irving berlin wrote the song there's no business like show business.
irving berlin wrote the song there's no business like show business.
who wrote the song there's no business like show business?
irving berlin
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"there's no business like show business" is an irving berlin song, written for the 1946 musical "annie get your gun" and orchestrated by ted royal. the song, a slightly tongue-in-cheek salute to the glamour and excitement of a life in show business, is sung in the musical by members of "buffalo bill's wild west" show in an attempt to persuade annie oakley to join the production. it is reprised three times in the musical.
there's no business like show business
ethel merman had first sung "there's no business like show business" in the original broadway production of "annie get your gun" in 1946 and would go on to sing it again in the 1967 television broadcast of the subsequent lincoln center revival.









































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to publicize the film, monroe wore a black cotton polka-dot swimsuit. it went on auction at christie's in london in 1991 and sold for $22,400 to collector david gainsborough roberts.









































despite boasting a lavish production, "there's no business like show business" eventually became both a critical and box office failure.
there's no business like show business (film)