Poster Details
Poster title: Ball of Fire
Poster Year: 1941
Poster Origin: UK
Size: door panel 20x60" (51x152cm)
Film title: Ball of Fire
Film Year: 1941
Film Origin: USA
Film Directors: Howard Hawks
Film Actors: Gary CooperBarbara StanwyckOskar HomolkaHenry Travers
Film Plot: A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer avoid police and escape from the Mob.
Categories: Bold ColorsClassicsFashionFilmLarge PostersRemarkably Rolled
Keywords: 1940scanedapperhatredsuityellow
Grade: C7-C8 Fine to Very Fine. Rolled, single-sided. Theater used poster with only very minimal handling/edge/surface wear, approximately 1 inch tear in the top center, light surface loss in the upper border from tape removal, light wrinkling in the lower right and left corners, but otherwise a wonderful original stone little example with fantastic colors.
Framing: List prices are for posters only. Please inquire to discuss framing options.
Price: $850
Howard Hawks was in top form for this screwball comedy which saw worlds collide between a language specialist professor, a nightclub singer as well as her mobster boyfriend. Hilarity of course ensues. Interestingly, the script was penned by Billy Wilder and was based in part on the fairy tale, Snow White (with the group of professors led by Cooper as the dwarfs). And even though Wilder knew Ball of Fire was being directed by the Howard Hawks, he was growing tired of unapproved changes to his scripts by the studios and other directors. When Wilder told Hawks this, he happily let Wilder study his directing on the set. From then on Wilder directed all his own films!
This British door panel boasts impressive full-length images of Cooper and Stanwyck. The poster had two tears that extend from the top border about halfway down the poster in the background before being professionally restored.
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