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MASTER SCORE 58.6 / 100
1949·Comedy / Sport·1h 24m

FATHER WAS A FULLBACK

“I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!”

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.

Above the Line
John M. Stahl·DirectorMary Loos·ScreenplayRichard Sale·ScreenplayLloyd Ahern Sr.·Director of PhotographyCyril J. Mockridge·MusicJ. Watson Webb Jr.·Editor
Cast
Fred MacMurray·George CooperMaureen O'Hara·Elizabeth CooperBetty Lynn·Connie CooperNatalie Wood·Ellen CooperRudy Vallee·Mr. JessupThelma Ritter·GeraldineJim Backus·Professor SullivanRichard Tyler·Joe BirchBuddy Martin·CheerleaderFrank Mills·Assistant Football Coach
Full Crew
(16 credits)
Directing· 1
John M. Stahl·Director
Writing· 4
Mary Loos·ScreenplayRichard Sale·ScreenplayAleen Leslie·ScreenplayCasey Robinson·Screenplay
Camera· 1
Lloyd Ahern Sr.·Director of Photography
Editing· 1
J. Watson Webb Jr.·Editor
Sound & Music· 1
Cyril J. Mockridge·Music
Art & Design· 6
Chester Gore·Art DirectionKay Nelson·Costume DesignLyle R. Wheeler·Art DirectionStuart A. Reiss·Set DecorationThomas Little·Set DecorationBen Nye·Makeup Artist
Production· 2
Darryl F. Zanuck·Executive ProducerFred Kohlmar·Producer
By the Numbers
58.6
OF 100
Master Score
6.4
OF 10
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