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Bola de fuego

Título original: Ball of Fire
  • 1941
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  • 1h 51min
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Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Bola de fuego (1941)
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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Un grupo de profesores que trabaja en una nueva enciclopedia se encuentra con una cantante de club nocturno, buscada por la policía para ayudar a atrapar a su amante quien es el jefe de la m... Leer todoUn grupo de profesores que trabaja en una nueva enciclopedia se encuentra con una cantante de club nocturno, buscada por la policía para ayudar a atrapar a su amante quien es el jefe de la mafia.Un grupo de profesores que trabaja en una nueva enciclopedia se encuentra con una cantante de club nocturno, buscada por la policía para ayudar a atrapar a su amante quien es el jefe de la mafia.

  • Dirección
    • Howard Hawks
  • Guionistas
    • Charles Brackett
    • Billy Wilder
    • Thomas Monroe
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    • Gary Cooper
    • Barbara Stanwyck
    • Oscar Homolka
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Howard Hawks
    • Guionistas
      • Charles Brackett
      • Billy Wilder
      • Thomas Monroe
    • Elenco
      • Gary Cooper
      • Barbara Stanwyck
      • Oscar Homolka
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    • 78Metascore
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    • Nominado a 4 premios Óscar
      • 4 premios ganados y 4 nominaciones en total

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    Gary Cooper
    Gary Cooper
    • Prof. Bertram Potts
    Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck
    • Sugarpuss O'Shea
    Oscar Homolka
    Oscar Homolka
    • Prof. Gurkakoff
    Henry Travers
    Henry Travers
    • Prof. Jerome
    S.Z. Sakall
    S.Z. Sakall
    • Prof. Magenbruch
    Tully Marshall
    Tully Marshall
    • Prof. Robinson
    Leonid Kinskey
    Leonid Kinskey
    • Prof. Quintana
    Richard Haydn
    Richard Haydn
    • Prof. Oddly
    Aubrey Mather
    Aubrey Mather
    • Prof. Peagram
    Allen Jenkins
    Allen Jenkins
    • Garbage Man
    Dana Andrews
    Dana Andrews
    • Joe Lilac
    Dan Duryea
    Dan Duryea
    • Duke Pastrami
    Ralph Peters
    Ralph Peters
    • Asthma Anderson
    Kathleen Howard
    Kathleen Howard
    • Miss Bragg
    Mary Field
    Mary Field
    • Miss Totten
    Charles Lane
    Charles Lane
    • Larsen
    Charles Arnt
    Charles Arnt
    • McNeary
    Elisha Cook Jr.
    Elisha Cook Jr.
    • Waiter
    • (as Elisha Cook)
    • Dirección
      • Howard Hawks
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      • Charles Brackett
      • Billy Wilder
      • Thomas Monroe
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    8llltdesq

    One of Barbara Stanwyck's best performances in a very funny film and role

    This film (remade in 1948 as a musical with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo with the title, "A Song Is Born") is a hilarious vehicle for Barbara Stanwyck, who was nominated for Best Actress for her performance here. Anyone who has only seen Ms. Stanwyck in film noir such as "Double Indemnity" or in television's Big Valley should watch this or "Christmas In Connecticut" to see a fine comedic talent at work. She blows Gary Cooper off the screen! Most Recommended.
    9bkoganbing

    "Oh, Potsie"

    1941 may very well have been Gary Cooper's career year. His film performances that year are among his best, the Oscar winning Sergeant York, Frank Capra's classic Meet John Doe, and this sparking comedy Ball of Fire. However it was Barbara Stanwyck who snagged an Oscar nomination for this film with her portrayal of sassy nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea. Stanwyck lost however to Joan Fontaine in Suspicion.

    A whole lot of talent went into the making of this film besides the two leads. Howard Hawks worked from a script by Billy Wilder and his writing partner, Charles Brackett. And Hawks put together a superb list of supporting players including seven of our finest character actors to be Cooper's professorial colleagues, Henry Travers, Leonid Kinskey, Aubrey Mather, Oscar Homolka, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall and making his film debut, Richard Haydn.

    These eight cloistered academicians are working off a grant to create some kind of ultimate encyclopedia. Cooper's specialty is the English language. A garbageman played by Allen Jenkins awakens him to a whole generation of new slang terms he hasn't heard. Cooper ventures out into the world and meets a variety of people and hears a whole batch of new expressions. His wanderings take him to a nightclub where he hears Stanwyck singing with Gene Krupa's band.

    Stanwyck's just filled with all the new hep jive talk, but she's also ducking a grand jury subpoena to testify against her boy friend, gangster Dana Andrews. She decides a good place to hide might just be the house where all these professors are quartered.

    It's quite a mismatch, scholarly and shy Cooper and brazen Stanwyck, In fact Hawks modeled Cooper's Bertram Potts on the character Cary Grant played in Bringing Up Baby which Hawks also directed. Cooper was as successful as Grant in breaking his stereotype though he never quite got the physical comedy down the way Cary did.

    Still Ball of Fire is a great big ball of amusement. I'm surprised there hasn't been a remake of this recently. Danny Kaye did a remake called A Song Is Born later in the decade with Kaye being a music professor instead. But I can see the possibilities of a remake here with this group of academicians putting together a Wikipedia like encyclopedia or even an ultimate search engine for the internet like Google.
    8metal-dad

    Raises Some Question

    How in hell have I never seen this film before or even been aware of it? How did I forget just how freaking hot Barbara Stanwyck was back in the day?Why can't Hollywood make movies this smart, funny, and good these days? Even though it's been displayed in other films like "Mr Deeds Goes to Town," how did Gary Cooper's comedic abilities surprise me in this one?

