Ball of Fire

"[about the professors' workroom] Say, who decorated this place? The mug that shot Lincoln?"

"Who is that guy who learned so much from watching an apple drop?"

"[about Potts] Yes, I love him. I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. Looks like a giraffe, and I love him. I love him because he's the kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. Love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk!"

"We're working under pressure. After nine years of effort, we are, as the race track enthusiast might say, in the home stretch. Three more years and our encyclopedia will be finished. Let's not bog down in the middle of the letter S."

"[to Sugarpuss] I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body."

"Sugarpuss, uh, before you go, would you... would you, eh, yum me just once more?"

"You know, I was kinda counting on Sugarpuss to tell ya the score. Trouble is, she's all right givin' out with the twists and the wisecracks, but when it comes to leveling off she gets chicken."

"Miss Bragg: That is the kind of woman that makes whole civilizations topple!"

"Professor Gurkakoff: [discovering Sugarpuss gave back the wrong ring] The subconscious never makes a mistake. She gave you the ring she didn't want - his ring - and she kept the one she wanted - yours."

"Professor Magenbruch: Maybe my data on sex is a little outdated, too."

"I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss -- THE JERK!"

"The New Year's red-hot comedy!"

"The riotous but tender comedy of a slang-hunter professor, baffled by the words, but a sucker for the wiles of a hot-spot Queen of Jive who used his study as a hide-out!"

"Riotous but tender comedy of a professor so anxious to learn the slang pf a hep-cat queen that she puts his heart in a sling!"

"[After the opening credits] Once upon a time—in 1941 to be exact—there lived in a great, tall forest—called New York--eight men who were writing an encyclopedia. They were so wise they knew everything. The depth of the oceans, and what makes a glowworm glow, and what tune Nero fiddled while Rome was burning. But there was one thing about which they knew very little--as you shall see..."

"Barbara Stanwyck — Catherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea"

"Gary Cooper — Professor Bertram Potts"

"Dana Andrews — Joe Lilac"

"Oskar Homolka — Professor Gurkakoff"

"Henry Travers — Professor Jerome"

"S.Z. Sakall — Professor Magenbruch"

"Tully Marshall — Professor Robinson"

"Leonid Kinskey — Professor Quintana"

"Richard Haydn — Professor Oddley"

"Aubrey Mather — Professor Peagram"

"Dan Duryea — Duke Pastrami"

"Ralph Peters — Asthma Anderson"

"Kathleen Howard — Miss Bragg"