Lions, Towers & Shields

21: Yum Yum and the Nerd

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It’s “Ball of Fire.” Howard Hawks directs; Billy Wilder writes. And Barbara Stanwyck is Sugarpuss O’Shea, who hides out from the cops with a group of dotty professors working on a new encyclopedia. Gary Cooper is in it too, along with S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall, Richard Haydn and many more. It’s a comedy classic. Even so, we manage to drop many many hot takes.

Ball of Fire

Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman, David J. Loehr and Greg Maupin

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Ball of Fire
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Old Movies, New Things: discs, books and other physical objects

  • Blu-ray: Holiday Affair (Warner Archive), Young Man with a Horn (Warner Archive), Mister Roberts (Warner Archive), The Hrvey Girls (Warner Archive), The Shop Around the Corner (Warner Archive), It Happened on 5th Avenue (Warner Archive), The Best Years of Our Live (Warner Archive)

    • Sightings: classics on TV, streaming, and (someday) the festival circuit

    * This month’s TCM Spotlights: January TCM Star of the Month: Miriam Hopkins, Whodoneit Wednesday, The Studio System

    The Movie: review/commentary on a single classic film

    • Ball of Fire (1941), trailer
      • Available to stream, rent or buy digitally
      • On disc: DVD

        • Next time, we’ll watch:

        • Detour (1945)

        "A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Volume One" by Victoria Wilson

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