Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)

  • Lucille Ball: Helen North Beardsley
  • Henry Fonda: Frank Beardsley
  • Van Johnson: Warrant Officer Darrel Harrison
  • Louise Troy: Madeleine Love
  • Sidney Miller: Dr. Ashford
  • Tom Bosley: doctor of the family
  • Nancy Howard Nancy Beardsley
  • Walter Brooke: Howard Beardsley
  • Tim Matheson: Mike Beardsley
  • Gil Rogers: Rusty Beardsley
  • Nancy Roth: Rosemary Beardsley
  • Gary Goetzman: Greg Beardsley
  • Morgan Brittany: Louise Beardsley
  • Holly O'Brien: Susan Beardsley
  • Michele Tobin: Veronica Beardsley

Yours, Mine and Ours ( Original Title: Yours, Mine and Ours ) is an American comedy film from 1968 directed by Melville Shavelson, who also wrote the screenplay with Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Davis and Mort Lachman. .

Action

The widowed officer of the United States Navy Frank Beardsley has eight children. It is published by an aircraft carrier to a base where he meets the widowed nurse Helen North also, which has ten children. Frank and Helen to marry, to which the actions of Darrel Harrison contribute, which they regarded as a matching pair.

The children of the two try to destroy the relationship. You mix a cocktail for Helen, after its consumption it behaves strangely. Frank forces the culprit to apologize. Then he announces the upcoming wedding.

To ensure that all children have the same name, Frank adopted the children of his wife, who in turn adopted his children. Helen gets pregnant, and the birth of another child reconciles his siblings. In the end, reports Mike Beardsley, the eldest son Frank, the United States Marine Corps.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on May 24, 1968 the comedy involved no social criticism. It was a " really amusing family film " and entertain on a "nice " way ( "as a genuinely amusing family movie, it will do nicely "). Lucille Ball was a master of visual gags.

Movie service wrote that the film was a " hand- seasoned " and " sedate developed family comedy based on a quick happy ending " targets. You hide " behind the innocuous at first glance and unrealistic fable " the " more than conservative ideology that fathers and sons serve his country as a soldier, while mothers and daughters for emotional balance and the over - rich offspring have to worry ".

Awards

The film for Best Picture - Musical or Comedy and Lucille Ball as Best Actress - Comedy or Musical were nominated in 1969 for a Golden Globe Award. Lucille Ball and the film for Best entertainment film received the Laurel Award in 1968; Henry Fonda won third place in the underlying survey. The writers were nominated for the 1969 Writers Guild of America Award.

Background

The film was shot in Alameda (California ) and San Francisco. Its production costs amounted to an estimated 2.5 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA a about 17 million U.S. dollars. The plot was remade in 2005 as yours, My & Our starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo.

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