Subject(s): Dennis Quaid and Steve Allen Format: 8 x 10 Glossy Photograph with caption. Origin: Authentic Orion Pictures Corporation movie photo provided to media outlets for promotional purposes. Release Date: 1989 Condition: Like New Comments: Great Balls of Fire! is a 1989 American biographical film directed by Jim McBride and starring Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as Myra. Based on a biography by Myra Lewis and Murray M. Silver Jr., the film covers the early career of Jerry Lee Lewis, when he became a teen idol and married his 13-year-old first cousin (once removed) Myra. Until the scandal of the marriage depreciated his image, many had thought Lewis would supplant Elvis Presley as the "King of Rock and Roll" in the 1950s.