There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) on Netflix
Approved19541h 57mComedyDramaMusical
Husband and wife Terence and Molly Donahue play vaudeville, and their children Steve, Katy and Tim join the act as The Five Donahues. Tim meets an aspiring performer, Vicky.
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Plot summary
Molly Donahue and her husband Terence perform a vaudeville act together. Their children Steve, Katy and Tim join them in the early 1920s, and the family is billed as The Five Donahues. The children attend a Catholic boarding school in Boston, and Molly insists they remain enrolled. The family settles in New Jersey, and after the 1929 stock market crash the theater company stops booking them. Tim and Katy sneak out to Gallagher's nightclub, where Tim meets an aspiring performer named Vicky.
Cast
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- Ron Nymanas Tattooed Sailor (uncredited)
- Ed Oliveras Bandleader (as Eddie Oliver)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
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- Marilyn Monroe only joined There's No Business Like Show Business after her Fox suspension was lifted; the studio had intended to cast Sheree North, even screen-testing her in Monroe's own wardrobe. Monroe then refused until Fox promised her The Seven Year Itch, and demanded a $3,000-a-week raise.
- To publicize the film, Marilyn Monroe wore a black cotton polka-dot swimsuit that went to auction at Christie's in London in 1991 and sold for $22,400 to collector David Gainsborough Roberts.
