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Love Me or Leave Me (film)
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Love Me or Leave Me
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Directed by
Charles Vidor
Produced by
Joe Pasternak
Written by
Daniel Fuchs
Isobel Lennart
Starring
Doris Day
James Cagney
Cameron Mitchell
Music by
Chilton Price
Cinematography
Arthur E. Arling
Editing by
Ralph E. Winters
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
May 26, 1955 (NYC)
 June 10 (US wide)
Running time
122 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2,762,000[1]
Box office
$5,632,000[1][2]
Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical romantic musical drama film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star. It stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron Mitchell as pianist/ arranger Myrl Alderman, her second husband. It was written by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart. It was directed by Charles Vidor.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production
2 Reception
3 Songs
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Production[edit]
Cagney suggested to producer Joe Pasternak that Doris Day be cast in the Etting role. The role had been sought by Ava Gardner (singing probably dubbed by Jo Ann Greer) and Jane Russell, but Cagney persuaded MGM to cast Doris Day, who was excited to play opposite Cagney.[citation needed]
Reception[edit]
Love Me or Leave Me won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (James Cagney), Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Music, Song (for Nicholas Brodzsky and Sammy Cahn for "I'll Never Stop Loving You"), Best Sound, Recording (Wesley C. Miller) and Best Writing, Screenplay.[3]
Variety called the film "a rich canvas of the Roaring '20s, with gutsy and excellent performances."[4]
Songs[edit]
Most of the songs in the movie were 1930s hits that Etting had recorded originally. Two new songs, however, were written specifically for the film: "Never Look Back", by Chilton Price, and, "I'll Never Stop Loving You", by Nicholas Brodzsky and Sammy Cahn.[4]
The songs as they appear in the film (all sung by Doris Day except as shown):
Ten Cents a Dance
I'm Sitting on Top of the World (sung by Claude Stroud)
It All Depends On You
You Made Me Love You
Stay On the Right Side Sister
Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Loves Nobody But Me)
Mean To Me
Sam, the Old Accordion Man
Shaking the Blues Away (sung by Doris Day, danced by Doris Day and Chorus)
I'll Never Stop Loving You
Never Look Back
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
At Sundown
My Blue Heaven
Love Me or Leave Me
Reception[edit]
According to MGM records the film earned $4,035,000 in the US and Canada and $1,597,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $595,000.[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
2.Jump up ^ For domestic take see also 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956
3.Jump up ^ "The 28th Academy Awards (1956) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Variety's review Posted: Sat., Jan. 1, 1955
External links[edit]
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Hope Floats
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Hope Floats
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Directed by
Forest Whitaker
Produced by
Lynda Obst
Sandra Bullock
Elizabeth Joan Hooper
Mary McLaglen
Written by
Steven Rogers
Starring
Sandra Bullock
Harry Connick, Jr.
Gena Rowlands
Mae Whitman
Michael Pare
Cameron Finley
Music by
Dave Grusin
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release dates
May 29, 1998
Running time
114 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$30 million
Box office
$81,471,882[1]
Hope Floats is a 1998 American romantic drama film directed by Forest Whitaker, and starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr., and Gena Rowlands.
Birdee (Bullock) is an unassuming housewife whose life is disrupted when her husband (Michael Pare) reveals his infidelity to her on a Ricki Lake-style talk show. She goes home to her mother (Rowlands) and the small town in which she grew up, where everyone knows of her televised marital collapse. Things only get worse as a family tragedy brings her ex-husband back for an official divorce. Meanwhile an old friend, Justin (Connick, Jr.), has entered her life, sparking a romance. While Justin's intentions are clear and good, Birdee struggles with the decision to let him fully into her life.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Filming
4  Soundtrack
5 Score
6 Reception 6.1 Critical response
6.2 Awards and nominations
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock) is a Chicago housewife who is invited onto a talk show under the pretense of getting a free makeover but instead is ambushed with the revelation that her husband Bill has been having an affair with her best friend Connie. Humiliated on national television, Birdee and her daughter Bernice (Mae Whitman) move back to Birdee's hometown of Smithville, Texas, with Birdee's eccentric mother Ramona (Gena Rowlands) to make a fresh start. As Birdee and Bernice leave Chicago, Birdee gives Bernice a letter from her father, telling Bernice how much he misses her.
Birdee struggles to make a new life as a working single mother and deals with the growing attraction between herself and a former high school classmate, Justin Matisse (Harry Connick, Jr.). She also tries to rebuild her relationship with her estranged mother, her ailing father (who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease), and her daughter, who wants desperately to be with her father and blames her mother for the breakup, even trying to sabotage the romantic overtures Justin makes towards Birdee.
Adding to Birdee's heartache is her former status as the school queen bee and a beauty pageant winner, which alienated many of her former classmates. They also haven't forgotten Birdee's high school snobbery and rub her nose in her televised embarrassment.
Ramona tries to mend the gap between her daughter and granddaughter by telling a childhood story of her own. She asks Bernice what she's wishing for her birthday. Bernice secretly wishes for her father to return.
That night, Ramona suffers a massive heart attack and dies. At the funeral, Bill arrives at the church. Bernice believes her father's presence is a sign her wish has come true...that her father wants them both to come home. However, it soon becomes clear to her that her parents' split is permanent when Bill asks Birdee for a divorce. Wanting to be with her father, Bernice is devastated when he tells her that though he loves her, he has no room for her in his new life with Connie. Crushed at the thought that her father put another woman before her, Bernice breaks down sobbing, screaming for him to come back. Bill turns his back on her and drives off, leaving her to be comforted by her mother.
Bernice ultimately accepts Bill's departure from her life as a full-time parent and begins to accept Justin as her mother's new love interest and a father figure. Mother and daughter share a tender yet humorous moment when Bernice asks Birdee if she's going to marry Justin. When Birdee asks her if she doesn't like Justin, Bernice says her only real concern is being known as "Bernice Matisse".
Cast[edit]
Sandra Bullock as Birdee Pruitt
Harry Connick, Jr. as Justin Matisse
Gena Rowlands as Ramona Calvert
Mae Whitman as Bernice Pruitt
Michael Paré as Bill Pruitt
Cameron Finley as Travis
Kathy Najimy as Toni Post
Bill Cobbs as Nurse
Connie Ray as Bobbi-Claire Patterson


