Ball of Fire (1941)





A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.


Vintage magazines

2 films complets 13, 01-10 1948

Books with substantial mentioning of Ball of Fire

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Duane Byrge, Robert Milton Miller
The Screwball Comedy Films, A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Homer Dickens
The Films of Gary Cooper
Secaucus, NJ, 1970

Books with an entry on Ball of Fire

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969