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Father Was a Fullback

6.0 84 mins Comedy   1949
20th Century Fox  
Director(s): John M. Stahl

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.

Casts of Father Was a Fullback

Fred MacMurray

as George Cooper

Maureen O'Hara

as Elizabeth Cooper

Betty Lynn

as Connie Cooper

Natalie Wood

as Ellen Cooper

Rudy Vallee

as Mr. Jessup

Thelma Ritter

as Geraldine

Jim Backus

as Professor Sullivan

Richard Tyler

as Joe Birch

Buddy Martin

as Cheerleader

Frank Mills

as Assistant Football Coach

Mickey McCardle

as Jones

Louise Lorimer

as Mrs. Jones

Ruth Clifford

as Neighbor

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