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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.
Among actors announced for the cast who did not end up in Ball of Fire were Phil Silvers and Miss America 1941 Rosemary La Planche. Had Carole Lombard agreed to star in Ball of Fire it might have saved her life.
- Howard Hawks
- Gary Cooper
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
Mar 6, 2013 · Ball of Fire is a book-end to the classic era of screwball comedy that was begun by Howard Hawks with Twentieth Century back in 1934. That movie is often credited with creating the blueprint for the genre, “A dizzy dame, a charming but befuddled hero, dazzling dialogue and a dash of slapstick.”
Mar 13, 2011 · Both Ginger Rogers and Carole Lombard turned down the role of Sugarpuss O’Shea, and Hawks considered several other actresses, including Jean Arthur, Betty Field, and Lucille Ball, before deciding on Barbara Stanwyck.
Dec 30, 2021 · Ball of Fire follows Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), one of eight professors cohabiting while they collaborate on an encyclopedia. Bertram’s specialty is slang, but after conversing with a garbage...
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In his biography of Howard Hawks, critic Todd McCarthy found it utterly charming, but not up to Hawks’ other comedies, while in his critical study Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema, critic Richard Corliss thought the script was marvelous but that Hawks had trouble pacing it.
