Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)

Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film about a widower with ten children who falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.

Directed by Melville Shavelson. Written by Mort Lachman and and Melville Shavelson, based on a story by Bob Carroll Jr. and Madelyn Davis.

A Honeymoon is No Place to Have Kids!taglines

Frank Beardsley

• [narrating] It was a typical wedding: enemies of the bride on the right, enemies of the groom on the left.

Dialogue

Jean: You mean he doesn't know about us?

Helen: Well. Of course he does, Darling!

Jean: All of us?

Colleen: Oh, Mother. That's so romantic! You lied to him!

Helen: I did not lie to him! I just didn't have the nerve to tell him the whole truth!

Colleen: Mmm, I understand! No man wants a liaison with a woman with eight children!

Janette: What's a liaison?

Colleen: An affair.

Janette: That's what I thought.

Jean: Me too.

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Mary: I got there as fast as I could, Sister Mary. What is it this time?

Mary: Why don't you ask Phillip?

Helen: Phillip? [Phillip turns around, revealing a black eye] Darling! What happened?

Phillip: Nothing.

Helen: Who did that to you?

Phillip: One of the kids. [points at Sister Mary] *She* started it. She says I'm not legal.

Helen: What?

Phillip: And Mike isn't my brother.

Helen: Of course he's your brother.

Phillip: Then my name's Phillip Beardsley.

Mary: Phillip North.

Phillip: There she goes again.

Mary: Sister, couldn't you - couldn't you just call him Phillip Beardsley?

Mary: I'm sorry, but the school requires that we use their legal names.

Phillip: Let's go to another school.

Helen: Sister, I, uh... I understand your legal problem, but you must try to understand mine. You see, I'm trying to bring two families together, and this is the first sign that I may be succeeding. So, I really would appreciate it if you'd let Phillip sign his name Beardsley.

Mary: But legally, it's North.

Mary: But it's more important that emotionally, it's Beardsley.

Mary: North.

Helen: Beardsley.

Mary: North!

Helen: Beardsley, Beardsley, Beardsley!

Phillip: Watch out, Mom. You might get a black eye.

Taglines

• A Honeymoon is No Place to Have Kids!

• He had a population of 10...She had a community of 8...When you have 18 kids - nothing's impossible...except having nineteen!

• The Bride Had 8 Boys and Girls. The Groom Had 10 Boys and Girls. Their wedding night set new attendance records.

Cast

The North Family

• Lucille Ball as Helen North (the mother of 8 Kids) from Yours later Joe's mother from Ours
• Jennifer Leak as Colleen North, Helen's daughter
• Kimberly Beck as Janette North, Helen's daughter
• Kevin Burchett as Nicky North, Helen's son
• Mitch Vogel as Tommy North, Helen's son
• Margot Jane as Jean North, Helen's daughter
• Eric Shea as Phillip North, Helen's son
• Greg Atkins as Gerald North, Helen's son
• Lynnell Atkins as Teresa North, Helen's daughter

The Beardsley Family

• Henry Fonda as Frank Beardsley (the father of 10 Kids) from Mine later Joe's father from Ours
• Tim Matthieson as Mike Beardsley, Frank's son
• Gil Rogers as Rusty Beardsley, Frank's son
• Gary Goetzman as Greg Beardsley, Frank's adoptive son
• Nancy Roth as Rosemary Beardsley, Frank's daughter
• Suzanne Cupito as Louise Beardsley, Frank's daughter
• Maralee Foster as Mary Beardsley, Frank's daughter
• Holly O'Brien as Susan Beardsley, Frank's daughter
• Michele Tobin as Veronica Beardsley, Frank's daughter
• Tracy Nelson as Germaine Beardsley, Frank's daughter
• Stephanie Oliver as Joan Beardsley, Frank's daughter

Others

• Van Johnson as Warrant Officer Darrell Harrison
• Louise Troy as Madeleine Love
• Sidney Miller as Dr. Ashford
• Tom Bosley as Family Doctor
• Walter Brooke as Howard Beardsley, Frank's brother
• Nancy Howard as Nancy Beardsley, Howard's wife (Frank's sister-in-law)
• Mary Gregory as Sister Mary Alice
• Marti Litis as Hospital Nurse
• Harry Holcombe as Judge
• Ben Murphy as Larry, Colleen's boyfriend

External links

• Yours, Mine and Ours quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Yours, Mine and Ours at Allmovie