Yours, Mine and Ours
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Directed by	Melville Shavelson
Produced by	Robert F. Blumofe (Desilu Productions)
Written by	Helen Beardsley (book) Bob Carroll Jr. (story) Madelyn Davis (story) Mort Lachman (screenplay) Melville Shavelson (screenplay)
Starring	Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson
Music by	Fred Karlin
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	24 April, 1968 (USA), 12 August 1968 (Sweden), 23 August 1968 (Austria, West Germany), 30 August 1968 (Finland), 11 February 1969 (Denmark)
Running time	111 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	US $2,500,000 est.
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It was based loosely on the story of Frank and Helen Beardsley, although Desilu Productions bought the rights to the story long before Helen's autobiographical book Who Gets the Drumstick? was released to bookstores. Screenwriters Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll took the opportunity to write in several classic I Love Lucy-style stunts that in most cases have no basis in the actual lives of the Beardsley family, before Melville Shavelson and Mort Lachman took over primary writing duties. Nevertheless, it enjoyed great commercial success, and even the Beardsleys themselves appreciated it, though Frank Beardsley would definitely say that the version of the Beardsley story in the film was not exactly true. Helen Beardsley was the mother of the family inspiring Yours, Mine and Ours, played on film in 1968 by Lucille Ball and 2005 by Rene Russo. ... The Desilu logo, used in the 1960s. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... Madelyn Pugh was a television writer from the 1950s who helped create several of televisions most famous situations as a writer on I Love Lucy. ... Bob Carroll Jr. ... I Love Lucy is a popular American situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. ... Melville Shavelson (b. ...

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Plot

Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball take turns providing voice-over narration throughout--and in at least one scene, Van Johnson talks directly to the camera (a technique known as breaking the fourth wall), as does Fonda. Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ... Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, glamour girl and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Heres Lucy. ... Van Johnson (born Charles Van Johnson on August 25, 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American film and television actor and dancer. ... The fourth wall is the imaginary wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theater, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. ...

Henry Fonda's character, Frank Beardsley, is a Navy warrant officer, recently detached from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and assigned as project officer for the Fresnel lens glide-slope indicator, or "meatball," that would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers. Lucille Ball's character, Helen North, is a nurse working in the dispensary at the California naval base to which Frank is assigned. Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ... USN redirects here. ... For Warrant Officers in the United States military, see Warrant Officer (United States). ... Four aircraft carriers, (bottom-to-top) Principe de Asturias, amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, USS Forrestal and light V/STOL carrier HMS Invincible, showing size differences of late 20th century carriers An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to deploy and recover aircraft, acting as a sea-going airbase. ... For other ships of the same name, see USS Enterprise. ... Not to be confused with Fresnel lantern. ... Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, glamour girl and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Heres Lucy. ... This article is about the occupation. ... A hospital run by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the U.S state. ...

Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the Naval base (presumably Alameda Naval Air Station, though it is never identified) and then when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary, where Helen informs him that the young lady is simply growing up in a too-crowded house that lacks a mother's guidance. They immediately hit it off and go on a date, all the while shying away from admitting their respective secrets: Frank has ten children and Helen has eight, from previous marriages that ended in their spouses' deaths. A commissary is someone delegated by a superior to execute a duty or an office. ... Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS Alameda) was a United States Navy Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, on San Francisco Bay. ...

When each finally learns the other's secret, they initially resist their mutual attraction. But Chief Warrant Officer Darrell Harrison (Van Johnson) is determined to bring them together. To that end, he "fixes up" each of them with a blind date that is sure to be incompatible. Helen's date is an obstetrician (Sidney Miller) who stands a good head shorter than she; this prompts Helen to observe in voice-over, "Darrell had a vicious sense of humor." Frank's date is a "hip" girl (Louise Troy) who is not only young enough to be one of his daughters, but also is far too forward for his taste. As the final touch, Harrison makes sure that both dates take place in the same Japanese restaurant. As Harrison fully expects, Frank and Helen end up leaving the restaurant together in his car, with Frank's date sitting uncomfortably between the two as they carry on about their children. Van Johnson (born Charles Van Johnson on August 25, 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American film and television actor and dancer. ... A blind date is a date where the people involved have not met each other previously. ... This article needs cleanup. ...

Frank and Helen continue to date regularly, and eventually he invites her for dinner in his home. This turns nearly disastrous when Mike, Rusty, and Greg (Tim Matheson, Gil Rogers and Gary Goetzman), Frank's three sons, mix hefty doses of gin, scotch and vodka into Helen's drink. As a result Helen behaves in a wild and embarrassing manner, which Frank cannot comprehend until he catches his sons trying to conceal their laughter. "The court of inquiry is now in session!" he declares, and gets the three to own up and apologize. After this, he announces his intention to marry, adding, "And nobody put anything into my drink." Tim Matheson, an American actor, was born Timothy Lewis Matthieson on December 31, 1947, in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. ...

