Father Was a Fullback

6.0
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 84 min
  • Premiere: 1949. September 30.

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.

Discover

Fred MacMurray

George Cooper

Maureen O'Hara

Elizabeth Cooper

Betty Lynn

Connie Cooper

Natalie Wood

Ellen Cooper

Rudy Vallee

Mr. Jessup

Thelma Ritter

Geraldine

Jim Backus

Professor Sullivan

Richard Tyler

Joe Birch

Buddy Martin

Cheerleader

Frank Mills

Assistant Football Coach

Louise Lorimer

Mrs. Jones

Ruth Clifford

Neighbor

Art

Stuart A. Reiss

Set Decoration

Chester Gore

Art Direction

Thomas Little

Set Decoration

Lyle R. Wheeler

Art Direction

Camera

Lloyd Ahern Sr.

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Kay Nelson

Costume Design

Ben Nye

Makeup Artist

Directing

John M. Stahl

Director

Editing

Production

Darryl F. Zanuck

Executive Producer

Fred Kohlmar

Producer

Sound

Writing

Mary Loos

Screenplay

Richard Sale

Screenplay

Aleen Leslie

Screenplay

Casey Robinson

Screenplay

Art

Stuart A. Reiss

Set Decoration

Chester Gore

Art Direction

Thomas Little

Set Decoration

Lyle R. Wheeler

Art Direction

Camera

Lloyd Ahern Sr.

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Kay Nelson

Costume Design

Ben Nye

Makeup Artist

Directing

John M. Stahl

Director

Editing

Production

Darryl F. Zanuck

Executive Producer

Fred Kohlmar

Producer

Sound

Writing

Mary Loos

Screenplay

Richard Sale

Screenplay

Aleen Leslie

Screenplay

Casey Robinson

Screenplay