Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

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A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

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  1. Really???? Someone at YouTube might want to do a bit of personal review of movies before assigning, arbitrarily the Tag of "This video may be inappropriate for some users.

    The video you have requested has been rated Unrated and may contain content intended for mature audiences." Quite a few of these Tag's are Pure Bull Shit and interrupt playlist flows, Sloppy, very sloppy YouTube….JMHO

  2. Barbara is the cutest ❤️😍 a wonderful ball of fire amazing 💗 Miss stanwick actress of all time my favorite I just love 💕 her dearly she's the tops!!!

  3. They used part of the Gene Krupa solo in another Samuel Goldwyn movie .. The Best Years of Our Lives .. a classic movie … its when AL Stevens and his wife and daughter are out on the town his first night home from the war

  4. Benny the Creep was played by the actor that was beloved by children on the PBS children series Sesame Street , he was Mr Hopper..

  5. The story was remade a few years later, with Danny Kaye and Virgina Mayo called " A Song is Born " it's adapted as a musical with all the jazz musicians of that era , and it's fantastic , find and watch it if you can !!!!

  6. Will Lee aka. Benny the Creep in this movie and Mr Hooper in Sesame Street TV show was in the musical remake A Song is Born he played the waiter at the Dixieland Club

  7. Who's dat; Keith Moon's daddy-o? I'm still running back over and over to watch him beat on them skins… so now we know why the Great Gene Krupa was the absolute most!

  8. Well now, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, and much-cherished supporting actors, you might be pleased to know that a trained mouse was kept handily hovering over the mute button in order to minimize several obnoxious commercials (whose products will NOT be considered for purchase) that interrupted your enchanting story and performance. Thank you, and may every one, Rest In Peace.

  9. I watched about 30 seconds of this movie, and then I had to turn it off, because I couldn't hear it. If you can't turn-up the volume on your end, then don't bother posting the video. Thumbs down on this copy.

  10. Thanks, YouTube. One of my favorites as a kid; always enjoyed Gary Cooper in comedies, he had such a light touch. And the great Barbara Stanwyck – Drum Boogie on, honey! So many great "Old Hollywood" character actors, too, among the professors: Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, Richard Haydn, "Cuddles" Zakalls, and all the others, whose faces are so familiar but whose names escape me. Where did Billy Wilder get all his phenomenal ideas for stories? Genius.

  11. One of my all time favorites! Had it saved on DVR for 2 years afraid to stop Cable TV and lose it. I finally gave into just Streaming and a week later, it’s on YouTube🤔Oh well, I’m happy as can be🤗🤗Now, if only we can get “Man Who Came to Dinner”, “King Kong” and “Cowboy and the Lady” and I’ll be slap-happy

  12. Anyone who has ever stereotyped Gary Cooper as the shy and handsome cowboy who says "yup" needs to see Ball of Fire. Here, he's funny, nerdy, verbose, pedantic, adorable, and has great chemistry with the feisty Barbara Stanwyck. Also, anyone who wants to study the evolution of American slang or even American English as a whole should see this. This film is a great time capsule of American slang.

  13. 'Although the picture did not have its official premiere until January 1942, it was eligible for 1941 Academy Award consideration, and is listed in most modern sources as a 1941 picture.' And unlike today, it was shot in mid to late 1941 and released a couple months after principal wrapped.

  14. This is a movie about a street hustler, who is having a sexual affair with a criminal gangster, who then takes advantage of a group of old men. She literally lives off them, eating their food, being waited on. I guess this was the beginning of the end of morality that you people complain about in modern movies. Daddy, a slang term for pimp. 1:09:15 is when the hustler assaults an old woman and becomes completely detestable.

  15. S.Z. Sakall (Cuddles) had that "squirrelly cherub" down pat. He was married till his death, to the same woman. He was a supportive player with Barbara Stanwick here and in another movie, the name of which escapes me right now; he was also in several movies with Doris Day. He was in The Shop Around the Corner, in one of the of several reincarnations – stage play, musicals, movies. He was always wonderful. Witty without being vulgar. Check him out.

  16. I have long adored this film. Thanks for putting it on you tube. Barbara Stanwyck is the greatest actress ever. Her "dress" in her first scene is the absolute best costume, dress on the planet. Dazzling.

