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Father Was a Fullback
Father Was a Fullback

Father Was a Fullback

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

Comedy
September 30, 19491h 24m6.3 / 10
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.

Director
John M. Stahl
John M. Stahl
Production
20th Century Fox
Cast
Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurrayGeorge Cooper
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'HaraElizabeth Cooper
Betty Lynn
Betty LynnConnie Cooper
Natalie Wood
Natalie WoodEllen Cooper
Rudy Vallee
Rudy ValleeMr. Jessup
Thelma Ritter
Thelma RitterGeraldine
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