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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.
- (14K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Howard Hawks
- 1942-01-09
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 ...
- December 2, 1941
- Samuel Goldwyn
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
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
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Ball of Fire is 11985 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 8040 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Notes from the Field but less popular than West of Hell.
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- Howard Hawks
- 1941
- 28
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.