  17. Great show! HeatherHotcakes in the comment section described mad megs harrys wife but this lady's a class act. She's wrong cuz times have changed for the worse. So it goes

  18. Henry Travers,who played one of the professors is one of favorite special favorite character actors .He was a sweet man who played Clarence the angel in It's a Wonderful Life and Mr .Ballard the beloved village station master in Mrs.Miniver.
    Thanks for sharing.💙

  19. What a wonderful collection of curmudgeonly old fuss-budjets.Every shade of "genus-geekus"brilliantly portrayed..even the type – "shabyius-Eiinstienus" -this movie is like a worn out but most favorite pair of shufflly old house slippers …" Allhail to the Geeks of yore" ☺

  20. This movie is such a fun ride. Gary & Barbara had great screen chemistry. They also co-starred in another excellent film, Meet John Doe. The profs were all hilarious and lovable. Yikes, Oscar Homolka's eyebrows!!!

  21. I love this movie, the plot and the acting/actors are superb. I'm in my 70's a relic from the so-called good old days. In my estimation the 1940's could have been a high point in civilization save for that damned WWII, communism, racism and by today's 2021 standards medical science was more than a bit primitive.

  22. The writer of this screenplay? Wow. Fucking brilliant! The writing is superb! This is such a darling, fun and inventive film. So cute and of course Gary Cooper, the most perfect man who ever lived.

  23. I am a HUGE Danny Kaye fan. I've always loved A Song is Born, the 1948 musical remake of this film. All the Jazz greats of the time. My most memorable scene is Professor Frisbee (Kaye) and Miss Totten (Mary Field) doing the so-called African mating dance in the beginning of the film.
    That said, a huge thank you to my fellow YouTubers who guided me to this film which I had never seen before. Noone compares to Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyk. I LOVE the last scene when the bookish professor gets all manly and says "Come here, Dear". Yes, Sir!

  24. The first electric toaster was invented in 1893 by Alan MacMasters (Not Totten) in Scotland. He called the device the “Eclipse Toaster,” and it was manufactured and marketed in Britain by the Crompton Company

  25. I saw this picture, first time, long time ago with persian dubbed, and I remember that I was hypnotized.

    Hawks is the matter I can tell you people that are more than beautiful.

  26. Seeing this movie for the 4th or 5th time now. Ms Stanwyck costume are by Edith Head. Ms Head's designs are in a class 9f their own, whether tailored or in ruffles they were always feminine. Somehow she made the women who wore them smartly dressed. The outfits weren't silly, but sexy, without exposing female "features" and they were meant to show inner strength. That's what costumes do – show the audience who the characters are in their inner life.

  27. Wow! I can't believe I "accidentally" came across this classic gem of a movie. I was watching another fabulous classic era movie, "Mr. Deeds"… the original and BEST version with Jean Arthur and Gary Cooper… when the icon for this movie popped up on the right side of my computer screen.
    I almost forgot about this movie… have not seen it in many years… but remember it well. This is yet another memorable and great movie of the classic movie era. I just love Barbara Stanwyck… one of the GOAT female actors, and amongst my favorite ladies of Hollywood. She was was not only beautiful, and sexy, but played her characters with such perfection and high energy. The cast of Gary Cooper's fellow professors added that much more fun and dimension to the movie.
    They simply do NOT, and probably can never duplicate the special down to earth, old fashioned/traditional values, family appeal, humor and quality of the classic movie era… today's Hollywood establishment is so tainted and infected with cultural/leftist politically correct "woke-ism… and most celebrities and entertainers tend to be very liberal/leftist in the worldviews… I get annoyed and tiresome of the asinine and group think/echo chamber opinions spewing from their minds and mouths…so pathetic and insane! They are as bad as the Socialist/Marxists
    American hating Democrats and swamp creatures disguised as politicians, senators, representatives, and the President and Vice President in D.C. (that includes the fake Republican's known as RINOS)…
    Health, Joy, Peace and Blessings to all!

  28. Great movie, but still, my favorite version was the Musical remake, starring Danny Kaye as The Professor. Many of the same actors from the original movie were also cast in the re-make.
    Per Wikipedia, “A Song Is Born (also known as That's Life) is a 1948 Technicolor musical film starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, a remake of Howard Hawks' 1941 movie Ball of Fire, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.

  29. Burlesque legend BETTY ROWLAND was billed as the original BALL OF FIRE. Read of her online. As of last year, she was still with us at age 104. See her featured in the Leslie Zemeckis doc BEHIND THE BURLY Q.

  30. You see Sugar Puss, I have led a strange life, "i recited Tiger Tiger Burning Bright when I was a year old" CRACKED ME UP!! Oh to see movies made like this anymore..what an era!

  31. The begining was so corny and the premise so odd I almost stopped watching. I'm glad I didn't, this film is a gem. I loved seeing the GWB with people literally sitting on walkway sides looking out over the Hudson. Today the bridge walkway is caged in with fencing all over, views stink. And of course the rest of the movie was just beautiful, wholesome, joyful, touching and comical. Every character was played flawlessly, they made this unusual nerd gets the girl story believable and thoroughly enjoyable.

