Directed by:
Howard HawksCinematography:
Gregg TolandComposer:
Alfred NewmanCast:
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Richard Haydn, Aubrey Mather, Allen Jenkins, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea (more)VOD (4)
Plots(1)
Bertram Potts is a young grammarian who lives with a zany group of professors while compiling an encyclopedia. He is pulled out of his world of rigid wording when he decides to document modern slang. One night he meets a local burlesque dancer, Sugarpuss O'Shea, who agrees to enlighten the scholars. As she grows closer to the professors (especially Bertram), their lives are thrown for a loop when her mobster boyfriend shows up. (Miramax Films)
(more)Cast
![Pat Flaherty](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000248_6efdc2.jpg)
Pat Flaherty
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
![Bert Stevens](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/256/159256255_85bf54.jpg)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Will Lee
Best movies:
Ball of Fire (1941)
Little Fugitive (1953)
Playing for Time (1980) (TV movie)
![Mary Field](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/223/160223101_ee4008.jpg)
Mary Field
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
![Russell Wade](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/388/160388611_7e2e4a.jpg)
Russell Wade
USA
Best movies:
Ball of Fire (1941)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Vivacious Lady (1938)
Chalky Williams
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
East of Eden (1955)
![Leonid Kinskey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/506/160506623_e92952.gif)
Leonid Kinskey
Russia
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
![Otto Hoffman](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/566/160566265_f21065.jpg)
Otto Hoffman
USA
Best movies:
Ball of Fire (1941)
Texas (1941)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
![Eddy Chandler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/769/160769473_2d999d.jpg)
Eddy Chandler
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Eddie Foster
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
The General (1926)
White Heat (1949)
Edward Clark
Russia
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
East of Eden (1955)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Pat West
USA
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Francis Sayles
USA
Best movies:
Citizen Kane (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Ethelreda Leopold
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
All About Eve (1950)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Aldrich Bowker
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)