There’s No Business Like Show Business.
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✎ Suggest a correctionStars Ethel Merman and Donald O'Connor in the story of a vaudeville family who made their way from the Hinterlands to Broadway. Depicts the trials and tribulations of the Donahues and includes such Irving Berlin greats as Alexander's Ragtime Band, Simple Melody and There's No Business Like Show Business.
In 1919, Terence Donahue and his wife Molly are a husband-and-wife vaudeville team known as the Donahues. Their children, Steve, Katy, and Tim, join the act one by one, and their act eventually becomes the Five Donahsues. One night after a show, a worried Molly and Terry return home alone while Katy goes out on a date, Steve takes a walk, and the womanizing Tim goes out with an older chorus girl.
In 1919, Terence Donahue and his wife Molly are a husband-and-wife vaudeville team known as the Donahues. Their children, Steve, Katy, and Tim, join the act one by one, and their act eventually becomes the Five Donahsues. One night after a show, a worried Molly and Terry return home alone while Katy goes out on a date, Steve takes a walk, and the womanizing Tim goes out with an older chorus girl.
Credits
- Directed by
- Walter Lang
- Written by
- Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, Lamar Trotti
- Cast
- Marilyn Monroe, Frank McHugh, Ethel Merman, Mitzi Gaynor, George Chakiris, Gavin Gordon, Barry Norton, Donald O'Connor, Lee Patrick, Hugh O'Brian, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, Richard Eastham, Rhys Williams, Dorothy Adams, Eve Miller
- Produced by
- Sol C. Siegel
- Cinematography
- Leon Shamroy
- Music
- Irving Berlin
- Edited by
- Robert L. Simpson
Copyright
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 17Dec54; LP4456.
Complete catalog record
THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 117 min., sd., color, 35mm. CinemaScope. Based on a story by Lamar Trotti. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 17Dec54; LP4456., Stars Ethel Merman and Donald O'Connor in the story of a vaudeville family who made their way from the Hinterlands to Broadway. Depicts the trials and tribulations of the Donahues and includes such Irving Berlin greats as Alexander's Ragtime Band, Simple Melody and There's No Business Like Show Business. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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