Ball of Fire
“I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss—THE JERK!”
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12/2/1941Runtime
111 minsOverview
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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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EnglishBudget
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$2,641,000Homepage
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A sprightly screwball romance where a sheltered academic professor collides with a sharp, worldly nightclub singer in his cloistered encyclopedia house. It's a fizzy, affectionate comedy about two people from opposite worlds learning each other's language, literally and romantically.
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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
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