Ball of Fire (1941)

Ball of Fire (1941) is a Comedy, Romance, Crime film directed by Howard Hawks, rated 7.4/10 by 244 viewers.

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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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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Directed by Howard Hawks. Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall.