ruth Etting - Ten Cents a Dance - 1930


Biography

Etting was born in David City, Nebraska in 1897 to Alfred, a banker, and Winifred (née Kleinhan) Etting. Her mother died when she was five years old and she then went to live with her paternal grandparents, George and Hannah Etting. Her father remarried and moved away from David City and was no longer a part of his daughter's life. Etting's grandfather, George, owned the Etting Roller Mills; to the delight of his granddaughter, George Etting allowed traveling circuses and shows to use the lot behind the mills for performances.

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Etting was interested in drawing at an early age; she drew and sketched anywhere she was able. Her grandparents were asked to buy the textbooks she had used at the end of a school term because Etting had filled them with her drawings. She left David City at the age of sixteen to attend art school in Chicago. Etting got a job designing costumes at the Marigold Gardens nightclub, which led to employment singing and dancing in the chorus there. She gave up art school soon after going to work at Marigold Gardens. Before turning exclusively to performing, Etting worked as a designer for the owner of a costume shop in Chicago's Loop; she was successful enough to earn a partnership in the shop through her work.

While she enjoyed singing at school and in church, Etting never took voice lessons. She said that she had patterned her song styling after Marion Harris, but created her own unique style by alternating tempos and by varying some notes and phrases. Describing herself as a "high, squeaky soprano" during her days in David City, Etting developed a lower range singing voice after her arrival in Chicago which led to her success. Her big moment came when a featured vocalist suddenly became ill and was unable to perform. With no other replacement available, Etting was asked to fill in. She quickly changed into the costume and scanned the music arrangements; the performer was male, so Etting tried to adjust by singing in a lower register. She became a featured vocalist at the nightclub, and married gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder on July 17, 1922 in Crown Point, Indiana.

Etting described herself as a young, naive girl when she arrived in Chicago. Due to her inexperience in the ways of the big city, she became reliant on Snyder after their meeting. Etting and Snyder met in 1922, when she was performing at the Marigold Gardens. Snyder, who divorced his first wife to marry Etting, was well-acquainted with Chicago's nightclubs and the entertainers who worked in them; he once served as a bodyguard to Al Jolson. Snyder also used his political connections to get bookings for Etting, who was called "Miss City Hall" because of Snyder's influence in Chicago. She later said she married him "nine-tenths out of fear and one-tenth out of pity." Etting later told her friends, "If I leave him, he'll kill me." He managed her career, booking radio appearances and eventually had her signed to an exclusive recording contract with Columbia Records.

Stage, screen and radio

The couple moved to New York in 1927, where Etting made her Broadway debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927. Irving Berlin had recommended her to showman Florenz Ziegfeld. Etting nervously prepared to sing for Ziegfeld at the audition. However, he did not ask her to sing at all; only to walk up and down the room. She was hired on that basis because Ziegfeld did not hire women with big ankles. While the original plan for the show was for Etting to do a tap dance after singing "Shaking the Blues Away", she later remembered she was not a very good dancer. At the show's final rehearsal, Flo Ziegfeld told her, "Ruth, when you get through singing, just walk off the stage". Etting also appeared in Ziegfeld's last "Follies" in 1931.

She went on to appear in a number of other hit shows in rapid succession, including Ziegfeld's Simple Simon and Whoopee!. Etting was not originally signed to perform in Simple Simon; she became part of the cast at the last minute when vocalist Lee Morse was too intoxicated to perform. Ziegfeld asked Etting to replace Morse; she hurried to Boston, where the show was being tried out prior to Broadway. When Etting arrived, songwriters Rodgers and Hart discovered that the song "Ten Cents a Dance" was not written for Etting's voice range. The three spent the night rewriting the song so Etting could perform it.

Toward the end of Simple Simon's Broadway run, Etting persuaded Ziegfeld to add "Love Me Or Leave Me" to the show though the song was originally written for Whoopee!. She had recorded the song in 1928, but Etting's new version of it was impressive enough to earn her a Vitaphone contract to make film shorts.

In Hollywood, Etting made a long series of movie shorts between 1929 and 1936, and three feature movies in 1933 and 1934. She described the short films as either having a simple plot to allow for her to sing two songs or with no plot at all. The idea was to have Etting sing at least two songs in the film. While she received a marquee billing for Roman Scandals, Etting had only two lines in the film and sang just one song. Etting believed she might have had more success in full-length films if she had been given some acting lessons. Her perception was that the studios viewed her only as a vocalist. She later recalled, "I was no actress, and I knew it. But I could sell a song". In 1936, she appeared in London in Ray Henderson's Transatlantic Rhythm.

