Available on DVD as; HBO Home Video DVD: Ball Of Fire (1998)
Also available on DVD as; Warner Home Video DVD: Ball Of Fire (2014)
Cast
Gary Cooper
as
Professor Bertram Potts
Barbara Stanwyck
as
Sugarpuss O’Shea
Oskar Homolka
as
Professor Gurkakoff (as Oscar Homolka)
Henry Travers
as
Professor Jerome
S.Z. Sakall
as
Professor Magenbruch
Tully Marshall
as
Professor Robinson
Leonid Kinskey
as
Professor Quintana
Richard Haydn
as
Professor Oddly
Aubrey Mather
as
Professor Peagram
Gene Krupa
as
Gene Krupa and His Orchestra
Allen Jenkins
as
Garbage Man
Dana Andrews
as
Joe Lilac
Dan Duryea
as
Duke Pastrami
Ralph Peters
as
Asthma Anderson
Kathleen Howard
as
Miss Bragg
Mary Field
as
Miss Totten
Charles Lane
as
Larsen
Charles Arnt
as
McNeary
Elisha Cook Jr.
as
Waiter (as Elisha Cook)
Alan Rhein
as
‘Horseface’
Eddie Foster
as
Pinstripe
Aldrich Bowker
as
Justice of the Peace
Addison Richards
as
District Attorney
Pat West
as
Bum
Kenneth Howell
as
College Boy
Tommy Ryan
as
Newsboy
Tim Ryan
as
Motor Cop
Will Lee
as
Benny, the Creep
Synopsis
Professor Bertram Potts is the youngest of eight bookish academics assembling a dictionary of slang. They find a perfect “research associate” in the curvaceous form of strip-tease dancer Kathryn “Sugar Puss” O’Shea, who has hidden out at the professors’ domicile to escape Joe Lilac, her gangster boyfriend. As Sugar Puss interprets various slang expressions, she and the professors grow quite fond of one another. She brings their personalities out from under their collegiate facades, while they revive her essential decency and genial womanhood. When Joe and his enforcer Duke Pastrami show up to claim Kathryn, the professors save the day.
