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Ball of Fire

film by Hawks [1941]

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Billy Wilder
Early life and work
>Ball of Fire (1941). Arguably Wilder’s most personal work during this period was Leisen’s Hold Back the Dawn (1941), a compelling drama about a suave European refugee (played by Charles Boyer) stranded in Mexico who uses his wiles to entice an American schoolteacher (Olivia de…
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>Ball of Fire (1941). Arguably Wilder’s most personal work during this period was Leisen’s Hold Back the Dawn (1941), a compelling drama about a suave European refugee (played by Charles Boyer) stranded in Mexico who uses his wiles to entice an American schoolteacher (Olivia de…
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Howard Hawks
Films of the 1940s
Ball of Fire (1941), written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, was a well-conceived romantic comedy centred on Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The patriotic Air Force (1943) transposed Hawks’s Air Corps experience and men-at-work ethos to World War II, with John Garfield, Gig Young,
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Ball of Fire (1941), written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, was a well-conceived romantic comedy centred on Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The patriotic Air Force (1943) transposed Hawks’s Air Corps experience and men-at-work ethos to World War II, with John Garfield, Gig Young,
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Barbara Stanwyck
…Sugarpuss O’Shea in the comedy Ball of Fire (1941). She was also nominated for her portrayals of a femme fatale in the noir thriller Double Indemnity (1944) and of a bedridden woman who discovers a murder plot in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). Although she never won a competitive Oscar, she…
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…Sugarpuss O’Shea in the comedy Ball of Fire (1941). She was also nominated for her portrayals of a femme fatale in the noir thriller Double Indemnity (1944) and of a bedridden woman who discovers a murder plot in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). Although she never won a competitive Oscar, she…
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