Father Was a Fullback

Sep 30, 1949

1h 24m

★ 6.0

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Father Was a Fullback Trailers

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Cast

George Cooper

Fred MacMurray

Elizabeth Cooper

Maureen O'Hara

Connie Cooper

Betty Lynn

Ellen Cooper

Natalie Wood

Mr. Jessup

Rudy Vallee

Geraldine

Thelma Ritter

Professor Sullivan

Jim Backus

Joe Birch

Richard Tyler

Cheerleader

Buddy Martin

Assistant Football Coach

Frank Mills

Jones

Mickey McCardle

Mrs. Jones

Louise Lorimer

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