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Father Was a Fullback (1949)

1h 24m · 30 Sep 1949

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

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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.

Movie ID161114
GenreComedy
DirectorJohn M. Stahl
Main castFred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Betty Lynn, Natalie Wood, Rudy Vallee, Thelma Ritter, Jim Backus, Richard Tyler
Release date30 September 1949
Release year1949
LanguageSpanish
Duration84 min (1h 24m)
Rating6.3 / 10 (TMDB)
Production house20th Century Fox

Director: John M. Stahl
Writers: Mary Loos, Richard Sale, Aleen Leslie, Casey Robinson

Top cast

Fred MacMurrayGeorge Cooper Maureen O'HaraElizabeth Cooper Betty LynnConnie Cooper Natalie WoodEllen Cooper Rudy ValleeMr. Jessup Thelma RitterGeraldine Jim BackusProfessor Sullivan
Richard TylerJoe Birch
Buddy MartinCheerleader
Frank MillsAssistant Football Coach
Mickey McCardleJones
Louise LorimerMrs. Jones Ruth CliffordNeighbor

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