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Ball of Fire

Release Date:January 9, 1942

Running Time:111 min

Genres:Comedy, Crime, Romance

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Cast

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

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.

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