All Else Confusion

Check out Barbara Stanwyck as she teaches Gary Cooper and his seven companions American slang in Ball of Fire. Stanwyck plays a stripper, Sugarplum O'Shea, who needs to hide out from the law for a while. What better place to hide than with a group of old professors (and one young one, played by Cooper) who are researching slang? Sugarplum teaches the professors how to cha-cha and teaches Cooper the meaning of "yum-yum"! Besides Stanwyck and Cooper, this film features delightful characters like S.Z Sakall, Dan Duryea, Elisah Cook, Jr., and a young Dana Andrews. Stanwyck is lots of fun as the jiving Sugarpuss, and Cooper is great as the nerdy, but very attractive, professor.

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