Father Was a Fullback (1949)

  • NR
  • 09/30/1949 (US)
  • Comedy
  • 1h 24m

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.

Mary Loos

Screenplay

Richard Sale

Screenplay

John M. Stahl

Director

Aleen Leslie

Screenplay

Casey Robinson

Screenplay

Cast

Fred MacMurray's headshot

Fred MacMurray

George Cooper
Maureen O'Hara's headshot

Maureen O'Hara

Elizabeth Cooper
Betty Lynn's headshot

Betty Lynn

Connie Cooper
Natalie Wood's headshot

Natalie Wood

Ellen Cooper
Rudy Vallee's headshot

Rudy Vallee

Mr. Jessup
Thelma Ritter's headshot

Thelma Ritter

Geraldine
Jim Backus's headshot

Jim Backus

Professor Sullivan
Richard Tyler's headshot

Richard Tyler

Joe Birch

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