This particular short subject that starred Ruth Etting plays like a mini-musical. It has a plot of sorts with Ruth as a singing cigarette girl trying to get a break and of course eventually doing so.
Etting sings three songs in her intimate style from the Twenties. She and Helen Morgan were the main female song stylists of the Roaring Twenties, between them they counted for a ton of hit songs, familiar even to this generation.
Ruth sings Shine On Harvest Moon, I Cried For You and I Wanna Be Loved. The last I happen to have her recording of. She took it over from Nora Bayes who introduced it, when Bayes died in 1928 it became part of the Etting repertoire.
I couldn't help but notice how non-intimate Ruth got with any of her cast members. No romance of any kind, not a hint of a producer's casting couch in this one. No doubt due to the influence of her very jealous husband Marty Snyder. That story as we all know is told in the film Love Me Or Leave Me with James Cagney and Doris Day playing the married Snyders.
The Song Of Fame is a good introduction to Ruth Etting.
Etting sings three songs in her intimate style from the Twenties. She and Helen Morgan were the main female song stylists of the Roaring Twenties, between them they counted for a ton of hit songs, familiar even to this generation.
Ruth sings Shine On Harvest Moon, I Cried For You and I Wanna Be Loved. The last I happen to have her recording of. She took it over from Nora Bayes who introduced it, when Bayes died in 1928 it became part of the Etting repertoire.
I couldn't help but notice how non-intimate Ruth got with any of her cast members. No romance of any kind, not a hint of a producer's casting couch in this one. No doubt due to the influence of her very jealous husband Marty Snyder. That story as we all know is told in the film Love Me Or Leave Me with James Cagney and Doris Day playing the married Snyders.
The Song Of Fame is a good introduction to Ruth Etting.