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Father Was a Fullback (1949)

★ 6.0/10 84 min Comedy United States English
Director: John M. Stahl
Streaming: Not available
I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!

Description

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.

Top Cast

Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray George Cooper
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara Elizabeth Cooper
Betty Lynn
Betty Lynn Connie Cooper
Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood Ellen Cooper
Rudy Vallee
Rudy Vallee Mr. Jessup
Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter Geraldine
Jim Backus
Jim Backus Professor Sullivan
Richard Tyler Joe Birch

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