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Ball of Fire (1941) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 25, 1998
Running Time
1 hour, 51 minutes
Country USA
Studio Samuel Goldwyn Company
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Other Titles
• The Professor and the Burlesque Queen (1941)
• Die Merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss (1976)
• Wirbelwind der Liebe (1976)
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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Gangsters, Hostage, Mistaken Identity, Police, Farce, Culture Clash, Love Triangle
Plot: BALL OF FIRE opens with a group of eight mild-mannered professors who are hard at work compiling an encyclopedia. Work is dull but progressing well until language expert Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) realizes his section on slang is outdated. For research he ventures into the outside world, where he encounters nightclub singer Sugarpuss O’Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), who, thanks to her mobster boyfriend, Joe Lilac (Dana Andrews), needs a place to hide out. The professors are only too happy to have a woman living among them, and the brassy singer teaches them more than slang, in the process livening up their academic lives with nylons and conga lines. Potts becomes infatuated with Sugarpuss, but when Joe wants her back, things get complicated. A lively romantic comedy with top performances from Cooper, an Oscar-nominated Stanwyck, and a terrific cast of supporting actors, the film also features Gene Krupa and His Orchestra. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Story. Hawks went on to remake the film in 1948 as the musical A SONG IS BORN, starring Danny Kaye.
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| Written by |
| Billy Wilder
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| Cast |
Gary Cooper
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Alfred Newman
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