Ball of Fire

USA 1941, 112 minutes
English
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Classics, Comedy / Screwball, Romance

Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, Kathleen Howard, Mary Field, Dan Duryea

Aroview: Screwball comedy with Gary Cooper playing a professor working hard on a new encyclopedia with his colleagues, who meets a nightclub performer (Barbara Stanwyck) who assists him in his work in exchange for protecting her from her mob boss boyfriend. An outrageous, twisted version of the Snow White story with a revenge-of-the-nerds theme and a lot of delightful wordplay.