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.
9 April 1900, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1909, Covington County, Mississippi, USA
February 17, 1900 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
20 August 1906, Michigan City, Indiana, USA
19 April 1888, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
21 February 1913, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 July 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 July 1891, Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
23 January 1907, White Plains, New York, USA
10 March 1905, Camberwell, London, England, UK
6 August 1908, New York City, New York, USA
18 March 1923, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
April 27, 1918 in Drayton, North Dakota, USA
1 January 1875, Ashby, Massachusetts, USA
November 23, 1894 in Greenville, Pennsylvania, USA
26 February 1905, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
2 May 1879, Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
November 22, 1922 in El Paso, Texas, USA
5 March 1874, Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, UK
May 6, 1878 in Liban, Russia
18 April 1903, St. Petersburg, Russia
2 February 1883, Budapest, Austria-Hungary
2 January 1903, Pennsylvania, USA
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
26 December 1903, San Francisco, California, USA
16 July 1907, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
14 December 1909, New York, USA
October 13, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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 31, 2006
Does a fine job subverting the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs children's story.
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.
August 14, 2007
A delight.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
