Terry (Dan Dailey) and Molly (Ethel Merman) are vaudeville performers who eventually add their three children to the act to become 'The Five Donahues.' Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Critics Of "There's No Business Like Show Business"
DVDLaser
June 15, 2007
The movie does not blend the magic of music, dance, and emotion in the way which the best musicals do.
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
July 26, 2003
Overstuffed and cornball, but some great Berlin musical numbers, especially Monroe's "Heat Wave."
EmanuelLevy.Com
July 27, 2012
Though Marilyn Monroe was the country's biggest movie star, this plotless musical, a tribute to the genius composer Irving Berlin, belongs to Ethel Merman.
