Ball of Fire 1941 DVD - Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck

A group of young ivory-tower lexicographers realise they need to hear how real people talk for their research. They end up saving a nightclub performer from the police and her boyfriend, a mob boss.

Cast:

Gary Cooper as Professor Bertram Potts, English and grammar
Barbara Stanwyck as Katherine "Sugarpuss" O'Shea
Dana Andrews as Joe Lilac
Oskar Homolka as Professor Gurkakoff, Sciences
Henry Travers as Professor Jerome, Geographer
S.Z. Sakall as Professor Magenbruch, Physiology
Tully Marshall as Professor Robinson, Law
Leonid Kinskey as Professor Quintana, Philosophy
Richard Haydn as Professor Oddley, Botany
Aubrey Mather as Professor Peagram, History
Allen Jenkins as the garbage man (one of the slang users)
Dan Duryea as Duke Pastrami, one of Lilac's henchmen
Ralph Peters as Asthma Anderson, the other henchman
Kathleen Howard as Miss Bragg, the housekeeper
Mary Field as Miss Totten, the financial backer
Charles Lane as Larsen, Miss Totten's assistant
Aldrich Bowker as Justice of the Peace
Charles Arnt as McNeary, Lilac's lawyer
Addison Richards as the district attorney
Elisha Cook Jr. as a nightclub waiter
Pat West as a bum (one of the slang users)
Kenneth Howell as a College boy (one of the slang users)
Tommy Ryan as a newsboy (one of the slang users)
Will Lee as Benny the Creep
Tim Ryan as motorcycle policeman
Gene Krupa and his orchestra as themselves

Runtime: 111 Minutes