Ball of Fire (1941)

Directed by

Howard Hawks

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 244 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A team of professors writing an encyclopedia meet a nightclub performer who teaches them about things not in books. Sparks fly between the most straitlaced professor and the lively performer.

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What happens

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 preservation in its National Film Registry. In 1948, Hawks recycled the plot for a musical film, A Song Is Born, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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