Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Father Was a Fullback (1949)

Starring Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, Betty Lynn, Jim Backus, Thelma Ritter, and Rudy Vallee. Directed by John M. Stahl. A college football coach has more than enough problems on the job without his teenage daughter complicating his life at home. Convinced she's unattractive to the opposite sex she resigns herself to a loveless existence. When a fictional article she pens about a teenage bubble dancer appears in a confessions magazine, the boys come calling. The young author dates a high school football star from across town who chooses to attend her father's college to be near his new-found sweetheart. Papa's gridiron and domestic problems are solved.

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