Etting was first heard on radio station WLS when she was living in Chicago. Her appearance drew so much fan mail, the station signed her to a year's contract for twice weekly performances. She had her own twice weekly 15 minute radio show on CBS in the 1930s. By 1934, she was on NBC with sports announcer Ted Husing doing the announcing and Oldsmobile sponsoring her program.

Recording history

After an unissued test made by Victor on April 4, 1924, Etting was signed to Columbia Records in February 1926. She remained at Columbia through June 1931, when she split her recording between ARC (Banner, Perfect, Romeo, Oriole, etc.) and Columbia through March 1933. She signed with Brunswick and remained there until May 1934, when she re-signed with Columbia through July 1935. After a solitary Brunswick session in March 1936, she signed with the British label Rex and recorded two sessions in August and September, 1936. Etting returned to the US and signed with Decca in December 1936 and recorded until April 1937, when she basically retired from recording.

Personal life

Etting saved some of her paycheck each week, regardless of the amount she was making at the time. Her friends said she invested in California real estate rather than the stock market. Etting, who made many of her own clothes, did her own housekeeping and lived frugally, initially announced her retirement in 1935. It is not clear why she did not go through with her announced plans, but she issued a second statement regarding retirement after filing for divorce from Snyder in November 1937.

Snyder's aggressive and controlling management style began to cause problems for Etting; by 1934 she was having difficulty getting engagements. Snyder's arguing and fighting at venues where Etting was employed caused her to be passed by for jobs in the United States. In 1936, she thought taking work in England might be the answer, but Snyder created problems while she was working there also. Soon after the couple arrived in England, Snyder became involved in a street fight which created adverse publicity for Etting. She divorced Moe Snyder on the grounds of cruelty and abandonment on November 30, 1937. Snyder did not contest the divorce and received a settlement from his former wife. Etting gave her ex-husband half of her earnings at the time, $50,000, some securities and a half interest in a home in Beverly Hills, California. She deducted the gambling debts of Snyder she had paid and the costs she had paid for a home for Snyder's mother.

Threats and the shooting

Etting fell in love with her pianist, Myrl Alderman, who was separated from his wife. In January 1938, she began receiving threatening telephone calls from Snyder, who initially claimed Etting withheld assets from him when the divorce settlement was made. Though the couple was divorced, Snyder was also upset because of reports that she was seeing another man. Snyder told Etting that he would come to California and kill her. When Snyder telephoned and found Etting unavailable, he told his daughter Edith that he "would fix her ticket, too". He called again that evening; this time Etting took the call with her cousin, Arthur Etting, listening on an extension. Etting requested police protection after the telephone call and arranged for private protection. Apparently believing the danger was over when Snyder did not appear soon after his telephone call, Etting released her bodyguards a few days later.

On October 15, 1938, Snyder detained Myrl Alderman at a local radio station and forced the pianist to take him to his former wife at gunpoint. In the house at the time were Etting and Edith Snyder. Edith, Snyder's daughter by a previous marriage, worked for Etting and remained living with her after the divorce. Snyder held Etting and Alderman at gunpoint; when told his daughter was in another part of the house, he made Etting call her into the room. Snyder said he intended to kill all three, and told them to be quiet. When Myrl Alderman attempted to speak, Snyder shot him. Snyder then told his ex-wife, "I've had my revenge, so you can call the police."

Snyder claimed Myrl Alderman pulled a gun and shot at him first and that his ex-wife would not file charges against him because she still loved him. He also claimed he was drunk when he made the telephone threats to Etting in January 1938, saying that at the time his intentions were to kill both his ex-wife and himself. Ruth Etting said that the only gun in the home belonged to her, and after the shooting of Alderman, she was able to go into her bedroom and get it. Upon seeing Etting's gun, Moe Snyder wrested it away from her; it landed on the floor. Snyder's daughter, Edith, picked it up and held it on her father, shooting at him but hitting the floor instead. During a police reenactment of the shooting three days later, Edith Snyder said that she fired at her father to save Ruth Etting, weeping as she continued, "I don't yet know whether I am sorry I missed my Dad or whether I am glad". Snyder was accused of attempting to murder his ex-wife, his daughter, and Etting's accompanist, Myrl Alderman, the kidnapping of Alderman, as well as California state gun law violations.

