Ball of Fire(a.k.a. "The Professor and the Burlesque Queen")
US (1941): Comedy/Romance/Crime
When Gary Cooper and his sheltered, highbrow colleagues (Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Leonid Kinskey, Richard Haydn and Aubrey Mather) begin work on a new encyclopedia, he enlists the aid of Barbara Stanwyck to help explain slang, unaware that she is a gangster's moll being hidden by her on-the-lam boyfriend. Stanwyck's earthiness soon captivates the sheltered professor, who learns to pitch woo and fists as well as slang. Howard Hawks directs for Goldwyn/RKO Radio. Supporting cast also includes garbageman Allen Jenkins and gansters Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea and Ralph Peters. Edith Head designed Stanwyck's costumes. The story by Thomas Monroe Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett (who was unnamed with the nomination) was deservedly nominated for an Academy Award®:. Wilder and Brackett claimed to view their screenplay as a slightly more risque version of the 1938 Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (amctv.com)
4 nominations
· Actress 1941: Barbara Stanwyck
· Writing (Original Story) 1941: Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
· Music Scoring Awards (Scoring of a Dramatic Picture) 1941: Alfred Newman
· Sound Recording 1941: Thomas T. Moulton