Ball of Fire (1941)

7.4/10 111 min Comedy Romance Crime

Overview

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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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

Cast

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

Miss Bragg

Charles Lane

Larsen

Charles Arnt

McNeary

Elisha Cook Jr.

Waiter

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