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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:Ball_of_Fire_movie_poster.jpg\|frame]] A'''''Ball of Fire''''' is a 1941 screwball comedy film about eight professors who are trying to compile the world's largest encyclopedia. Realizing his books on slang are out of date, English Professor Bertram Potts ([[Gary Cooper]]) leaves the communal library/house where they work to find research material. There he meets burlesque dancer Sugarpuss O'Shea ([[Barbara Stanwyck]]), who needs a place to hide from the cops so she can't testify against her boyfriend: mobster Joe Lilac ([[Dana Andrews]]). She stays with Potts and uses his affection of her to her advantage. Naturally, she [[In Love with the Mark\|falls in love with the mark]] and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. From a script by prolific Hollywood writer [[Billy Wilder]] and directed by [[Howard Hawks]] with a score by [[Alfred Newman]]. Nominated for three [[Academy ~~Awards~~Award]]s, including best actress and best story. Named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2016.▼ ▲From a script by prolific Hollywood writer [[Billy Wilder]] and directed by [[Howard Hawks]] with a score by [[Alfred Newman]]. Nominated for three [[Academy Awards]], including best actress and best story. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Adorkable]]: Bertram [[Up to Eleven]]. * [[Badass Bookworm]]: the professors and Bertram, when it comes time [[Took a Level Inin Badass\|to take a step up]]. * [[Burlesque]]: If they ever remake this film Sugarpuss will probably be a stripper. * [[Camp Straight]]: Professor Oddly is a rather mannered and slightly effeminate old gentleman (presumably due to having come of age in a more formal era), but he's the only one of the professors to have any previous romantic experience with women. * [[Expy]]: The other seven professors for [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)\|the seven dwarfs]]. * [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Even in heels, Sugarpuss needs to stand on a couple of reference books to kiss Bertram. It's ''very'' obvious on the theatrical lobby poster which serves as the page image. * [[More Dakka]]: The gangsters' machine guns. * [[Oblivious to Love]]: Bertram at first. Line 17 ⟶ 18: * [[Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace]]: While these exact words aren't said, Bertram and his friends do have to break up Lilac's wedding in the climax. * [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' might qualify, despite premiering [[Setting Update\|66 years after the film.]] ** Also the 1983 [[Dan Aykroyd]] comedy ''[[~~Film/Doctor Detroit\|~~Doctor Detroit]]'', about a nerdy professor getting involved with prostitutes. * [[Totally Radical]]: It's a deliberate attempt to avert the 1941 version of this trope that sends Bertram Potts out into the real world. {{reflist}} {{AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Screwball Comedy]] [[Category:Films of the 1940s]] [[Category:The Forties]] [[Category:~~Ball~~National ofFilm ~~Fire~~Registry]]