Ball of Fire
“I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss—THE JERK!”
7.4(246) 1941-12-02 111 minComedyRomanceCrime
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.
DirectorHoward Hawks
ScreenplayCharles Brackett
ScreenplayBilly Wilder
ProducerSamuel Goldwyn
Original Music ComposerAlfred Newman
Cast & characters
Gary Cooper
as Professor Bertram Potts
Barbara Stanwyck
as Sugarpuss O’Shea
Oskar Homolka
as Prof. Gurkakoff
Henry Travers
as Prof. Jerome
S.Z. Sakall
as Prof. Magenbruch
Tully Marshall
as Prof. Robinson
Leonid Kinskey
as Prof. Quintana
Richard Haydn
as Prof. Oddly
Aubrey Mather
as Prof. Peagram
Allen Jenkins
as Garbage Man
Dana Andrews
as Joe Lilac
Dan Duryea
as Duke Pastrami
Ralph Peters
as Asthma Anderson
Kathleen Howard
as Miss Bragg
Charles Lane
as Larsen
Charles Arnt
as McNeary
Elisha Cook Jr.
as Waiter
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Mary Field
as Miss Totten
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Alan Rhein
as 'Horseface'
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Eddie Foster
as Pinstripe
Aldrich Bowker
as Justice of the Peace
Addison Richards
as District Attorney
Kenneth Howell
as College Boy
Tim Ryan
as Motor Policeman
