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Father Was a Fullback

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

1949★ 6.3 · 31h 24mComedy

Overview

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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Maureen O'Hara
as Elizabeth Cooper

Natalie Wood
as Ellen Cooper

Fred MacMurray
as George Cooper

Jim Backus
as Professor Sullivan

Thelma Ritter
as Geraldine

Frank Mills
as Assistant Football Coach

Rudy Vallee
as Mr. Jessup

Louise Lorimer
as Mrs. Jones

Betty Lynn
as Connie Cooper

Ruth Clifford
as Neighbor

Richard Tyler
as Joe Birch

Mickey McCardle
as Jones

Father Was a Fullback

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