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Father Was a Fullback
Father Was a Fullback
6.0ReleasedComedy

Father Was a Fullback

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

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

Fred MacMurray

George Cooper

Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara

Elizabeth Cooper

Betty Lynn

Betty Lynn

Connie Cooper

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

Ellen Cooper

Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallee

Mr. Jessup

Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter

Geraldine

Jim Backus

Jim Backus

Professor Sullivan

Richard Tyler

Joe Birch

Buddy Martin

Cheerleader

Frank Mills

Frank Mills

Assistant Football Coach

Mickey McCardle

Jones

Louise Lorimer

Louise Lorimer

Mrs. Jones

Ruth Clifford

Ruth Clifford

Neighbor

Crew

Richard Sale

Screenplay

John M. Stahl

John M. Stahl

Director

Fred Kohlmar

Producer

Darryl F. Zanuck

Executive Producer

Mary Loos

Screenplay

Casey Robinson

Casey Robinson

Screenplay

Aleen Leslie

Screenplay

Thomas Little

Set Decoration

Kay Nelson

Costume Design

J. Watson Webb Jr.

Editor

Ben Nye

Makeup Artist

Chester Gore

Art Direction

Stuart A. Reiss

Set Decoration

Cyril J. Mockridge

Music

Lyle R. Wheeler

Art Direction

Lloyd Ahern Sr.

Director of Photography