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  1. Ball of Fire: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers. A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

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    • Comedy, Romance
    • Howard Hawks
    • 1942-01-09
  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ball_of_FireBall of Fire - Wikipedia

    Ball of Fire (also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen) is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The Samuel Goldwyn Productions film (originally distributed by RKO ) concerns a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a ...

  3. A splendidly funny twist on the story of Snow White, Ball of Fire boasts a pair of perfect leads in Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Hoping to update his chapter on modern slang, encyclopedia ...

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    • Gary Cooper
    • Howard Hawks
    • Comedy
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  5. Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper and Dana AndrewsBall of Fire (1941) Official Trailer - Barbara Stanwyck MovieA group of ivory-tower lexicographers re...

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  6. Ball Of Fire (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Two And Two Are Five Allen Jenkins is the garbage man, seeking trivia help from encyclopedia-writing professors (Oscar Homolka, Aubrey Mather, Richard Haydn, S.Z. Sakall et al), Potts (Gary Cooper) committing to new research, in Howard Hawks' Ball Of Fire, 1942.

    • Howard Hawks
    • Gary Cooper
  7. Sexy, wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice: mobster boyfriend Joe Lilac is suspected of murder and Sugarpuss' testimony could put him away. Naive Professor Bertram Potts meets Miss O'Shea while researching an article on slang and in true romantic comedy fashion the two worlds collide.

  8. 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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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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