Ball of Fire
1941 film by Howard Hawks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ball of Fire (also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen) is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The Samuel Goldwyn Productions film (originally distributed by RKO) concerns a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge. The supporting cast includes Oscar Homolka, S. Z. Sakall, Henry Travers, Richard Haydn, Dana Andrews, and Dan Duryea.
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Directed by | Howard Hawks |
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Based on | From A to Z by Thomas Monroe and Billy Wilder |
Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
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Cinematography | Gregg Toland |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
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Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2,641,000 (worldwide rentals)[2][3] |
In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry.[4][5] In 1948, Hawks recycled the plot for a musical film, A Song Is Born, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.[6]