Father Was a Fullback
movie

I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!
Released September 30, 1949
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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.
Cast

Fred MacMurray
as
George Cooper

Maureen O'Hara
as
Elizabeth Cooper

Betty Lynn
as
Connie Cooper

Natalie Wood
as
Ellen Cooper

Rudy Vallee
as
Mr. Jessup

Thelma Ritter
as
Geraldine

Jim Backus
as
Professor Sullivan
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Richard Tyler
as
Joe Birch
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Buddy Martin
as
Cheerleader

Frank Mills
as
Assistant Football Coach
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Mickey McCardle
as
Jones

Louise Lorimer
as
Mrs. Jones
Crew

John M. Stahl
as
Director
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Aleen Leslie
as
Screenplay

Casey Robinson
as
Screenplay
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Mary Loos
as
Screenplay
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Richard Sale
as
Screenplay
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Fred Kohlmar
as
Producer
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Darryl F. Zanuck
as
Executive Producer
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Cyril J. Mockridge
as
Music
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J. Watson Webb Jr.
as
Editor
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Chester Gore
as
Art Direction
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Lyle R. Wheeler
as
Art Direction
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Thomas Little
as
Set Decoration