Ball of Fire
““I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss—THE JERK!””
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Crime
Studio
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How Ball of Fire performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$2.6M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$380K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Professor Bertram Potts
Gary Cooper
Professor Bertram Potts
Sugarpuss O’Shea
Barbara Stanwyck
Sugarpuss O’Shea
Prof. Gurkakoff
Oskar Homolka
Prof. Gurkakoff
Prof. Jerome
Henry Travers
Prof. Jerome
Prof. Magenbruch
S.Z. Sakall
Prof. Magenbruch
Prof. Robinson
Tully Marshall
Prof. Robinson
Prof. Quintana
Leonid Kinskey
Prof. Quintana
Prof. Oddly
Richard Haydn
Prof. Oddly
Prof. Peagram
Aubrey Mather
Prof. Peagram
Garbage Man
Allen Jenkins
Garbage Man
Joe Lilac
Dana Andrews
Joe Lilac
Duke Pastrami
Dan Duryea
Duke Pastrami
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