RUTH ETTING - America's Sweetheart Of Song - CD AJA 5374

RUTH ETTING - America's Sweetheart Of Song - CD AJA 5374 Star of Broadway and pioneer of radio, female crooner and in her youth a fit, slim, blonde film-actress and real-life gangster's moll, RUTH ETTING was one of the most colourful characters of 20th-century popular music. While undoubtedly a talented, confident and highly successful stage performer, her career was chequered and her private life (as those who saw DORIS DAY and JAMES CAGNEY in the plausible Oscar-winning 1955 MGM biopic "LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" will remember) was less than rosy..