Alienation of affections suit

Three days after the shooting of Myrl Alderman, the pianist's second wife, Alma, sued Etting for alienation of her husband's affections. Though Etting and Alderman claimed to have been married in Tijuana, Mexico in July 1938, Alma Alderman said any marriage was invalid, because her divorce from Myrl Alderman would not be final until December 1938. Police investigators could find no record of the couple's Mexican marriage. Etting publicly invited Alma Alderman to visit her husband in the hospital, in an effort to see if the couple could reconcile.

Ruth Etting testified that she was not married to Alderman. During the course of the trial, there was also a question of the validity of Alderman's marriage to Alma. Alderman's first wife, Helen, obtained an interlocutory decree on January 7, 1935; the divorce became final one year later. On January 9, 1935, Alderman married Alma in Mexico. The second Mrs. Alderman called Moe Snyder to the stand as a witness regarding an attraction between her husband and Etting. Helen Alderman Warne also appeared in court, claiming that Alma Alderman had spirited Myrl away from her. Warne added that she had married and divorced the pianist twice. Alma Alderman's lawsuit ended in December 1939, with the court finding that she was not entitled to damages from Ruth Etting.

Trial and aftermath

The testimony in both trials brought much personal information into the public eye. Snyder, who claimed to still be in love with his ex-wife, gave Etting a diamond and platinum bracelet which she accepted after Snyder's telephone threat in January 1938. Etting testified that she agreed with her ex-husband's statement to police that Snyder was either drunk or out of his mind when he threatened her by phone. Snyder's attorney initially tried to prevent Etting from testifying against Snyder with a charge that the divorce she obtained in Illinois was invalid because she was a resident of California at that time.

During the trial, Snyder's attorney portrayed Ruth Etting as a calculating woman who had married Moe Snyder strictly for the benefit of her career, and that she divorced him in favor of being with another, younger man (Alderman). Snyder's attorney echoed his client's claim of self-defense and said his client never intended to kill Etting, his daughter, and Myrl Alderman. The attorney further claimed that if Snyder intended to kill the pianist, he had ample time to do so while he held a gun on Alderman during the drive from the radio station to the home where the shooting took place.

Etting married Alderman, who was almost a decade her junior, on December 14, 1938 in Las Vegas, during Moe Snyder's trial for attempted murder. Snyder was convicted of attempted murder, but released on appeal after one year in jail. Snyder won a new trial but returned to jail in January 1940 in lieu of bail. In August 1940, Myrl Alderman asked the district attorney to drop further prosecution attempts against Snyder for the 1938 shooting.

Etting, who had retired from performing prior to the shooting and subsequent trials, briefly had a radio show on WHN in 1947. She also accepted an engagement at New York's Copacabana in March 1947. Etting traveled alone to New York and during a newspaper interview, was asked if she had ever seen Moe Snyder again. She replied, "No, I hope I never do." and said that her husband never went to bed without a gun.

Later life and death

The couple relocated to an eight-acre farm outside of Colorado Springs in 1938. Alderman, who was raised in Colorado Springs, operated a restaurant there for a time. Etting and Alderman remained married until his death in Denver on November 28, 1966; he was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs. Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80. She was survived by a stepson, John Alderman, and four grandchildren. Alderman and Etting are now interred at the Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Legacy

Her life was the basis for the fictionalized 1955 film, Love Me or Leave Me, which starred Doris Day (as Etting), James Cagney (as Snyder) and Cameron Mitchell (as Alderman). Etting, Myrl Alderman and Moe Snyder all sold their rights to the story to MGM; Snyder was living in Chicago in 1955. Etting expressed sadness that "the real highlight of my life", her marriage to Alderman, was omitted from the film. Shortly before her death, Etting said she thought the screen portrayal of her was too tough and that Jane Powell would have been a better choice for the lead.

Etting has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in films located on the north side of the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard.

