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Too Many Girls
Mr Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
George Abbott
Casts & Crew
Lucille Ball
Richard Carlson
Ann Miller
Eddie Bracken
Frances Langford
Desi Arnaz
Hal Le Roy
Libby Bennett
Harry Shannon
Douglas Walton
Chester Clute
Tiny Person
Ivy Scott
Byron Shores
Michael Alvarez
Zita Baca
John Benton
Chief John Big Tree
Pamela Blake
Iron Eyes Cody
Homer Dickenson
Peggy Drake
Tommy Graham
Averell Harris
Shep Houghton
Harry James
Ellen Johnson
Van Johnson
Janet Lavis
Mildred Law
Amarilla Morris
Jay Silverheels
Grady Sutton
Anna Mae Tessle
Dorothy Vernon
Dan White
Sethma Williams
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