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Father Was a Fullback

I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!
Sep 30, 1949 · 1h 24m
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Comedy

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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.

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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
Directed by John M. Stahl

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Revenue
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Production
20th Century Fox
Country
US

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