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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.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Howard Hawks
- 1942-01-09
English. Box office. $2,641,000 (worldwide rentals) [2] [3] 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.
Watchlist. Hoping to update his chapter on modern slang, encyclopedia writer Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) ventures into a chic nightclub. Inside, he meets the snarky burlesque...
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- Gary Cooper
- Howard Hawks
- Comedy
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Ball of Fire was the 25th highest-grossing film of 1942, taking in $2.2 million at the box office. With the success of Ball of Fire and Sergeant York (1941), Gary Cooper ranked seventh at the box office for 1941. 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.
Jun 29, 2020 · Directed by Howard Hawks. 111mins. (1941) Gary Cooper - Prof. Bertram Potts. 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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.
