7.5
““I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss—THE JERK!””
Ball of Fire (1941)
December 2, 19411h 51mEN
7.4
240 votes
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.
Director
Howard HawksWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Revenue
$2.6M
Production Companies
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
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CinemaSerf
7.0This is a cracking little comedy with Gary Cooper as the unlikely boffin "Prof. Potts" who, alongside a group of equally eminent academics has been working on an encyclopaedia for the previous 9 years - and they've only got to "S". Enter the mailman who is doing a radio quiz just as our professor is concluding his section on slang - only for him to realise that their studious isolation has left them so out of touch as to render his slang definition worthless. Off he sets into the city to learn more where he alights on night-club singer "Sugarpuss O'Shea" (Barbara Stanwyck) and her colleagues w…
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