Ball of Fire
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Ball of Fire is a 1941 comedy film about an attractive nightclub singer who lands herself in a den of professors while trying to hide from the police to avoid testifying against her mobster boyfriend.
- Directed by Howard Hawks. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.
Sugarpuss O'Shea[edit]
- I love him because he's a kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk.
- [about the professors' workroom] Say, who decorated this place? The mug that shot Lincoln?
- Who is that guy who learned so much from watching an apple drop?
Professor Bertram Potts[edit]
- [to Sugarpuss] I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.
Cast[edit]
- Barbara Stanwyck — Catherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea
- Gary Cooper — Professor Bertram Potts
External links[edit]
- Ball of Fire quotes at the Internet Movie Database
