Howard Hawks’ classic screwball comedy Ball of Fire, with Barbara Stanwyck’s stripper “Sugarpuss O’Shea” hiding out in the home of eight unworldly professors, including super-square Gary Cooper, opens Christmas Day at Film Forum for a special holiday run, Friday, December 25th – Thursday, December 31st.
Screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! Archival 35mm print.
DAILY (except SUN)
12:30 2:45 5:15 7:30 9:45
SUN: 1:15 3:30 5:45 8:00
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Film Forum is located at 209 West Houston Street in New York.
“PURE JOY! STANWYCK IS ALL SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP!”
– Time Out (London)
“Stanwyck is saucy, naughty, and as quick as a shortstop!”
– David Thomson
“THE WRITING IS A MARVEL! Garbagemen and waiters, pool hall bums and showgirls, newsboys and college boys — they’re all virtuosos singing the wisecracking arias Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett have given them.”
– Charles Taylor, Village Voice
Click here to read about Barbara’s other films.
