There's No Business Like Show Business (film)

Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business
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Directed by	Walter Lang
Produced by	Sol C. Siegel
Screenplay by	Phoebe Ephron Henry Ephron
Story by	Lamar Trotti
Starring	Ethel Merman Donald O'Connor Marilyn Monroe Dan Dailey Johnnie Ray Mitzi Gaynor
Music by	Irving Berlin (songs)
Cinematography	Leon Shamroy
Edited by	Robert L. Simpson
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	December 16, 1954
Running time	117 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4,340,000
Box office	$5,103,555

Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business is a 1954 20th Century-Fox musical-comedy-drama, directed by Walter Lang. It stars an ensemble cast, consisting of Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe, Johnnie Ray, and Richard Eastham.

The title is borrowed from the famous song in the stage musical (and MGM film) Annie Get Your Gun. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, based on a story by Lamar Trotti; and the movie was Fox's first musical in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color.

Donald O'Connor later called the film the best picture he ever made.

In 1919, Terence (Dan Dailey) and Molly Donahue (Ethel Merman), a husband-and-wife vaudeville team known as the Donahues, pursue both a stable family life as well as professional success. The kids Steve (Johnnie Ray), Katy (Mitzi Gaynor), and Tim (Donald O'Connor) join the act one by one, and their act eventually becomes the Five Donahues. The family is a success and soon hit the top.