History Film / YoursMineAndOurs

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[[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere All of the other teens evacuate the house like hell]]]

Frank Beardsley (Fonda) is a U.S. 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" (which would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers). Helen North (Ball) is a nurse working in the dispensary at the California naval base to which Frank is assigned. Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the Navy base and again when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary. 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 their respective deceased spouses. The rest of the film follows their struggle to make their relationship (and subsequent marriage) work with that many children to consider, and how to keep such a large blended family functioning harmoniously.

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Frank Beardsley (Fonda) is a U.S. 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" (which would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers). Helen North (Ball) is a nurse working in the dispensary at the California U. S. Navy base to which Frank is assigned. Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the Navy base and again when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary. 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 their respective deceased spouses. The rest of the film follows their struggle to make their relationship (and subsequent marriage) work with that many children to consider, and how to keep such a large blended family functioning harmoniously.

* HollywoodPudgy: Susan is certainly not obese. She's really not that much bigger than her siblings are. Yet she is depicted as the FatGirl, always shown compulsively eating. Helen joyfully writes to Frank that Susan has cut back on her eating after meeting a boy. In the enclosed photo documenting her "progress," there is no visible difference.

—>Phillip: It had my name on it, all right.

* ButtMonkey: Phillip, in the latter half of the movie. In a scene about the blended family's morning routine, Phillip can't manage to get his hands on any of the breakfast foods heading around the table (forcing him to settle for an "oatmeal sandwich" on the go), can't squeeze the last of the toothpaste out of the bottle (though Mike helps him with this), and is the only one who can't find a pair of galoshes that fits him, causing him to stumble and finally land his stocking feet in the mud (fortunately, Mike rescues him again). Later, he gets into an argument with the teacher about his surname (legally it's still "North", but he wants to use "Beardsley"), culminating in a fight with another kid that gets him a black eye.

'''Boy:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments No, Doc, I'm fine.]]\\

'''Boy:''' Why would she... ''morning sickness?''

[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere All of the other teens evacuate the house like hell]]

[[ScrewThisIAmOuttaHere All of the other teens evacuate the house like hell]]

* WildTeenParty: The remake has the kids throwing one as part of the plot to break up their parents.

Helen and Frank Beardsley [[BasedOnATrueStory were in fact real people]]. The former wrote a book, ''Who Gets the Drumstick?'', about their blended family's experiences, which formed the basis for the film — though Desilu Productions bought the rights to their story long before the book was published.

Frank Beardsley (Fonda) 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" (which would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers). Helen North (Ball) is a nurse working in the dispensary at the California U. S. Navy base to which Frank is assigned. Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the Navy base and again when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary. 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 their respective deceased spouses. The rest of the film follows their struggle to make their relationship (and subsequent marriage) work with that many children to consider, and how to keep such a large blended family functioning harmoniously.

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''Yours, Mine, and Ours'' is a 1968 comedy starring Creator/LucilleBall and Creator/HenryFonda. 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" (which would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers). Helen North is a nurse working in the dispensary at the California U. S. Navy base to which Frank is assigned. Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the Navy base and again when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary. 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 their respective deceased spouses. The rest of the film follows their struggle to make their relationship (and subsequent marriage) work with that many children to consider, and how to keep such a large blended family functioning harmoniously.

In 2005, a remake was released starring Creator/DennisQuaid and Rene Russo as the parents.

* BabiesEverAfter: Astonishingly, one of the final subplots is Helen conceiving and giving birth to her 9th (and the family's 19th) child. Presumably the baby, being the first that Helen and Frank have together, is meant to represent the family's unitedness.

In 2005, a remake was released starring Creator/DennisQuaid and Rene Russo. This version received negative reviews.

** Frank's children, on the other hand, initially expect her to be a WickedStepmother, and some take longer than others to stop treating her like one. One of the little girls thinks that she has "mean eyes".

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In 2005, a remake was released starring Creator/DennisQuaid and Rene Russo. The it got mixed to negative reviews.

In 2005, a remake was released starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo. The it got mixed to negative reviews.