“Ball of Fire” quotes
(1941)
Howard Hawks
directed this movie
in 1941
Title Ball of Fire
Year 1941
Director Howard Hawks
Genre Comedy, Romance
Year 1941
Director Howard Hawks
Genre Comedy, Romance
Plot – A group of old professors and a young philologist are writing a great encyclopedia. When they discover the current spoken language has evolved differently, they decide to "update" themselves. To learn the slang language, the philologist dates a starlet.
All actors – Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Leonid Kinskey, Richard Haydn, Aubrey Mather, Allen Jenkins, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Ralph Peters, Kathleen Howard, Mary Field, Charles Lane, Charles Arnt, Elisha Cook Jr., Alan Rhein, Eddie Foster, Aldrich Bowker, Addison Richards, Pat West, Kenneth Howell, Tommy Ryan, Tim Ryan, Will Lee, Gene Krupa and His Orchestra, Roy Eldridge, Gene Krupa, Hal McIntyre, George Barton, Doria Caron, Eddy Chandler, Ken Christy, Edward Clark, Chet De Vito, Geraldine Fissette, Pat Flaherty, Catherine Henderson, Otto Hoffman, June Horne, Merrillee Lannon, Ethelreda Leopold, Lorraine Miller, Mildred Morris, Edward Mundy, Gerald Pierce, Francis Sayles, Helen Seamon, George Sherwood, Walter Shumway, Bert Stevens, Russell Wade, Oscar Chalkee Williams
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“That is the kind of woman that makes whole civilizations topple!”
“I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”
“Father had just one reason for ever starting this unfortunate enterprise: vanity.”
“The subconscious never makes a mistake. She gave you the ring she didn't want - his ring - and she kept the one she wanted - yours.”
“He broke a blood vessel because he found his name was omitted from the Encyclopedia of Britannica, because thirty pages were devoted to Thomas Alva Edison, seventeen to Alexander Graham Bell, but not one line to Daniel S. Totten, the inventor of the electric toaster.”
“I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. Looks like a giraffe, and I love him. I love him because he's the kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. Love him because he doesn't know how to kiss.”
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