Ball of Fire Page #3

Synopsis: Sexy, wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice: mobster boyfriend Joe Lilac is suspected of murder and Sugarpuss' testimony could put him away. Naive Professor Bertram Potts meets Miss O'Shea while researching an article on slang and in true romantic comedy fashion the two worlds collide. When Miss O'Shea hides out with Potts and his fellow professors, everyone learns something new: the professors how to cha-cha and Potts the meaning of "yum-yum"!
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
APPROVED
Year:
1941
111 min
1,427 Views


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Mr. Totten shall receive

an appropriate amount of space.

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- Oh, yes, yes.

- Yes, of course.

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- Three quarters of a page, I should think.

- Three quarters of a page?

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- That's all he deserves.

- Is it?

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You may go on, Mr. Larsen.

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All we ask is

that you bring this thing to a close

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somehow or the other.

Get on with it. Slap it together.

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Mr. Larsen, may I have a word?

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- Hello, Professor Potts.

- Hello, Miss Totten.

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Mr. Larsen, you said, "Slap it together."

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We're not the slapping together kind.

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We have started an encyclopedia,

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and we shall finish it

as thoroughly as is humanly possible.

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- Another $100,000?

- Lf necessary, yes.

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If our work goes slowly

it's because the world, it goes so fast.

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Take Professor Jerome, our geographer.

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He has to rewrite all the time.

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- And Dr. Magenbruch...

- LARSEN:
I'm not interested.

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Don't interrupt, Mr. Larsen.

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Go on, Professor.

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I'm sure it's your wish that this monument

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to your father be finished

as nobly as it was begun.

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I'm appealing to you, Miss Totten,

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to your vision and to your heart.

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Maybe I'm a little inarticulate,

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but I've always regarded you as a...

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Yes, Professor?

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Always regarded you as a...

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(EX CLAIMING)

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Oh, Professor.

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- You know what I mean, Miss Totten.

- Yes.

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I warn you, Miss Totten,

another four years of this, with...

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After all, it was Father's wish.

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But, gentlemen, you will hurry

and finish the encyclopedia, won't you?

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- We will.

- Yes, yes, indeed.

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Charles Brackett

Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his long collaboration with Billy Wilder. more…

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