Father Was a Fullback (1949)
1h 24m
Running Time
September 30, 1949Release Date
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
1h 24m
Running Time
September 30, 1949Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
Fred MacMurray
George Cooper
Maureen O'Hara
Elizabeth Cooper
Betty Lynn
Connie Cooper
Natalie Wood
Ellen Cooper
Betty Lynn
Connie Cooper
Rudy Vallee
Mr. Jessup
John M. Stahl
Director
Thelma Ritter
Geraldine
Clifford Goldsmith
Writer
Jim Backus
Professor Sullivan
Richard Tyler
Joe Birch
Aleen Leslie
Writer
Buddy Martin
Cheerleader
Casey Robinson
Writer
Mary Loos
Writer
Frank Mills
Assistant Football Coach
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Father Was a Fullback is a 1949 black-and-white film from 20th Century Fox based on a comedy by Clifford Goldsmith. The film is about a college American football star and his woes. The film stars Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, and Betty Lynn.