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There’s no business like show business

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Song lyrics to There’s no business like show business

There’s No Business Like Show Business – performed in Annie Get Your Your GunThere’s No Business Like Show Business, the I Love Lucy episode Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined (as well as a great many other places).  Written by Irving Berlin.

There’s no business like show business like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing, everything that traffic will allow
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow

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Holiday Inn [Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire]

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Holiday Inn (1942), starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale

Editorial review of Holiday Inn courtesy of Amazon.com

This perennial, Christmas-season favorite from 1942 teamed Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as entertainers (and rival suitors of Marjorie Reynolds) running an inn that is only open on holidays. It’s a great excuse for lots of singing and dancing, seamlessly wrapped in a catchy story, and Astaire’s frequent director Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Shall We Dance?) doesn’t let us down. The Irving Berlin numbers (each one connected to a different holiday) are winners. Crosby’s warm performance of “White Christmas” is a movie touchstone. –Tom Keogh

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