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Father Was a Fullback (1949)
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22 December 1949 (Australia) moreTagline:
I wanted to live DANGEROUSLY so I married a football coach (who lost every game)Plot:
Football coach George Cooper has as many problems managing his football team as he has at home dealing with his daughters, Ellen and Connie. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Pleasant Family Comedy, Just Before TV -- Which It Resembles moreCast
(Credited cast) | Fred MacMurray | ... | George 'Coop' Cooper |
 | Maureen O'Hara | ... | Elizabeth Cooper |
 | Betty Lynn | ... | Constance 'Connie' Cooper |
| Rudy Vallee | ... | Mr. Roger 'Jess' Jessup |
| Thelma Ritter | ... | Geraldine |
 | Natalie Wood | ... | Ellen Cooper |
| Jim Backus | ... | Professor 'Sully' Sullivan (as James G. Backus) |
| Richard Tyler | ... | Hercules Smith aka Joe Birch |
| Buddy Martin | ... | Cheerleader |
| Frank Mills | ... | Assistant Football Coach |
| Mickey McCardle | ... | Jones |
| John McKee | ... | Cy |
| Louise Lorimer | ... | Mrs. Jones |
| Ruth Clifford | ... | Neighbor |
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Maureen O'Hara would have made any man a perfect wife. And she was -- we are talking strictly on screen here -- a good mother too.
This has a little to do with football and mostly to do with the growing pains of an adolescent girl. The actress who plays her did go on to TV. Here she is pretty unappealing. Her younger sister is Natalie Wood. I don't think I ever liked Wood in a movie made when she was an adult but she was a bewitching child actress. She sparkles here.
Fred McMurray does a decent job. Never a favorite of mine, he too had a major career in television.
What drew me to this was Thelma Ritter, always a delight. She plays the family's live-in maid. A lot of movies have maids, usually back-talking ones. Would a football coach at a state college, with a terrible team, have been able to afford what seems such a luxury now? It doesn't seem likely. But her presence is most welcome.