1954 · fox · berlin · merman
There's No Business Like Show Business
Directed by Walter Lang1h 58m1954
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.
Our read: There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded fox · berlin · merman entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured fox / berlin, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
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