Other Titles • There's No Business Like Show Business • Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) • Rhythmus im Blut (1954)
Synopses for There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
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Walter Lang's lush musical story--buoyed by Irving Berlin's brilliant score--follows the Donahues, a singing, dancing, drinking Irish Catholic family, as they rise to fame on the theater circuit during vaudeville’s last hurrah between World War I and World War II. The stellar cast includes a young Marilyn Monroe, physical comic whiz Donald O’Connor, pop singer Johnny Ray, and dancing phenomenon Mitzi Gaynor. With lavish production numbers, which rival those of any other musical of the 1950s, and numerous famous tunes, including "Remember," "Heat Wave," "Play a Simple Melody," and the showstopping title tune (belted out by the incomparable Ethel Merman), THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS is an exuberant geyser of vaudevillian panache, star power, and song.
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Marilyn Monroe and an all-star cast are featured in Irving Berlin's tuneful depiction of the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. The talented Donahue family has plenty of love to get them through the hard times - that is, until they cross paths with a rising starlet (Monroe) whose own ambitions may make or break them. Co-Starring Ethel Merman and Donald O'Connor, this delightful classic delivers dazzling production numbers and masterful show tunes!
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The 1954 dinosaur There's No Business Like Show Business brought together two giants of Broadway, Ethel Merman and Irving Berlin, just as their moment was passing forever, to create one last hurrah: a celebration of the glories that were vaudeville. Still, it's hard to imagine Broadway--or nightclub entertaining, for that matter--ever being quite this lavish and satisfying. The story centres on a married couple, the Donahues (Dan Dailey and Merman), who live on the road as vaudeville entertainers and, as they have children, begin incorporating the kids into the act. Eventually, the kids grow up to be Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnny Ray--and they begin having interests of their own. Donald's is an ambitious showgirl (Marilyn Monroe), whose stand-offish response to his romantic overtures drives him to drink. The film is best remembered for its lavish, splashy production numbers built around some of the best of the Berlin songbook, including the title tune and "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" among others. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
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