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Ball of Fire(Movie, 1941)

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| 1h 51min | Genres: Comedy, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 79 votes)

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 nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge. The supporting cast includes Oscar Homolka, S. Z. Sakall, Henry Travers, Richard Haydn, Dana Andrews, and Dan Duryea. In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for prese... ()

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Awards & Nominations for Ball of Fire

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress nominated for: Academy Award for Best Story nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score nominated for: Academy Award for Best Sound

About Ball of Fire

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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.

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Ball of Fire (1941) Official Trailer - Barbara Stanwyck Movie(Trailer, 2:09)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York City (NYC)

Made by: Samuel Goldwyn Company, The

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 13 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/02/1941

Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S. Z. Sakall, Richard Haydn, Allen Jenkins, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Elisha Cook Jr., Gene Krupa, Tully Marshall, Leonid Kinskey, Aubrey Mather, Kathleen Howard, Otto Hoffman, Charles Lane, Addison Richards, Kenneth Howell, Pat Flaherty, Will Lee, Mary Field, Eddy Chandler

Director: Howard Hawks

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Screenwriter: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

Film Editor: Daniel Mandell

Director of Photography: Gregg Toland

Composer: Alfred Newman

Costume designer: Edith Head

Production Designer: Perry Ferguson

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Bola de fuego"

"Vuurbol"

"Wirbelwind der Liebe"

"Professoren og korpigen"

"Jään tänne yöksi"

"O kathigitis kai i gymni horeftria"

"Szőke szélvész"

"Colpo di fulmine"

"Acht professoren en een meisje"

"Ognista kula"

"The Professor and the Burlesque Queen"

Keywords: slang, us republican party, conga, professor, gangster, research, encyclopedia, nightclub performer, singer, marriage proposal, nightclub

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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