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Father Was a Fullback

Father Was a Fullback
★ 6.3/10•1949•1h 24m•Comedy

I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!

Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.

John M. Stahl · Director

Aleen Leslie · Screenplay

Casey Robinson · Screenplay

Mary Loos · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 24m
LanguageEN
Release DateSep 30, 1949

Actors

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

George Cooper

Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara

Elizabeth Cooper

Betty Lynn

Betty Lynn

Connie Cooper

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

Ellen Cooper

Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallee

Mr. Jessup

Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter

Geraldine

Jim Backus

Jim Backus

Professor Sullivan

Richard Tyler

Joe Birch

Buddy Martin

Cheerleader

Frank Mills

Frank Mills

Assistant Football Coach

Mickey McCardle

Jones

Louise Lorimer

Louise Lorimer

Mrs. Jones

Ruth Clifford

Ruth Clifford

Neighbor

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