There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954) Review
There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954)
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My Review
“There’s No Business Like Show Business” is a top-rate lavish musical production from director Walter Lang (“The King and I” 1956) and screenwriters Henry Ephron and Nora Ephron. The title song gave star Ethel Merman the signature number of her career.
The story of the ups and downs of a family vaudeville team was not a huge hit with the public or critics in 1954, but gained wider acceptance as the years rolled on. It received three Academy Award nominations: Best Costume Design, Best Story (Lamar Trotti), and Best Original Score/Musical (Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman).
Cast members turned in outstanding performances including Ethel Merman, Donald O’Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnny Ray, Mitzi Gaynor, Hugh O’Brian, Frank McHugh, Rhys Williams, Lee Patrick, Richard Eastham, Robin Raymond, and Eve Miller as the hatcheck girl. “There’s No Business Like Show Business” was the first movie musical filmed in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color for 20th Century Fox and producer Sol C. Siegel.
There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954)
cinema
My Review
“There’s No Business Like Show Business” is a top-rate lavish musical production from director Walter Lang (“The King and I” 1956) and screenwriters Henry Ephron and Nora Ephron. The title song gave star Ethel Merman the signature number of her career.
The story of the ups and downs of a family vaudeville team was not a huge hit with the public or critics in 1954, but gained wider acceptance as the years rolled on. It received three Academy Award nominations: Best Costume Design, Best Story (Lamar Trotti), and Best Original Score/Musical (Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman).
Cast members turned in outstanding performances including Ethel Merman, Donald O’Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnny Ray, Mitzi Gaynor, Hugh O’Brian, Frank McHugh, Rhys Williams, Lee Patrick, Richard Eastham, Robin Raymond, and Eve Miller as the hatcheck girl. “There’s No Business Like Show Business” was the first movie musical filmed in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color for 20th Century Fox and producer Sol C. Siegel.