Filming[edit]
Hope Floats was filmed in Smithville, Texas.[2] The home in the movie is the McCollum-Chapman-Trousdale House, built in the Neoclassical style in 1908.[3] The elementary school in the movie is a 1924 high school building.[4] The church used was Saints Peter and Paul Church in Kovar, TX, about 6 miles from Smithville. The church was built in 1921.[citation needed]
The film was choreographed by Patsy Swayze.[5]
 Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Hope Floats (soundtrack)
The film's soundtrack was released in 1998 under the production of Don Was. The album included the works of several country music and adult contemporary artists, including Garth Brooks, The Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams, Bob Seger, and Sheryl Crow. One of the singles, Brooks' "To Make You Feel My Love", was a Number One single on the Billboard country singles charts in August 1998 and also a Grammy Award nominee in 1999 for Male Country Vocal performance.
Score[edit]

Hope Floats:
 Original Score Soundtrack

Soundtrack album by Various

Released
1998
Genre
Score
Label
RCA Victor
Producer
Don Was
Hope Floats: Original Score Soundtrack
1."To Make You Feel My Love" – Garth Brooks (3:53)
2."In Need" – Sheryl Crow (5:29)
3."Honest I Do" – The Rolling Stones (3:55)
4."Chances Are" – Bob Seger and Martina McBride (4:17)
5."All I Get" – The Mavericks (4:08)
6."Paper Wings" – Gillian Welch (3:57)
7."Stop! In the Name of Love" – Jonell Mosser (4:31)
8."Wither, I'm a Flower" – Whiskeytown (4:53)
9."What Makes You Stay" – Deana Carter (4:35)
10."To Get Me to You" – Lila McCann (3:50)
11."Smile" – Lyle Lovett (3:38)
12."When You Love Someone" – Bryan Adams (3:39)
13."To Make You Feel My Love" – Trisha Yearwood (2:57)
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
The film has received mostly negative reviews from critics and currently holds a 24% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[citation needed]
[icon] This section requires expansion. (January 2011)
Awards and nominations [edit]
1999 ALMA Awards Nomination: Outstanding Performance of a Song for a Feature Film - The Mavericks for the song "All I Get".
1999 Acapulco Black Film Festival Nomination: Best Director - Forest Whitaker
1999 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Nomination: Favorite Actor - Drama/Romance - Harry Connick Jr.
Nomination: Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama/Romance - Gena Rowlands
1999 Lone Star Film & Television Awards Winner: Best Actress - Sandra Bullock
Winner: Best Supporting Actress - Gena Rowlands
1999 Young Artist Awards Winner: Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress Age Ten or Under - Mae Whitman
Nomination: Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Under - Cameron Finley
1998 YoungStar Awards Nomination: Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Drama Film - Cameron Finley
Nomination: Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film - Mae Whitman

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Hope Floats (1998)". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. 1998-07-24. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
2.Jump up ^ "City of Smithville - Heart of the Megalopolis". Ci.smithville.tx.us. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
3.Jump up ^ "Hollywood Stars and Smithville, Texas". Blue Eyes and Bluebonnets. 18 January 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
4.Jump up ^ http://www.katyhouse.com/smithville-attractions.htm[dead link]
5.Jump up ^ Kelly, Devin (2013-09-18). "Patsy Swayze, mother of Patrick Swayze, dies at 86". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
External links[edit]
Hope Floats
Hope Floats at the Internet Movie Database
Hope Floats at allmovie
Hope Floats at Rotten Tomatoes


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