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Actor Cooper plays his Mr. Deeds role with the authority of long familiarity, and Miss Stanwyck (once Ruby Stevens, of Brooklyn) is equally at home in hers.
Casting is meticulously perfect to make every character a caricature of itself.
Mr. Cooper may be a little loose-tooth in spots, but he gives a homespun performance such as only he can give. Miss Stanwyck is plenty yum-yum (meaning scorchy) in her worldly temptress role.
'I've gone goofy, completely goofy,' Cooper says, as the chaos of slang overwhelms his orderly vocabulary: 'Bim-buggy, slap-happy.' Watching 'Ball of Fire,' you feel similarly liberated.
One of the best screwball comedies.
As the timid professor and burlesque stripper, Cooper and Stanwyck are at the top of their form in Hawks' delectable screwball comedy, based on a witty script from Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
You'd have to go to Barbara Billingsley for another jive session this enjoyable.
After the rush of His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire is a more sedate ride, full of such marvelous passages as the conga line Stanwyck's delectable Sugarpuss teaches the professors.
Does a fine job subverting the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs children's story.
What a team: Stanwyck was rarely sexier, Cooper never more endearing. A jewel of a comedy.
Co-escrito por Billy Wilder e Charles Brackett, o filme tem um ótimo senso de humor, performances hilárias de todo o elenco e direção enérgica de Hawks.
Cooper and Stanwyck make an attractive pairing in Hawks' consistently funny romantic comedy.
A great screwball comedy, with Stanwyck in one of her sexiest roles.
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