Hit records

Note: All of the above were Columbia releases. The following four were non-Columbia releases:

  • (1932) "It Was So Beautiful" (U.S. chart position 13) Melotone Records
  • (1933) "Try a Little Tenderness" (U.S. chart position 16) Melotone Records
  • (1934) "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (U.S. chart position 15) Brunswick Records
  • (1937) "In the Chapel in the Moonlight" (U.S. chart position 20) Decca Records
  • Broadway

    Ruth Etting's Broadway appearances are recorded at the Internet Broadway Database.

  • 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"
  • Nine-Fifteen Revue (1929) – in which she introduced "Get Happy"
  • Simple Simon (1930) – in which she introduced "Ten Cents a Dance"
  • Ziegfeld Follies of 1931
  • Feature films

  • Roman Scandals − 1933, her breakthrough film, which starred Eddie Cantor and Gloria Stuart
  • Mr. Broadway − 1933, as herself
  • Gift of Gab − 1934
  • Hips, Hips, Hooray! − 1934
  • Video games

    BioShock 2 - 2010

  • Ten Cents a Dance
  • BioShock Infinite - 2013

  • After You've Gone
  • Filmography

    Actress
    1936
    Sleepy Time (Short)
    1936
    Melody in May (Short) as
    Ruth Etting
    1936
    Aladdin from Manhattan (Short)
    1935
    Tuned Out (Short) as
    Ruth, the Dixie Song Bird
    1935
    Ticket or Leave It (Short)
    1935
    An Old Spanish Onion (Short)
    1934
    Bandits and Ballads (Short)
    1934
    No Contest! (Short) as
    Ruth Etting
    1934
    Southern Style (Short)
    1934
    Gift of Gab as
    Ruth Etting
    1934
    Derby Decade (Short) as
    Della Delmar
    1934
    The Song of Fame (Short) as
    Ruth Eaton
    1934
    A Torch Tango (Short)
    1934
    Hips, Hips, Hooray! as
    Ruth Etting
    1934
    Hollywood on Parade (Short)
    1933
    California Weather (Short)
    1933
    Roman Scandals as
    Olga
    1933
    Mr. Broadway as
    Ruth Etting
    1933
    Crashing the Gate (Short)
    1933
    Along Came Ruth (Short) as
    Ruth Etting a.k.a. Ruth Eldridge
    1933
    Bye-Gones (Short) as
    Aunt Ruth
    1932
    A Modern Cinderella (Short) as
    Anita Ragusa
    1932
    Artistic Temper (Short) as
    Ruth Whitney / Ruth White
    1932
    A Regular Trouper (Short) as
    Ruth Eton
    1932
    A Mail Bride (Short)
    1931
    Radio Salutes (Short)
    1931
    The Season's Greetings (Short) as
    Ruth Etting
    1931
    Words & Music (Short) as
    Ruth Eton
    1931
    Old Lace (Short)
    1931
    Freshman Love (Short) as
    Ruth Eton
    1931
    Stage Struck (Short)
    1930
    One Good Turn (Short) as
    Ruth Eton
    1930
    Roseland (Short) as
    Helen Leslie
    1930
    Broadway's Like That (Short) as
    Ruth
    1929
    Booklovers (Short)(voice)
    1929
    Blue Songs (Short)
    Soundtrack
    2017
    Moon Rock City (performer: "10 Cents A Dance")
    2016
    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (performer: "You're The Cream In My Coffee")
    2016
    Sophie and the Rising Sun (performer: "After You've Gone")
    2014
    Magic in the Moonlight (performer: "It All Depends On You")
    2013
    Dancing with the Stars (TV Series) (1 episode)
    - Week 5: Side by Side Challenge (2013) - ("It Had to Be You")
    2011
    Water for Elephants (performer: "Button Up Your Overcoat")
    2005
    Carnivàle (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Outskirts, Damascus, NE (2005) - (performer: "Love Me or Leave Me" - uncredited)
    2002
    Road to Perdition (performer: "Whose Honey Are You?")
    1997
    American Masters (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Vaudeville (1997) - (performer: "Pretty Baby" - uncredited)
    1993
    King of the Hill (performer: "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)") / (writer: "Maybe Who Knows")
    1991
    Rambling Rose (performer: "If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight")
    1987
    Shy People (performer: "Body and Soul")
    1975
    Brother Can You Spare a Dime (Documentary) (performer: "Ten Cents a Dance" (1930))
    1963
    Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - The Fabulous Musicals (1963) - (performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon" - uncredited)
    1961
    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
    - Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife? (1961) - (writer: "Cuban Love Song" - uncredited)
    1936
