Father Was a Fullback

Father Was a Fullback

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

1949 · 84 min · ★ 6.3 · Comedy

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.

Directed by John M. Stahl · Written by Mary Loos

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Fred MacMurray George Cooper
Maureen O'Hara Elizabeth Cooper
Betty Lynn Connie Cooper
Natalie Wood Ellen Cooper
Rudy Vallee Mr. Jessup
Thelma Ritter Geraldine
Jim Backus Professor Sullivan
Richard Tyler Joe Birch
Buddy Martin Cheerleader
Frank Mills Assistant Football Coach
Mickey McCardle Jones
Louise Lorimer Mrs. Jones

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