Father Was a Fullback
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“I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!”
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.
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Cast
13 people
Fred MacMurray
George Cooper
Known for
Double Indemnity
The Apartment
Maureen O'Hara
Elizabeth Cooper
Known for
Miracle on 34th Street
The Quiet Man
Betty Lynn
Connie Cooper
Known for
The Andy Griffith Show
Cheaper by the Dozen
Natalie Wood
Ellen Cooper
Known for
West Side Story
Rebel Without a Cause
Rudy Vallee
Mr. Jessup
Known for
The Palm Beach Story
Unfaithfully Yours
Thelma Ritter
Geraldine
Known for
Rear Window
All About Eve
Jim Backus
Professor Sullivan
Known for
Gilligan's Island
Rebel Without a Cause
Richard Tyler
Joe Birch
Known for
The Bells of St. Mary's
Hooper
Buddy Martin
Cheerleader
Also in
Bayou Ghost
Frank Mills
Assistant Football Coach
Also in
The Son of Kong
The Sea Wolf
Mickey McCardle
Jones
Also in
Fighter Squadron
At Sword's Point
Louise Lorimer
Mrs. Jones
Known for
Compulsion
The Prowler
John M. Stahl Director · Casey Robinson Screenplay Richard Sale Screenplay
Worldwide gross $1.8M · United States release September 30, 1949 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,800,000
Production
20th Century Fox
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Spanish
Release dates
United States · September 30, 1949
Theatrical
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