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Ball Of Fire
Ball Of Fire will bring us to the attractive story of a group of ivory-tower lexicographers. They realize that they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer avoid police and escape from the Mob.
18 April 1903, St. Petersburg, Russia
26 January 1905, San Francisco, California, USA
17 December 1885, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, UK
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
2 May 1879, Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
May 6, 1878 in Liban, Russia
4 August 1906, Russia
12 August 1898, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
15 January 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 17, 1900 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
1 January 1909, Covington County, Mississippi, USA
2 February 1883, Budapest, Austria-Hungary
March 20, 2015
Great, deep, humane, well-built comedy. But throw in Barbara Stanwyck's unbelievable act of character creation, and that's when Ball of Fire becomes its best self.
July 07, 2010
One of the best screwball comedies.
August 14, 2007
Casting is meticulously perfect to make every character a caricature of itself.
May 24, 2007
After the rush of His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire is a more sedate ride, full of such marvelous passages as the conga line Stanwyck's delectable Sugarpuss teaches the professors.
January 26, 2006
Pure joy.
February 04, 2009
Actor Cooper plays his Mr. Deeds role with the authority of long familiarity, and Miss Stanwyck (once Ruby Stevens, of Brooklyn) is equally at home in hers.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Cooper may be a little loose-tooth in spots, but he gives a homespun performance such as only he can give. Miss Stanwyck is plenty yum-yum (meaning scorchy) in her worldly temptress role.
August 14, 2007
A delight.
February 18, 2011
'I've gone goofy, completely goofy,' Cooper says, as the chaos of slang overwhelms his orderly vocabulary: 'Bim-buggy, slap-happy.' Watching 'Ball of Fire,' you feel similarly liberated.
January 31, 2006
Does a fine job subverting the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs children's story.
December 22, 2015
Ball of Fire came out five days before Pearl Harbor. You can imagine Americans listening to its flood of slang and knowing exactly what they were fighting for.
June 24, 2007
As the timid professor and burlesque stripper, Cooper and Stanwyck are at the top of their form in Hawks' delectable screwball comedy, based on a witty script from Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
