There's No Business Like Show Business (film)
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| There's No Business Like Show Business | |
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| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Produced by | Sol C. Siegel |
| Written by | Lamar Trotti (story) Phoebe Ephron Henry Ephron |
| Starring | Ethel Merman Donald O'Connor Marilyn Monroe |
| Music by | Irving Berlin (songs) |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | December 16, 1954 U.S. release |
| Running time | 117 min |
| Language | English |
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There's No Business Like Show Business is a 20th Century Fox film that was released on December 16, 1954. The title is borrowed from the famous song in the musical Annie Get Your Gun. It stars Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor, and Johnnie Ray. It was directed by Walter Lang and written by Lamar Trotti (story) and Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron. The movie was Ethel Merman's first film in widescreen; it was filmed in CinemaScope.
The film depicts the traveling, singing and dancing Donahue Family, with Merman and Dailey as the parents, and O'Connor, Ray, and Gaynor as their adult children. It proved to be a disappointment both commercially and critically[citation needed], but it remains the only film in which Merman sings that song (although she did reprise it in the 1967 television version of "Annie Get Your Gun") "Show Business" was an extremely expensive movie. It did not make back its cost[citation needed], but it did attract a considerable audience.
Monroe did not want to make this film but agreed after Fox promised her the lead in Billy Wilder's screen version of the Broadway hit, The Seven Year Itch.
