Ball of Fire is a 1941 American English-language Comedy Romance motion picture featuring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.z. Sakall, Tully Marshall and Chalky Williams. The movie is inspired from From A to Z by Thomas Monroe and Billy Wilder. This Samuel Goldwyn Productions film concerns a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge. Samuel Goldwyn Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Samuel Goldwyn. Ball of Fire is written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Thomas Monroe and it is directed by Howard Hawks. RKO Radio Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The motion picture has a running time of 111 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The movie made a box office gross of $2 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Cinematography was done by Gregg Toland and editing by Daniel Mandell. The music was composed by Alfred Newman.