What is Ball of Fire / Bluebeards 8th Wife about?

Double Feature: BALL OF FIRE Barbara Stanwyck is Sugarpuss O’Shea, a wisecracking nightclub singer on the run from mob kingpins. Gary Cooper is Professor Bertram Potts, a naive scholar who meets the crooner while researching slang. Two worlds collide as Sugarpuss hides out with Potts and his nerdy crew of lexicographers in this hilarious romantic comedy. BLUEBEARD’S EIGHTH WIFE, Gary Cooper plays multimillionaire Michael Brandon, who changes wives as if they were underwear (or, in this case, pajama tops) until he marries the daughter (Claudette Colbert) of an impoverished marquis. As lucrative as divorce would be, the young woman is determined to be the final Mrs. Brandon.

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What is Ball of Fire / Bluebeards 8th Wife about?: Double Feature: BALL OF FIRE Barbara Stanwyck is Sugarpuss O’Shea, a wisecracking nightclub singer on the run from mob kingpins. Gary Cooper is Professor Bertram Potts, a naive scholar who meets the crooner while researching slang. Two worlds collide as Sugarpuss hides out with Potts and his nerdy crew of lexicographers in this hilarious romantic comedy. BLUEBEARD’S EIGHTH WIFE, Gary Cooper plays multimillionaire Michael Brandon, who changes wives as if they were underwear (or, in this case, pajama tops) until he marries the daughter (Claudette Colbert) of an impoverished marquis. As lucrative as divorce would be, the young woman is determined to be the final Mrs. Brandon.