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Ball of Fire

Screening on Film
Directed by Howard Hawks.
With Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews.
US, 1941, 35mm, black & white, 111 min.

An academic (Cooper) who resides in a boarding house with seven colleagues plans to write a dictionary of American slang. A series of dangerous and fortuitous events places nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea (Stanwyck) at their doorstep. When her mobster boyfriend (Andrews) comes looking for Sugarpuss, things get complicated for the smitten linguist and the doting cadre of professors. A loose parody of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, the film features a crackling screenplay written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.

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