Father Was a Fullback

United States

1949

84 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Clifford Goldsmith, Aleen Leslie, Casey Robinson, Mary Loos, Richard Sale

CAST Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Betty Lynn, Rudy Vallee, Thelma Ritter, Natalie Wood, Jim Backus, Richard Tyler, Buddy Martin, Frank Mills, Mickey McCardle, John McKee, Louise Lorimer, Ruth Clifford

PROD DES Chester Gore, Lyle R. Wheeler

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. —IMDb

Director

John M. Stahl

John Malcolm Stahl (January 21, 1886 – January 12, 1950) was an American film director and producer.

Born in New York City, New York, he began working in the city’s growing motion picture industry at a young age and directed his first silent film short in 1914. In the early 1920s Stahl signed on with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in Hollywood and in 1924 was part of the Mayer team that became MGM Studios.

In 1927, John Stahl was one of the thirty-six founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. With the industry’s transition to talkies and feature-length films, John Stahl successfully made the adjustment and for Universal Pictures he directed the 1934 film Imitation of Life which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. The following year, he directed Magnificent Obsession, starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor.

John Stahl continued to produce and direct major productions as well filler shorts right up to the time of his death. Some… read more