Film
Ball of Fire
1941 · 1h 51m · Comedy · Romance · Crime
“I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss—THE JERK!”
- IMDb
- 7.7
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100%
- Metacritic
- 78
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Overview
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Cast
Gary Cooper
Professor Bertram Potts
Barbara Stanwyck
Sugarpuss O’Shea
Oskar Homolka
Prof. Gurkakoff
Henry Travers
Prof. Jerome
S.Z. Sakall
Prof. Magenbruch
Tully Marshall
Prof. Robinson
Leonid Kinskey
Prof. Quintana
Richard Haydn
Prof. Oddly
Aubrey Mather
Prof. Peagram
Allen Jenkins
Garbage Man
Dana Andrews
Joe Lilac
Dan Duryea
Duke Pastrami
Ralph Peters
Asthma Anderson
Kathleen Howard
Miss Bragg
Charles Lane
Larsen
Charles Arnt
McNeary
Crew
- Howard HawksDirector
- Charles BrackettScreenplay
- Billy WilderScreenplay
- Samuel GoldwynProducer
- Gregg TolandDirector of Photography
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Daniel MandellEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- December 2, 1941
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Rated
- NR
- Revenue
- $2,641,000
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance, Crime
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