Father Was a Fullback

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Fred MacMurray

George Cooper

Age : 83 | Popularity : 14%

Maureen O'Hara

Elizabeth Cooper

Age : 95 | Popularity : 9%

Betty Lynn

Connie Cooper

Age : 97 | Popularity : 7%

Natalie Wood

Ellen Cooper

Age : 43 | Popularity : 22%

Rudy Vallee

Mr. Jessup

Age : 84 | Popularity : 7%

Thelma Ritter

Geraldine

Age : 66 | Popularity : 6%

Jim Backus

Professor Sullivan

Age : 76 | Popularity : 10%

Richard Tyler

Joe Birch

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Art	Art Direction	Lyle R. Wheeler Chester Gore
	Set Decoration	Thomas Little Stuart A. Reiss
Writing	Screenplay	Casey Robinson Richard Sale Mary Loos Aleen Leslie
Production	Executive Producer	Darryl F. Zanuck
	Producer	Fred Kohlmar
Sound	Music	Cyril J. Mockridge
Camera	Director of Photography	Lloyd Ahern
Costume & Make-Up	Makeup Artist	Ben Nye
	Costume Design	Kay Nelson
Directing	Director	John M. Stahl
Editing	Editor	J. Watson Webb Jr.
Department	Role	Name

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