There's No Business Like Show Business

Name: There's No Business Like Show Business
Duration: 1 h 57 min

1hr 57m

1hr 57m
3.2/5 (1.4K)
90%

A blonde beauty upsets a show business family. More Details »

Showtimes
Movie Details

Find Movie Theaters & Showtimes

for

near

We didn't find this title in your area

Browse Local Theaters

Videos & Photos

Trailer for this story about the people behind the footlights (02:45)
Clip: Heatwave (01:41)

SEE ALL VIDEOS & PHOTOS

Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Walter Lang

Producer:

Sol C. Siegel, Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer:

Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron, Lamar Trotti

Release Date:

Dec 1, 1954

Runtime:

1hr 57m

Synopsis

A blonde beauty upsets a show business family.

Cast

Ethel Merman
Donald O'Connor
Marilyn Monroe
Dan Dailey
Johnnie Ray
Mitzi Gaynor
Richard Eastham
Hugh O'Brian
Frank McHugh
Rhys Williams

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.2

RATINGS 22 FANS

3.2

Aug 12, 2020

When Marilyn isn’t onscreen: 😴🥴🤨😶😳 When Marilyn is onscreen: 🥰😀😋👌😍😝

224 Likes

olivia

Dec 16, 2018

i love how the producers were like. 'we got marilyn, we don't really need a coherent plot' and just straight up. never came up with one

156 Likes

∆

Aug 1, 2017

marilyn's the only good thing about this movie and she's barely in it

127 Likes

Sara Clements
Aug 27, 2022

Donald O'Connor called this the best movie he was ever a part of. My brother in Christ, you were in Singin' in the Rain.

101 Likes

Nat

Oct 1, 2015

I guess telling your parents that you want to become a priest was one way of telling them you were gay in the 1950s. The only thing I enjoyed about the film was Marilyn Monroe. Her character seemed more down to Earth than most characters she played during her career. It…

91 Likes

nigel

Jul 24, 2022

An ensemble cast including Ethel Merman, Donald O’Connor, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnnie Ray star in Walter Lang’s musical comedy-drama about the ups and downs a family of vaudevillians face over the years. After years of little to no competition,…

77 Likes

Josh Gillam
Jul 11, 2022

some very marvelous musical numbers, definitely

48 Likes

hustlerss

Sep 17, 2014

Though it is an undeniable treat to watch Donald O'Connor, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, and Mitzi Gaynor sing and dance to the standards of Irving Berlin, that is about all there is to "There's No Business Like Show Business." Walter Lang's splashy, CinemaScope musical is…

43 Likes

Travis Lytle

Aug 2, 2020

Mitzi Gaynor is so adorable in this! ugh there isn't nearly enough of her.

40 Likes

𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