Entr'acte

I think technically there is a difference between an Entr'acte and an Intermission.

As far as movies are concerned, an Entr'acte, being as it is a break, is the same as an intermission, but it was not just to give audiences a break somewhere around the middle of a long movie, but I believe it was also meant to include some music especially composed and recorded for that particular movie (more than likely composed by the same composer who composed the rest of the movie's soundtrack). An Intermission was/is a break that may or may not have included music, or if it did include music, it might have been just some random background music the theater played over the theater's speakers.

So anyway, in this movie, if it says Entr'acte and you hear some sort of symphonic music during that stretch, it was specially planned that way by the director and composer. Think of it as a customized musical Intermission.

Hope that makes sense.

I just saw it on TCM and there was no overture or entr'acte. I thought TCM always included that stuff. I guess they're not as pure as they claim to be.