What is Ball of Fire / Twentieth Century about?

Name: Ball of Fire / Twentieth Century
Genre: Comedy,Romance

BALL OF FIRE, 1941, MGM Repertory, 111 min. A raucous variation on SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES, with Barbara Stanwyck as a sassy showgirl hiding out from her gangster boyfriend (Dana Andrews) who moves in with a group of stuffy professors who are working on a dictionary of slang. TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1934, Columbia, 91 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. The granddaddy of all screwballs, as egomaniacal Broadway producer John Barrymore makes a star of shopgirl Carole Lombard (as this picture did in real life), then goes berserk trying to win her back after she leaves him. Totally uncompromising in every respect, this is a flat-out masterpiece.

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What is Ball of Fire / Twentieth Century about?: BALL OF FIRE, 1941, MGM Repertory, 111 min. A raucous variation on SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES, with Barbara Stanwyck as a sassy showgirl hiding out from her gangster boyfriend (Dana Andrews) who moves in with a group of stuffy professors who are working on a dictionary of slang.
TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1934, Columbia, 91 min. Dir. Howard Hawks. The granddaddy of all screwballs, as egomaniacal Broadway producer John Barrymore makes a star of shopgirl Carole Lombard (as this picture did in real life), then goes berserk trying to win her back after she leaves him. Totally uncompromising in every respect, this is a flat-out masterpiece.