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ball of fire

ORIGINAL TITLE

Ball of Fire

YEAR

1941

RUNNING TIME

112 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Howard Hawks

SCREENWRITER

Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett (Story: Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe)

COMPOSER

Alfred Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Gregg Toland (B&W)

CAST

Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, Tully Marshall, Richard Haydn, S.Z. Sakall, Audrey Mather, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Ralph Peters, Kathleen Howard, Mary Field, Charles Lane

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Samuel Goldwyn Productions

AWARDS

1941: 4 Nominations for Oscar: Actress (Stanwyck), OST (Drama), Sound, Story

GENRE

Comedy. Romance | Romantic comedy

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

8 Professors are in the 9th year of a 12 year encyclopedia writing project. The youngest is Bertram Potts who specializes in language and grammar. When Professor Potts discovers that his section on slang is outdated, he sets out to research the topic. Nightclub performer Sugarpuss O'Shea is engaged to gangster Joe Lilac. When she discovers that the police are after her, she must find a place to lay low. Then Potts meets Sugarpuss. He is impressed with her slang and wants to study it further. Sugarpuss uses his study as an excuse to invite herself to stay with the 8 Professors at their residence--a perfect hideout. She wins over the older Professors teaching them how to do a Conga Line and earns a marriage proposal from 'Pottsie' by showing him 'yum-yum'. However, Joe Lilac resurfaces with other plans for Sugarpuss.

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