There's No Business Like Show Business with Ethel Merman: DVD Cover

    There's No Business Like Show Business Director: Walter Lang Cast: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/29/2001
    • Original Release: 1954
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 9,926

    Viewer Rating: (1 ratings)

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    Features

    Anamorphic widescreen [aspect ratio: 2.35:1]; English 4.0 Surround; English stereo; Subtitles: English, Spanish; Theatrical trailers; Portuguese theatrical trailer

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    Scene Index

    Side #1
    0. Scene Selection
    1. Main Titles [:15]
    2. Meet The Donohues [1:29]
    3. A Better Life [4:54]
    4. A New Act [2:45]
    5. Trouble At School [2:43]
    6. To Make A Buck [3:11]
    7. Alexander's Ragtime Band [2:02]
    8. The Hat-check Girl [7:45]
    9. After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It [1:11]
    10. The "interview" [2:24]
    11. What A Family! [5:12]
    12. Steve's Goodbye Party [3:48]
    13. If You Believe [2:15]
    14. Sorry, Wrong Number [4:01]
    15. Heat Wave [3:27]
    16. Tim's Plans [3:50]
    17. A Man Chases A Girl (until She Catches Him) [4:27]
    18. The Kids' Big News [3:57]
    19. Lazy [3:48]
    20. Father Donohue [:18]
    21. Big Star Blues [2:44]
    22. The Show Must Go On [5:12]
    23. A Sailor's Not A Sailor ('til A Sailor's Been Tattooed) [1:32]
    24. The Trouble With Tim [2:27]
    25. Terry's Decision [6:46]
    26. Something In Common [:09]
    27. There's No Business Like Show Business [1:32]
    28. Together Again [5:41]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its thinnish plot held together by an itinerary of Irving Berlin tunes. The story chronicles some twenty years in the lives of a showbiz family, headed by Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman. Two of the couple's three grown children -- Donald O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor -- carry on the family tradition, while the third, Johnny Ray, decides to become a priest. There are a few tense moments when O'Connor falls in love with ambitious chorine Marilyn Monroe and loses all sense of perspective, but the family reunites during a splashy production-number finale. Highlights include Dailey and Merman's "Play a Simple Melody" duet, O'Connor's "A Man Chases a Girl" solo, and Monroe's tempestuous rendition of "Heat Wave" (her delivery and stage presence both compensate for her unflattering bare-midriff costume). Of historical interest, There's No Business Like Show Business was Fox's first CinemaScope musical; as such, it is best viewed on TV in "letterbox" format. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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