Ball of Fire
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.
Howard Hawks
Casts & Crew
Gary Cooper
Barbara Stanwyck
Oskar Homolka
Henry Travers
S.Z. Sakall
Tully Marshall
Leonid Kinskey
Richard Haydn
Aubrey Mather
Allen Jenkins
Dana Andrews
Dan Duryea
Ralph Peters
Kathleen Howard
Mary Field
Charles Lane
Charles Arnt
Elisha Cook Jr.
Alan Rhein
Eddie Foster
Aldrich Bowker
Addison Richards
Pat West
Kenneth Howell
Tommy Ryan
Tim Ryan
Will Lee
Gene Krupa
George Barton
Doria Caron
Eddy Chandler
Ken Christy
Edward Clark
Ruth Clifford
Yvonne Duval
Pat Flaherty
Otto Hoffman
Ethelreda Leopold
Joyce Matthews
Lorraine Miller
Patsy Moran
Mildred Morris
Edward Mundy
Gerald Pierce
Lynne Roberts
Francis Sayles
Helen Seamon
George Sherwood
Walter Shumway
Bert Stevens
Russell Wade
Chalky Williams
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