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    Father Was a Fullback

    84'

    1949-09-30

    6.3

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

    Comedy

    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.

    WritingMary LoosDirectingJohn M. Stahl

    Cast

    1

    George Cooper

    Fred MacMurray

    2

    Elizabeth Cooper

    Maureen O'Hara

    1

    Connie Cooper

    Betty Lynn

    3

    Ellen Cooper

    Natalie Wood

    1

    Mr. Jessup

    Rudy Vallee

    1

    Geraldine

    Thelma Ritter

    2

    Professor Sullivan

    Jim Backus

    1

    Joe Birch

    Richard Tyler

    1

    Cheerleader

    Buddy Martin

    1

    Assistant Football Coach

    Frank Mills

    1

    Jones

    Mickey McCardle

    1

    Mrs. Jones

    Louise Lorimer

    1

    Neighbor

    Ruth Clifford

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. United States of America
    • List of languages:
      1. Spanish
      2. English
    • List of companies:
      1. 20th Century Fox
    • Vote Count: 3
    • Popularity: 1.2598
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:Father Was a Fullback

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