Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

7.4IMDb Score
Released:1941-12-02
Duration:111 min
Director:Howard Hawks
Actors:Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall
Production:Samuel Goldwyn Productions

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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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

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