Floozy Outwits Seven Professors: Commentary on Ball of Fire (1941 film)

Film Society of Screwball Comedy (FSOSC.org) founder Aliece Pickett & Lauren Wolfer discuss the brilliant satire of out-of-touch professors in the Screwball Comedy Ball of Fire (1941 film). And Barbara Stanwyck’s sexy performance with Gary Cooper under the direction of Howard Hawks, and the hilarious script written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.
Sources:
“It’s The Pictures That Got Small”, Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder (Columbia, 2015).
“You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet”: The American Talking Film, by Andrew Sarris (Oxford, 1998).
Howard Hawks, by Todd McCarthy (Grove Press 1997).
Billy Wilder, Dancing on the Edge, by Joseph McBride (Columbia, 2021).
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck, Steel-True, by Victoria Wilson (Simon & Schuster, 2013).
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby” (1928) Jimmy McHugh (music), Dorothy Fields (lyrics); performed by Vaughn De Leath (1928)
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