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There's No Business Like Show Business

“With Love and Kisses from 20th Century-Fox...Straight from the Shoulder, Right from the Heart Comes...The Musicavalcade and the Personal Story of the Greatest Business on Earth!”

6.1 / 10

1954

118 min

MusicComedy

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

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Cast

Ethel Merman

Molly Donahue

Marilyn Monroe

Vicky

Mitzi Gaynor

Katy Donahue

Dan Dailey

Terence Donahue

Donald O'Connor

Tim Donahue

Johnnie Ray

Steve Donahue

Richard Eastham

Lew Harris

Hugh O'Brian

Charles Gibbs

Frank McHugh

Eddie Dugan

Rhys Williams

Father Dineen

Lee Patrick

Marge

Eve Miller

Helen

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