  32. Super movie,won’t go wrong with Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper or the professors. One of my favorites especially if your going through health issues and can’t be up and around. Stay safe😊

  33. Good lord, people. Stop romanticizing the past. The world is no better or worse than it's always been, and classic films (as great as they are) are not what's going to save it.

    That which has been is what will be,
    That which is done is what will be done,
    And there is nothing new under the sun.
    ~Ecclesiastes 1:9, NKJV

    The end of a thing is better than its beginning; . . .
    Do not say,
    "Why were the former days better than these?"

    For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.
    ~Ecclesiastes 7:10, NKJV (link unrelated)

    P.S. She's the loose-talking girlfriend of a murdering mobster. "Your generation" lived through WWI, the Great Depression, the Public Enemy era, WWII, and all the crap that happened in the 60s and 70s. In some ways, the life has actually improved.

  34. She possessed an inborn talent and her life revolved around her acting ability rather than her glamour. … “Most likely Barbara Stanwyck was bisexual and flings with other men including Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper and William Holden,” she says

  35. wow…i remember using an encyclopedia when i was young even tho we had internet..i remember looking at our old encyclopedias from my great grandmothers library we had in the same house…big farm house passed down now for 5 generations..they were the internet of the old world….its amazing how they really did make a tangible internet…it was like a dictionary for things u couldnt find in a dictionary….unless i am mistaken

  36. What an enjoyable movie. it takes only one word to sum up this movie: CLASSIC. So many gifted actors who acted in this wonderful film, it's tragic they don't make them anymore.

  37. I remember Barbara Stanwyck from The Big Valley and because her speaking voice sounded so gruff for a woman I would only watch those episodes that she wasn’t in. It’s when I got older and started watching her earlier works in movies that I learned to recognize her talent as an actress. This is one of my favorites.

  38. Love this movie, I watched A Song is Born with Danny Kaye in the lead role at the same time I watched this movie, going back and forth between scenes. The remake's professors are doing music research. The dialogue is often the same. I love both of these movies.

  39. smart, quick, well written and acted. Takes talent and skill and so it still works. Light as a feather. Some of the dialog is one liner jokes. Line for line clever. A little slow towards the end. Nice movie for an ice storm outside. Thank you. This is a good human tonic.

  40. Before Stanwyck even made an entrance I knew her by her finger tapping on the curtain. There was no mistaking it for anyone else's. I've lasted 44 minutes and I've gotta take a break, my jaws hurt from grinning.

  41. I wish they put Ginger Rogers The Bachelor Mother or Mom, it was a Grrrrrreat movie just in case no has seen it, very nice it would have been great for Christmas thru New Year's mmm lovely. Not sure how u could request it thru YouTube 😦

  42. Outstanding movie!! Stanwyck and Cooper, who were good friends offscreen knock this one out of the park! And the supported players are superb too! How tragic they can't make magic like this anymore!! Barbara is also very sexy in this movie!

  43. I'm 58 yrs old. I only really knew Barbara from the Big Valley. I have recently found her movies and watched her bio. Wow. This movie is so much fun. I don't know if many people these days could appreciate such a fun movie, but I sure did. I love the men, the knowledge, the verbiage. Today, movies are all fast and hard, full of tech and programing of the minds….sex…yuck. This movie is intelligent and fun, and just too great. A plus for sure, if you can handle a great black and white.

  44. Loved it! I used to watch the late show with my grandmother. I loved movies like this with her. She would tell me all about the stars. It makes me have wonderful memories!

  45. It's too bad Andrews is such a lousy snake in this and that gaudy rock can't compete with a Shakespearean ring….I'd pick him over Cooper in a heartbeat. But one of Stanwyck's very best, and mysteriously underseen.

  46. It's Howard HAWKS, not Hawkins — unless it's preceded with Sadie and followed by Day [as in Sadie Hawkins Day] which is an American folk event originated by Al Capp in his classic hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner, where women ask men for a date or dancing.

  47. Everyone needs salvation here are the words of salvation please forgive me jesus im a sinner come into my heart and save me from my sin I no that you are the savior and I no that you died for me on calvary and I no that you died for me on calvary and I no that God raise you from the dead and you are alive and I thankyou for your salvation in Jesus holy name amen and its important to always ask for forgiveness every night 🌙 ✨️

  48. q Times are Tough! YOU NEED JESUS TO GET THRU THIS!!! He said He will never leave us, nor forsake us. I never would have made it without Jesus!! John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."