There's No Business Like Show Business

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

U3 June 2002 (GB)Music, Comedy1 hour and 57 minutes
60%
User score

With Love and Kisses from 20th Century-Fox...Straight from the Shoulder, Right from the Heart Comes...The Musicavalcade and the Personal Story of the Greatest Business on Earth!

Description

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Walter Lang
Director
Phoebe Ephron
Screenplay
Henry Ephron
Screenplay
Lamar Trotti
Story

Actors

Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman
Molly Donahue
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Vicky
Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor
Katy Donahue
Dan Dailey
Dan Dailey
Terence Donahue
Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor
Tim Donahue
Johnnie Ray
Johnnie Ray
Steve Donahue
Richard Eastham
Richard Eastham
Lew Harris
Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian
Charles Gibbs
Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh
Eddie Dugan
Rhys Williams
Rhys Williams
Father Dineen
Lee Patrick
Lee Patrick
Marge
Eve Miller
Eve Miller
Helen
Dorothy Abbott
Dorothy Abbott
Showgirl (uncredited)
Lyle Talbot
Lyle Talbot
Stage Manager (uncredited)
George Chakiris
George Chakiris
Dancer (uncredited)
John Doucette
John Doucette
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Alvy Moore
Alvy Moore
Katy's Date (uncredited)
Ron Nyman
Ron Nyman
Tattooed Sailor (uncredited)
Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell (voice) (uncredited)
Dorothy Adams
Dorothy Adams
Nurse (uncredited)
Status

Released

Original language

English

Budget

$4,300,000

Revenue

$7,100,000

Keywords
new york citydancerfamily historymusicalsingercinemascopevaudevillesong and dancetheatre audiencemusical revuebroadway starbroadway showhat check girl1920s1940s1930spriesthoodstage actresseve of world war iihippodromebrother sister actmusical familyhusband and wife actfamily act