Father Was a Fullback

John M. Stahl
1949-09-30

I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!
6
84 min

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

Name Character Team
Fred MacMurray George Cooper Unowned
Maureen O'Hara Elizabeth Cooper Unowned
Betty Lynn Connie Cooper Unowned
Natalie Wood Ellen Cooper Unowned
Rudy Vallee Mr. Jessup Unowned
Thelma Ritter Geraldine Unowned
Jim Backus Professor Sullivan Unowned
Richard Tyler Joe Birch Unowned
Buddy Martin Cheerleader Unowned
Frank Mills Assistant Football Coach Unowned
Mickey McCardle Jones Unowned
Louise Lorimer Mrs. Jones Unowned
Ruth Clifford Neighbor Unowned