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Ball of Fire is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. It tells the story of a group of professors who write an encyclopedia and fall in love with a nightclub singer.
Ball of Fire: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers. A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Howard Hawks
- 1942-01-09
Apr 29, 2022 · Ball Of Fire by Howard Hawks. Publication date 1941 Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International Topics Cinema Language English Item Size
- 112 min
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Aug 30, 2016 · Watch the official trailer of Ball of Fire, a romantic comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. The film follows a group of linguists who help a singer escape from the Mob.
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A romantic comedy about a nightclub singer who hides from the mob in a house of eight professors working on an encyclopedia. She teaches them slang, dancing and kissing, while the professors try to save their project and their sanity.
Ball of Fire. Hoping to update his chapter on modern slang, encyclopedia writer Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) ventures into a chic nightclub. Inside, he meets the snarky burlesque ...
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- Romance, Comedy
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.
