Ball of Fire (also known as
The Professor and the Burlesque Queen) is a
1941 comedy film about a group of erudite professorial
encyclopedists and their encounter with a nightclub performer. The film stars
Gary Cooper,
Barbara Stanwyck,
Oskar Homolka,
Henry Travers,
Richard Haydn,
Dana Andrews,
Dan Duryea and
Elisha Cook Jr..