Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
a group of linguists

There is a great movie, Ball of Fire (1941, link), by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper as the philologist in a group of (seven?) encyclopedists. Barbara Stanwyck plays the singer, Sugarpuss O'Shea. This is one of her best performances.


That's the one! I haven't seen it for years but the Danny Kaye one was on tv recently and jogged my memory.