Most of the children fight the union at first, regarding each other and their respective step-parents with suspicion. Eventually, however, the eighteen children bond into one large blended family, about to become a little larger when Helen becomes pregnant. “Stepmom” redirects here. ...

Further tension develops between young Philip North and his teacher at the parochial school that he attends, because his teacher insists that he use his "legal" name (which remains North even after his mother's marriage to Beardsley). This prompts Frank and Helen to discuss cross-adopting one another's children. At first the children (except for Philip) are aghast at the notion of "reburying" their respective deceased biological parents. Yet the subsequent birth of Joseph John Beardsley finally unites the children, and they agree unanimously to the adoption under a common surname. A parochial school (or faith school) is a type of private school which engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. ... For other uses, see Adoption (disambiguation). ...

The film ends with Mike Beardsley, the eldest, going off to Camp Pendleton to begin his stint in the United States Marine Corps. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is near Oceanside, California. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States armed forces responsible for providing force projection from the sea,[1] using the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces and is one of seven uniformed services. ...

Cast

• Lucille Ball as Helen Brandmeier North Beardsley
• Henry Fonda as CWO Frank Beardsley, USN

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Adult friends and relatives

• Van Johnson as CWO Darrell Harrison, USN
• Walter Brooke as Howard Beardsley (Frank's brother, who in this film temporarily "borrows" Germaine and Joan Beardsley after Frank's detachment from the Enterprise.)
• Nancy Howard as Nancy Beardsley (Frank's sister-in-law)
• Sidney Miller as Dr. Ashford (Helen's date, an obstetrician who stands a good head shorter than she)
• Louise Troy as Madeleine Love (Frank's date, a "hip" girl young enough to be Frank's daughter)
• Tom Bosley as a family doctor who makes a house call on the Beardsleys in their "neutral" home. We later see this same doctor as the consulting physician for the California Draft Board when Mike Beardsley reports for a required physical exam.

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Frank's children

• Tim Matheson as Mike (credited as "Tim Matthieson")
• Gil Rogers as Rusty
• Gary Goetzman as Greg
• Nancy Roth as Rosemary
• Morgan Brittany as Louise (Credited as "Suzanne Cupito")
• Holly O'Brien as Susan
• Michele Tobin as Veronica
• Maralee Foster as Mary
• Tracy Nelson as Germaine
• Stephanie Oliver as Joan

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Helen's children

• Jennifer Leak as Colleen
• Kevin Burchett as Nick
• Kimberly Beck as Janette
• Mitch Vogel as Tommy
• Margot Jane as Jean
• Eric Shea as Philip
• Greg Atkins as Gerald
• Lynnell Atkins as Theresa

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Other acquaintance

• Ben Murphy as Larry, Colleen's boyfriend

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Teachers, officials, etc.

• Mary Gregory as Sister Mary Alice, who questions Philip's use of the Beardsley name
• Harry Holcombe as the Judge who handles the grand mutual adoption

Frank's unsuccessful housekeepers

• Ysabel MacCloskey as Number One, who lasts less than a day.
• Pauline Hague as Number Two, aka "Mrs. Anderson." She lasts a week--because she is hiding from the police. After a stint with the Bearsleys, she turns herself in.
• Marjorie Eaton as Number Three, aka "Mrs. Ferguson," who famously says, "Mrs. Anderson was last week; I'm Mrs. Ferguson, and you can send me my check!" She has the fight with Louise that precipitates Frank's second meeting with Helen.

Truth versus fiction

This film departs in many critical ways from the actual lives of Frank and Helen Beardsley and their children. The names of Frank and Helen Beardsley and their children are real. (In fact, the wedding invitation that appears midway through the film is the actual invitation that went out to Frank and Helen's real guests.) The career of Lieutenant Richard North USN is also described accurately, but briefly: specifically, he was a navigator on the crew of an A-3 Skywarrior that crashed in a routine training flight, killing all aboard, exactly as Lucille Ball (portraying Helen) describes in the script. Frank Beardsley is described correctly as a Navy warrant officer. The "loan-out" of the two youngest Beardsley daughters is also real, and indeed Michael, Charles ("Rusty"), and Gregory Beardsley were determined to see their father marry Helen North as a means of rectifying this situation. The movie correctly describes Frank Beardsley as applying his Navy mind-set to the daunting task of organizing such a large family (although the chart with the color-coded bathrooms and letter-coded bedrooms--"I'm Eleven Red A!"--is probably a typical Hollywood exaggeration). Finally, Michael Beardsley did indeed serve a term in the Marines, as did his brother Rusty. Helen Beardsley was the mother of the family inspiring Yours, Mine and Ours, played on film in 1968 by Lucille Ball and 2005 by Rene Russo. ... Lieutenant is a military, naval, paramilitary, fire service or police officer rank. ... Sky Warrior redirects here. ... ...

