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Father Was a Fullback (1949)

September 30, 1949 (US) Comedy • 84m

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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Top Billed 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

Jim Backus
Jim Backus

Professor Sullivan

Buddy Martin
Buddy Martin

Cheerleader

Frank Mills
Frank Mills

Assistant Football Coach

Crew
Aleen Leslie
Aleen Leslie

Screenplay

Mary Loos
Mary Loos

Screenplay

Richard Sale
Richard Sale

Screenplay

Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck

Executive Producer

Chester Gore
Chester Gore

Art Direction

Lyle R. Wheeler
Lyle R. Wheeler

Art Direction

Thomas Little
Thomas Little

Set Decoration

Stuart A. Reiss
Stuart A. Reiss

Set Decoration

Kay Nelson
Kay Nelson

Costume Design

Ben Nye
Ben Nye

Makeup Artist

Lloyd Ahern Sr.
Lloyd Ahern Sr.

Director of Photography



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Status

Released

Original Language

EN

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