Ball of Fire

Howard Hawks (director)
Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett (screenwriters)
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Dana Andrews, Oskar Homolka (starring)

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Vintage keybook photograph from the 1941 film, showing actors Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, and Richard Haydn. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of the Advertising Advisory Council dated NOV 13 1941.

A group of bachelor professors living together in a New York brownstone have worked for years on a massive encyclopedia of all human knowledge, but find their research disrupted by the arrival of a vivacious nightclub performer (Stanwyck), who needs a place to hide from the police.

Set in New York.

9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine, lightly edgeworn.

National Film Registry. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.


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