The similarities, however, end at this point. The critical differences, which one may observe by comparing this movie to Helen Beardsley's book Who Gets the Drumstick?,^[1] include the following:

• The film changes the ages and birth order of many of the children. As a corollary to this, the film places some of the children, most notably Colleen and Philip North, into situations having no historical warrant. For example, Colleen North did not have a boyfriend who took inappropriate liberties with Colleen.
• Contrary to the depiction in the film, Helen North and Frank Beardsley began their relationship by corresponding with one another in sympathy for similar losses that each had recently sustained: he of his wife and she of her husband. Furthermore, each knew exactly how many children the other had before their first meeting. Indeed, Frank and Helen did not meet by accident in a Navy commissary. Rather, Frank's sister told Helen about Frank's situation, and Helen wrote to Frank to offer her sympathy. (Similarly, on their first date, Helen made no attempt to hide her children from Frank.)
• Frank Beardsley was a yeoman (that is, a clerk) in the Navy and afterwards the personnel officer at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He played no role in the development of the "meatball," nor is he ever listed as having served aboard any ship named USS Enterprise.
• There is no historical warrant for the existence of Frank's "friend" CWO Darrell Harrison USN, the character portrayed by Van Johnson. In the film, CWO Harrison draws Frank and Helen together. Helen Beardsley says in Who Gets the Drumstick? that her own sister and brother played this role.
• Frank Beardsley never told his own story in print, and Helen provides very little description of Frank's home life before he married Helen. Nevertheless the historical warrant for Frank's home (before he marries Helen) not being exactly "shipshape," and for his not being able to keep a housekeeper longer than a week (see the Cast section above) is highly dubious.
• The couple who temporarily took care of Germaine and Joan Beardsley were not Frank's brother and sister-in-law, but were two unrelated friends of his.
• The North and Beardsley children received the prospect of Helen and Frank's marriage with enthusiasm and without reservation. Indeed, when Helen visited Frank at his house for the first time, she took her five oldest children in tow. They met some of their Beardsley counterparts and immediately became friends. From the moment that the prospect of Frank and Helen's marriage became real, the children all began regarding Frank and Helen as their parents and even brought pressure to bear on them to celebrate the marriage as soon as possible.
• The "drunken dinner scene" in which Mike, Rusty, and Greg Beardsley serve Helen North a double (or perhaps triple) screwdriver with Scotch and gin, is utterly without foundation. The scene is, however, reminiscent of the episode titled Lucy Does a TV Commercial in Lucille Ball's television show I Love Lucy in which she over-rehearses a television commercial for a vitamin elixir with a very high alcohol content. (Vitameatavegamin) This scene was probably a legacy contribution from Madelyn Pugh (Davis) and Bob Carroll, the two head writers for I Love Lucy.
• Mike, Rusty, and Greg observed "company manners" from the beginning of Helen's first visit to the Beardsley home. Their gestures touched Helen greatly in a manner that the film fails utterly to convey.
• The blended family did not move into a neutral home. Instead, Frank Beardsley had bedrooms and bathrooms added to his existing home, and Helen North sold her home and moved into his. (However, the leaking-roof scene has a basis in an incident occurring to Helen North while she still lived on Whidbey Island; that incident prompted her to move to California.)
• The North boy who was determined to be bad because "the good die young" was actually Nicholas North, not Philip. Likewise, it was Nicholas who first noticed that his teachers commanded him to continue to use the North name after his mother's marriage, even though at the time he preferred the Beardsley name. (However, the near-riot in the film, that a schoolteacher incites in her classroom over the naming issue, is also totally unfounded.)
• Philip's idolization of Mike, and Mike's willingness to be a role model to Philip, are real enough. However, all of Frank Beardsley's three eldest sons, not Mike alone, played this role in the blended family. Likewise, all of Helen North's sons, not Philip alone, lionized Mike (and Rusty and Greg). The high mutual respect that the step-brothers developed for one another was one of the most important developments that knit the blended family into a functioning, harmonious whole. (In this regard, the petty jealousies between Frank's and Helen's children, as depicted in the film, are generally without foundation.)
• The one incident of mutual jealousy that did develop in real life--between the eldest of Frank's daughters and the eldest of Helen's daughters, between whom Helen had to mediate--was never depicted in the film.
• The children never objected to the massive cross-adoption by Frank and Helen of one another's biological children. The chief objectors fell into two groups: Richard North's brother and some of his other relatives, who objected to the "erasure" of Mr. North's name; and a large number of readers of a major magazine (which Helen Beardsley never named) who objected in principle to the adoption when that magazine mistakenly reported it as an accomplished fact. However, Frank and Helen ultimately ignored those objections in the face of more pressing and important consequences of their having married without initially adopting one another's children.

