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!”

The family act starts to come apart when Tim (Donald O'Connor), the youngest son, meets Vicky (Marilyn Monroe), a hat-check girl. Until then Molly (Ethel Merman) and Terence (Dan Dailey) have kept their vaudeville act running with their three children, billed together as The Five Donahues. In Walter Lang's film, built on Irving Berlin songs, the act and the family are the same thing, and nobody can leave one without leaving the other.