Movie picture
Movie picture

Ball of Fire

1941 1h 51m

7.3 / 10

221 votes

  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Crime

Overview

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.