Have You Honestly Seen The Film?
From a New Yorker squib on Howard Hawks' A Song Is Born, we get this slam at Ball Of Fire:
The mustily word-bound original runs mainly on the charisma of its stars, Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.
What nonsense. Ball Of Fire is a top-notch comedy with a great Billy Wilder script that delights to this day.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:24 AM
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Also nonsense: "Danny Kaye is more plausible as a naïve intellectual than Cooper."
Drum boogie, drum boogie...
I agree, Irene. Cooper has become known for playing the strong, silent (okay, monosyllabic) type, but he could suggest intelligence and was, in fact, a sophisticated man. His performance in Ball Of Fire is one of my favorites.
On the other hand, even if you love Danny Kaye, A Song Is Born is one of the worst things he ever did.
In trying to think of names to call Richard Brody for slighting such a great film, my mind is racing with synonyms for "meatball."
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