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• When Frank learns that Helen is pregnant (with Joseph John), he asks the catapult launch officer to stop the launch of the mail plane to permit him to board it. But that officer does not have that authority. In fact, the Air Boss is the lowest-ranking officer who can stop the launch of an aircraft, and normally he does not keep station on the flight deck at all.
• Frank is seen wearing a ship's ballcap, and then a combination cap. Neither sort of cap would be permitted, as they constitute a foreign object damage hazard. Furthermore, no one would be permitted on the flight deck during active flight operations without wearing helmet, goggles, and ear plugs.

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Background and production

That Lucille Ball would portray Helen Beardsley was never in doubt. But a long line of distinguished actors came under consideration, at one time or another, for the role of Frank Beardsley. They included Desi Arnaz, James Stewart, Fred MacMurray, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and John Wayne. Henry Fonda would finally accept, and indeed ask for, the role in a telephone conversation with Robert F. Blumofe in 1967. Miss Ball, who had worked with Fonda before in the 1942 release The Big Street, readily agreed to the casting.^[2] Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, glamour girl and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Heres Lucy. ... Desi Arnaz (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III) (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban American musician, actor and television producer. ... For other persons named James Stewart, see James Stewart (disambiguation). ... Fred MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an actor who appeared in over one hundred movies and a highly successful television series during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. ... Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. ... Arthur William Matthew Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American actor in film, stage, television, and radio. ... For other persons named John Wayne, see John Wayne (disambiguation). ... Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ...

One account says that Miss Ball recalled in 1961 that Desilu Productions first bought the rights to the Beardsley-North story in 1959, even before Helen Beardsley published her biography. This is highly unlikely, however, as Frank and Helen Beardsley married on September 6, 1961. Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Desilu logo, used in the 1960s. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

More likely is the story that Bob Carroll and his wife brought the story of the Beardsley family to Lucy's attention after reading it in a local newspaper.^[3] Mr. Carroll's memory must have been faulty, because he is said to recall his wife mentioning the story in 1960--again, a full year before the Beardsleys were married and probably when Dick North was still alive. Bob Carroll Jr. ...

In any event, Desilu Productions did secure the rights early on, and Mr. Carroll and Madelyn Pugh began at once to write a script. Madelyn Pugh was a television writer from the 1950s who helped create several of televisions most famous situations as a writer on I Love Lucy. ...

Production suffered multiple interruptions for a variety of reasons. It began in December of 1962 after Lucy's abortive attempt at a career on the Broadway stage. In 1963, production was halted after the box-office failure of Lucy's comedy effort Critic's Choice (with Bob Hope). Later, Lucy had a falling-out with Madelyn Pugh (then known as Madelyn Pugh Martin) and Bob Carroll, precisely because their script overly resembled an I Love Lucy television episode, and commissioned another writer (Leonard Spigelgass) to rewrite the script. Mr. Spigelgass does not seem to have succeeded in breaking free of Lucy's television work, so producer Robert Blumofe hired yet two more writers (Mickey Rudin and Bernie Weitzman) to make an attempt. This, too, failed, so Blumofe hired Melville Shavelson, who eventually directed. All further rewrite efforts came to an abrupt end at the insistence of United Artists, the film's eventual distributor. Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ... Critics Choice is a 1963 film directed by Don Weis. ... Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-Born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. ... American producer and screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass (1908 - 1985) got his start collaborating on the script of Erich Von Stroheims Hello Sister (1933). ... Melville Shavelson (b. ... This article is about the film studio. ...

At this point in the production cycle, Helen Beardsley's book Who Gets the Drumstick? was actually released (1965). Helen Beardsley nowhere states that anyone at Desilu Productions ever contacted her to discuss remuneration or even elementary fact-checking. Exactly how much the book informed the final shooting script is impossible to determine--although the book did receive an explicit "based on" credit in the opening titles. Helen Beardsley was the mother of the family inspiring Yours, Mine and Ours, played on film in 1968 by Lucille Ball and 2005 by Rene Russo. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...

