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Father Was a Fullback(1949)

09/30/1949 (US)Comedy1h 24m
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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.

Movie Cast

Fred MacMurray photo

Fred MacMurray

George Cooper

Maureen O'Hara photo

Maureen O'Hara

Elizabeth Cooper

Betty Lynn photo

Betty Lynn

Connie Cooper

Natalie Wood photo

Natalie Wood

Ellen Cooper

Rudy Vallee photo

Rudy Vallee

Mr. Jessup

Thelma Ritter photo

Thelma Ritter

Geraldine

Jim Backus photo

Jim Backus

Professor Sullivan

Richard Tyler photo

Richard Tyler

Joe Birch

Buddy Martin photo

Buddy Martin

Cheerleader

Frank Mills photo

Frank Mills

Assistant Football Coach

Movie Stats

StatusReleased

BudgetNot Given

RevenueNot Given

Production Company20th Century Fox

Original LanguageEnglish

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