Ball of Fire

Billy Wilder and the 1930s Romantic Comedy

Elise Moore·

Issue 87: Billy Wilder

Wilder's early work in romantic comedy—Bluebeards Eighth Wife, Midnight, Ball of Fire, and The Major and the Minor—makes it easier to spot the element of enchantment that lingers in his tonally complex mature comedies

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