Samuel Goldwyn Productions
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Ball of Fire
“I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss—THE JERK!”
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.
- Original title
- Ball of Fire
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- $2,641,000
CinemaSerf
Jun 25, 2022 · via TMDB
This is a cracking little comedy with Gary Cooper as the unlikely boffin "Prof. Potts" who, alongside a group of equally eminent academics has been working on an encyclopaedia for the previous 9 years - and they've only got to "S". Enter the mailman who is doing a radio quiz just as our professor is concluding his section on slang - only for him to realise that their studious isolation has left them so out of touch as to render his slang definition worthless. Off he sets into the city to learn more where he alights on night-club singer "Sugarpuss O'Shea" (Barbara Stanwyck) and her colleagues who offer him a fascinatingly new vernacular. Turns out that she is the moll of wanted gangster "Joe Lilac" (Dana Andrews) so she agrees to help them develop their book whilst using their dignified home as a hideaway. A bit like Greer Garson in "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (1939), only much feistier, she melts the hearts of the old starched shirts and soon Cooper has become totally smitten.... Both leads are on top form; the writing barely comes up for breath as this pacy, engaging comedy comes to a suitably Damoclean conclusion... Great fun!
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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
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Charles Lane
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Charles Arnt
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Elisha Cook Jr.
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Aldrich Bowker
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Kenneth Howell
College Boy
Tim Ryan
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Himself — Orchestra Leader
Pat West
Bum
Tommy Ryan
Newsboy
Will Lee
“Benny — the Creep”
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Cop on Garbage Truck (uncredited)
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Otto Hoffman
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Nursemaid at Park (uncredited)
Lorraine Miller
Girl in Café (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Lynne Roberts
Veiled Woman in Gene Krupa’s Audience (uncredited)
Russell Wade
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Martha Tilton
Sugarpuss O'Shea (singing voice) (uncredited)
Hal McIntyre
Saxaphonist (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
Jack Perry
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
Joyce Mathews
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Gregg Toland
Director of Photography
Edith Head
Costume Design
Edith Head
Costumer
Samuel Goldwyn
Presenter
Howard Hawks
Director
Daniel Mandell
Editor
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Alfred Newman
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Martha Tilton
Vocals
Billy Wilder
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