Production began in 1967 with Henry Fonda definitely signed on to portray Frank. Mort Lachman, who had been one of Bob Hope's writers, joined the writing team at the recommendation of Shavelson. (Leonard Spigelgass did not receive any on-screen writing credit for his efforts in this film.) Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ... Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-Born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. ...

One thing that made production especially difficult was the condition of Lucy's face. Years of make-up had taken their toll, and Lucy was very much concerned about whether the cinematographer could light her face properly. The measures that the cinematographer and make-up crew took appear to have been successful, by all accounts. Cameraman redirects here. ...

Filming was done largely on-location in Alameda and San Francisco, California. This represents another departure from the truth, in that Frank Beardsley's home, to which the blended family eventually moved, was in Carmel. The total budget is estimated at $2,500,000 US, including $1,700,000 for actual filming and post-production. Nickname: Location in the state of California and Alameda County Coordinates: , Country State County Alameda Government  - Mayor Beverly Johnson (D) Area  - Total 23. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S state. ... “Carmel, California” redirects here. ...

Reception

The film received lukewarm critical reviews--although Leonard Maltin looked favorably upon it as a "wholesome, 'family' picture" with an excellent script. Leonard Maltin (born December 18, 1950 in New York City) is a widely known and respected American film critic. ...

It earned $17,000,000 US at the box office by January of 1970 and to date has earned $11,639,245 US in rentals. Thus it was the top-grossing film release by United Artists in its year. (Both figures are for U.S. only.) This came about probably on the strength of Lucille Ball's name and performance (which many of her fans regard as a classic). Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American...

Frank Beardsley commented that his family enjoyed the film as general entertainment, and acknowledged that perhaps the scriptwriters felt that their screenplay was "a better story" than the truth.^[4]

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The success of the movie partly inspired network approval of the television series The Brady Bunch (the original script for the series pilot was written well before this movie became a reality). The Brady Bunch is an American television situation comedy, based around a large blended family. ...

Among the child actors cast as the Beardsley and North children in the film, several went on to greater success, including Tim Matheson (billed here as Tim Matthieson), Morgan Brittany (billed here as Suzanne Cupito), and Tracy Nelson. Tim Matheson, an American actor, was born Timothy Lewis Matthieson on December 31, 1947, in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. ... Morgan Brittany (born December 5, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. ... Tracy Nelson is best known for playing the part of Sister Stevie (the sidekick of Father Dowling in the tv show of Father Dowling Mysteries) that starred Tom Bosley of Happy Days fame and the late Mary Wickes. ...

The actor who played Mike Beardsley, Tim Matheson, and the actress who played Colleen North, future soap opera actress Jennifer Leak, married in real life, although they later divorced. Tim Matheson, an American actor, was born Timothy Lewis Matthieson on December 31, 1947, in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. ... Jennifer Leak (born September 28, 1950 in Montreal, Canada) is a film and television actress. ...

Home video releases

DVD

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• Region 1
• Keep Case
• Full Frame - 1.33 (The original film was a widescreen release; this therefore constitutes a pan and scan.)
• Single Side - Single Layer (DVD-5)
• Audio:

• Dolby Digital Stereo - English
• Dolby Digital Stereo - French
• Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish

• Additional Release Material:

• Trailer

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Laserdisc

A Laserdisc release was made in 1994. This release features noise reduction applied to its soundtrack. Not to be confused with disk laser, a type of solid-state laser in a flat configuration. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ...

VHS

This film was released in VHS format under at least three known covers. After-market offerings do exist on the Internet, but this format is out of production today (February 2007). Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Awards and nominations

• Lucille Ball received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
• The film itself was a candidate for the Golden Globe Award for Best Musical or Comedy Picture of 1968.
• Lucille Ball won the Golden Laurel award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy. Henry Fonda placed third in the Golden Laurels for Best Male Performance in a Comedy.
• The film itself won the Golden Laurel for Best General Entertainment Film.
• Melville Shavelson and Mort Lachman received a nomination for the 1969 Writers Guild of America Award for Best-written American Comedy.

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, glamour girl and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Heres Lucy. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... The year 1968 in film involved some significant events. ... Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ... Melville Shavelson (b. ... The year 1969 in film involved some significant events. ... Annual awards given out by the Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievements in film, TV, or radio writing. ...

References

External links

• Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) at the Internet Movie Database
• Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) at Allmovie
• Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) at the TCM Movie Database
• "Official" site of the actual family of Frank and Helen Beardsley, a valuable reference that includes key differences between Helen Beardsley's biography and the films.
• Yours, Mine and Ours on GeoCities.