There's No Business Like Show Business (film)
1954 musical-comedy drama directed by Walter Lang / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business is a 1954 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Walter Lang. It stars an ensemble cast, consisting of Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, and Mitzi Gaynor.
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Directed by | Walter Lang |
Screenplay by | |
Story by | Lamar Trotti |
Produced by | Sol C. Siegel |
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Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
Edited by | Robert Simpson |
Music by | Irving Berlin |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4.3 million[1][2] |
Box office | $5.1 million (domestic)[3] $2 million (foreign estimate)[2] |
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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;[4] and the movie was Fox's first musical in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color.[5]
O'Connor later called the film the best picture he ever made.[6]