    This is a very enjoyable film. It's got snappy, funny dialogue and while the premise requires suspension of belief it's not so far-fetched as to prevent enjoyment.

    While there are film noir qualities it is more in line with the screwball comedies of the period. Big plus for featuring Gene Krupa and Roy Eldridge in the nightclub scene.

    Highly recommended.
    9Quinoa1984

    and featuring Gene Krupa and his orchestra!

    Ball of Fire is a real 'screwball' comedy, and it being directed by Howard Hawks, who made arguably the best one of all (His Girl Friday), ups the stakes just a bit. Not only that, but it was one of Billy Wilder's first projects on a screenplay, and his sharp wit comes through in almost every scene that needs it. And more than that, when the movie needs to be romantic, without any frills, it really is. At the center of the craziness that becomes the story (mostly towards the end and early on and a little in the middle) is a story that we know is formulaic- that a woman who is already attached (if not quite yet hitched) to someone else falls into an unlikely situation with another man and the two suddenly become really close, the man first and then the woman- but its the chemistry between a sexy pre-Double Indemnity Barbara Stanwyck with conservative Gary Cooper.

    If, ultimately, it doesn't have the machine-gun energy of His Girl Friday (then again, few movies do), it makes up for it with a fun premise that Hawks and Wilder ride out logically, as far as comedy premises can go. It's about seven professors and their leader professor, played by Cooper, who for years have been writing an encyclopedia and are coming close to the end... except for a snag - slang words. The old guys and intellectuals haven't a clue as to what words like "Boogie" and "sugar-puss" mean, until they get a few people off the street to tell them. That, and a nightclub singer (Stanwyck) on the run from the cops after she gets unwittingly (and unfairly) mixed up in a murder plot with her fiancée. So, she shacks up with Cooper and his fellow profs, and it becomes Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with the twist that the girl this time is a lot more wily (and tempting) while the men are... old professor types who know almost everything except the human heart.

    But Hawks makes twist on his own premise as he goes along, too. We see the natural progression of the plot, of Cooper quickly falling in love with Stanwyck's advances (all fake at first just so she can stay at the house), and then little by little she falls for him too, or at least feels so guilty about what she's doing to see the old geezers as real people instead of obstacles. There are a few key scenes that break the mold of the comedic antics (some of which, like Stanwyck showing the old men how to dance is hilarious and memorable): one is the bachelor dinner between the professors, when the one professor, played by Richard Haydn, talks about his marriage from many years before, and it becomes genuinely tender and sincere, not played for laughs, certainly not when they're all singing the song Gienevive. The other scene is when Cooper walks into the wrong room (thinking it's a professor and not his future wife) and asks for advice about what to do, as he loves her and isn't sure about himself. It's all shot in dark, with a few specific lighting touches, and it's about perfect.

    The ensemble is entertaining- from the old men with their various (sometimes interchangeable) personalities, to the film-noir knockoffs playing the henchmen of Joe Lilac- and there are many lines and moments that, upon a repeat viewing, should become even quotable. It could be said that it's slightly dated in some of its approach to tradition vs. the titillating, but it never loses its sense of humor, all the way up to the climax. Oh, and it also happens to feature one of the best nightclub music scenes in the movies, with Gene Krupa and his band doing "Drum Boogie", first in its usual form (a fantastic drum solo at the end), and then a variation on it with Krupa performing the song in a huddle of people with matchsticks on a matchbox. A small masterpiece of music in the middle of very good romantic comedy.
    boris-26

    Ball of fun.

    Basically, this is a gangster version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Here "Snow White" is a night club singer faultlessly played by Barbara Stanwyck. The "evil witch" is the local police, out to haul her in because of tie-in to a gangster (Dana Andrews) The magic forest of course, is New York. The seven dwarfs are a group of introverted professors led by bookworm Gary Cooper.

    The film ahs a wonderful screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. (Sample dialog COP: How do you find a needle in a haystack? GANGSTER: Simple. Feed the hay to a horse, and X-Ray the horse.) Directed with zip by the great Howard Hawks.

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    • Trivia
      Kathleen Howard was left with a fractured jaw when the punch that Barbara Stanwyck threw accidentally made contact. Stanwyck was reportedly mortified by the incident.
    • Errores
      A cop on the Washington bridge checkpoint says that a professor's driving license was issued in 1903. Driving licenses have existed in the USA only since 1910.
    • Citas

      Sugarpuss O'Shea: [needing help with a stubborn zipper] You know, I had this happen one night in the middle of my act. I couldn't get a thing off. Was I embarrassed!

    • Créditos curiosos
      Opening credits prologue: Once upon a time - in 1941 to be exact - there lived in a great, tall forest - called New York - eight men who were writing an encyclopedia.

      They were so wise they knew everything: the depth of the oceans, and what makes a glowworm glow, and what tune Nero fiddles while Rome was burning.

      But there was one thing about which they knew very little - as you will see . . .
    • Conexiones
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Sweet Genevieve
      (1869) (uncredited)

      Music by Henry Tucker

      Lyrics by George Cooper

      Performed a cappella by the professors

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 1 de abril de 1942 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitios oficiales
      • Streaming on "cipherTV" YouTube Channel
      • Streaming on "Classic Hollywood Masterpieces" YouTube Channel
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      • Ball of Fire
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Samuel Goldwyn Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
    • Productora
      • Samuel Goldwyn Productions
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      1 hora 51 minutos
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      • Black and White
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