Father Was a Fullback (1949)
"I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!"

Title: Father Was a Fullback
Original Title: Father Was a Fullback
Release Date: 1949-09-30
Status: Released
Rating: 6/10 (from 1 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox
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.
Cast

Fred MacMurray
George Cooper

Maureen O'Hara
Elizabeth Cooper

Betty Lynn
Connie Cooper

Natalie Wood
Ellen Cooper

Rudy Vallee
Mr. Jessup

Thelma Ritter
Geraldine

Jim Backus
Professor Sullivan

Richard Tyler
Joe Birch

Buddy Martin
Cheerleader

Frank Mills
Assistant Football Coach