80 years after its release Billy Wilder's Ball of Fire remains resolutely undimmed. chlopinions' appreciation:
Billy Wilder had been in Hollywood for almost a decade, and he had had enough. Although he’d scribed a steady string of successful movies, often with writing partner Charles Brackett, directors still found it all too easy to tamper with his screenplays. His major nemesis in that regard was Mitchell Leisen, for whom he wrote three films between 1939 and 1941, as their relationship frayed ever further.
for years after, and it was during that movie’s troubled production that he made a big decision: If he was going to continue writing screenplays, he needed to be in the director’s chair., but he had one last project on his docket first:, which he would co-write with Brackett and Thomas Monroe, and would be directed by Howard Hawks. Wilder’s bad experiences with some directors had not poisoned the well for him completely, and he found it easy to work with Hawks.
Bertram’s seven colleagues are just as enchanted with Sugarpuss as Bertram, and indeed a large part of’s humor comes from the juxtaposition of the six foot three, forty-year-old Gary Cooper trooping around with seven men who appear a foot shorter and at least 20 years older. The other professors form a cuddly backing group to the romance between Bertram and Sugarpuss: Thrilled by the romance, and excited to be close to such a dazzling dame.
Stanwyck spent 40 years dazzling in her Hollywood movies, but she was rarely as radiant as in her opening scenes in
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