    Melody in May (Short) (performer: "St. Louis Blues", "It Had to Be You" - uncredited)
    1935
    Tuned Out (Short) (performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon" - uncredited)
    1935
    An Old Spanish Onion (Short) (performer: "Those Endearing Young Charms")
    1934
    No Contest! (Short) (performer: "Dancing in the Moonlight", "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Easy Come, Easy Go", "A Thousand Good Nights" - uncredited)
    1934
    Gift of Gab (performer: "Talking to Myself", "Tomorrow, Who Cares?" - uncredited)
    1934
    Derby Decade (Short) (performer: "A Bird in a Gilded Cage", "After the Ball")
    1934
    The Song of Fame (Short) (performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "I Cried For You" (1923), "I Wanna Be Loved" (1932))
    1934
    A Torch Tango (Short) (performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Don't Blame Me")
    1934
    Hips, Hips, Hooray! (performer: "Keep Romance Alive" (1933) - uncredited)
    1933
    California Weather (Short) (performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon" - uncredited)
    1933
    Roman Scandals (performer: "No More Love" (1933) - uncredited)
    1933
    Knee Deep in Music (Short) (performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "You've Got Me Crying Again", "We Couldn't Do Better Than That" - uncredited)
    1933
    Along Came Ruth (Short) (performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Moonlight on the River", "My Heart's at Ease" - uncredited)
    1933
    Bye-Gones (Short) (performer: "My Melancholy Baby" (uncredited), "Smile for Me" (uncredited), "When My Baby Smiles at Me", "Smiles" (uncredited), "I'll Follow You" (uncredited))
    1932
    A Modern Cinderella (Short) (performer: "Little Cinderella", "It Was So Beautiful (And You Were Mine)")
    1932
    Artistic Temper (Short) (performer: "That's What Heaven Means to Me", "What a Life! (Trying to Live Without You)", "Lovable" - uncredited)
    1932
    A Regular Trouper (Short) (performer: "Without That Man" (original title "Without That Gal"), "(You Knew You'd Hurt Somebody) Why Did It Have to Be Me?" - uncredited)
    1931
    Radio Salutes (Short) (performer: "You're Always Sure of My Love")
    1931
    Words & Music (Short) (performer: "I'm Falling in Love", "Now That You're Gone" - uncredited) / (writer: "I'm Falling in Love" - uncredited)
    1931
    Freshman Love (Short) (performer: "Love Is Like That", "She's Funny That Way")
    1930
    One Good Turn (Short) (performer: "If I Could Be with You" (uncredited), "Don't Tell Her What's Happened to Me")
    1930
    Roseland (Short) (performer: "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy", "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" - uncredited)
    1930
    Broadway's Like That (Short) (performer: "The Right Kind of Man", "From the Bottom of My Heart" - uncredited)
    1929
    Ruth Etting, the Sweetheart of Columbia Records, Glorifying the Popular Song (Short) (performer: "That Wonderful Boy Friend of Mine", "Pretty Little You", "All I Want Is Y-O-U" - uncredited)
    1929
    Favorite Melodies (Short) (performer: "My Mother's Eyes", "That's Him Now")
    1928
    Ruth Etting (Short) (performer: "Roses of Yesterday", "Because My Baby Don't Mean 'Maybe' Now")
    Self
    1977
    All You Need Is Love (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Introduction (1977) - Self
    1934
    Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 (Short) as
    Self
    1933
    Knee Deep in Music (Short) as
    Self
    1933
    Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (Short) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1933
    I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket (Short) as
    Self
    1929
    Ruth Etting, the Sweetheart of Columbia Records, Glorifying the Popular Song (Short) as
    Self
    1929
    Favorite Melodies (Short) as
    Self
    1928
    Ruth Etting (Short) as
    Self
    Archive Footage
    1997
    American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Vaudeville (1997) - Self
    1963
    Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary) as
    Self / Ruth (clip from Broadway's Like That (1930))
    - The Fabulous Musicals (1963) - Self
    - The Man Called Bogart (1963) - Ruth (clip from Broadway's Like That (1930))
    1963
    Hollywood Without Make-Up (Documentary) as
    Self

    References

    Ruth Etting Wikipedia


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