Martin snyder married to ruth etting

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    Doris Day, who died this month at 97, was the queen of wholesome, romantic comedies — America’s sweetheart of the Eisenhower age. But one of her more memorable roles was anything but sweet or lovely.

    In the 1955 biopic “Love Me or Leave Me,” Day played a singer for whom romance was a tragedy, complete with a jealous husband, a murder attempt, and death.

    The movie was based on the life of Ruth Etting, America’s sweetheart of song in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.

    Like Day, the blond, blue-eyed “Queen of the Torchers” gave voice to her era, with such hits as “Ten Cents a Dance,” “Shine On Harvest Moon,” and “Shakin’ the Blues Away.” Her rise was meteoric, bringing her center stage of the Ziegfeld Follies and, through radio, recordings, and movies, into the homes and hearts of millions of Americans.

    No less an authority than Mae West admired her allure. “She had a sex quality t

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    Ruth Etting

    When Ruth Etting was born on 23 November 1898, in David City, Butler, Nebraska, United States, her father, Herman Alfred Etting, was 27 and her mother, Winifred Kleinhan, was 23. She married Martin Snyder in 1922. She immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1939 and lived in Charleston, South Carolina, United States in 1978. She died on 24 September 1978, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States.

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