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Father Was a Fullback

60 %|Sep 30, 1949|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.

Featured Crew

Darryl F. Zanuck
Executive Producer
Mary Loos
Screenplay
Richard Sale
Screenplay
John M. Stahl
Director
Aleen Leslie
Screenplay
Fred Kohlmar
Producer
Casey Robinson
Screenplay
Stuart A. Reiss
Set Decoration

Cast

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