page_title: Ruth Etting
section_title: Short films
hierarchical_section_title: Ruth Etting / Filmography / Short films
caption_attribution_description: Lobby card for the 1934 film short No Contest starring Ruth Etting.
context_page_description: Ruth Etting 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".
  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.
context_section_description: The Book of Lovers (1929)
  Broadway's Like That (1930) - Ruth
  Roseland (1930) - Helen Leslie
  One Good Turn (1930) - Ruth Eton
  Stage Struck (1931)
  Old Lace (1931)
  Words & Music (1931) - Ruth Eton
  Radio Salutes (1931)
  A Mail Bride (1932)
  A Regular Trouper (1932) - Ruth Eton
  Artistic Temper (1932) - Ruth Whitney / Ruth White
  A Modern Cinderella (1932) - Anita Ragusa
  Bye-Gones (1933) - Aunt Ruth
  Along Came Ruth (1933) - Ruth Etting a.k.a. Ruth Eldridge
   
  Crashing the Gate (1933)
  Knee Deep in Music (1933)
  California Weather (1933)
  A Torch Tango (1934)
  The Song of Fame (1934) - Ruth Eaton
  Derby Decade (1934) - Della Delmar
  Southern Style (1934)
  No Contest! (1934) - Ruth
  Bandits and Ballads (1934)
  An Old Spanish Onion (1935)
  Ticket or Leave It (1935)
  Tuned Out (1935) - Ruth, the Dixie Song Bird
  Alladin from Manhattan (1936)
  Melody in May (1936) - herself
  Sleepy Time (1936) - (final film role)
caption: Lobby card from No Contest!, 1934
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