Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire is a 1941 comedy film about an attractive nightclub singer who lands herself in a den of professors while trying to hide from the police to avoid testifying against her mobster boyfriend.

Directed by Howard Hawks. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.

Sugarpuss O'Shea

• I love him because he's a kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk.

• [about the professors' workroom] Say, who decorated this place? The mug that shot Lincoln?

• Who is that guy who learned so much from watching an apple drop?

Professor Bertram Potts

• [to Sugarpuss] I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

Cast

• Barbara Stanwyck — Catherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea
• Gary Cooper — Professor Bertram Potts