Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

I remember being bored out of my mind when I saw this as a kid. Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball at the time seemed more like grandparents than parents. It was impossible to believe Ball was supposed to be pre-menopause.

She was playing the mother of middle school kids up into her 50s (Critic's Choice, etc.).

It was pure vanity for Lucille to play someone who could still get pregnant.

Was this a rip-off of "With Six You Get Eggroll" or vice versa?

I really love seeing San Francisco in the late 1960's.

This movie really showcased the city in a beautiful way.

The real-life equivalent of Henry Fonda’s character was a monster who abused his children.

Ok, who’s the fucking Lucy troll? PMBT, is that you?

Lucy Mame.

The mid-2000s remake of this starred a young and gorgeous Sean Faris, as well as a now-disgraced teen heartthrob Drake Bell.

The movie came about in response to the critical success of the YM&O remake CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN with Steve Martin, which came out a couple of years prior.

Except for "Once Upon a Time in the West," Henry Fonda always got the dullest roles in the 1960s.

This film was at least more interesting than "Spencer's Mountain" and "The Longest Day" and "Advise and Consent." In the latter, he even got to play a secret Commie pinko whose nomination as Secretary of State was the fulcrum of the entire plot, but they gave him nothing to do.

The box office success of this movie is likely why Warner Bros. thought she could handle [italic]Mame[/italic]. Except they failed to take into account that this movie is not a musical.

Did Henry Fonda have a problem with homosexualist Van Johnson, playing his best friend in the movie?

Has it started yet?

They were stoned in r8’s video.

[quote] Has it started yet?

What part of "6pm Eastern, 3 pm Pacific" do you not understand?

Lol R14.

SORRY!

Goddamn, some people here...

Tim Matheson!

There was no way in hell Lucy was believable as the (biological) mother of young children at this stage in her life. And Fonda looked like a great-grandfather.

This is with that annoying little kid from "The Poseidon Adventure" who screams out his lines. No thanks.

[quote] Was this a rip-off of "With Six You Get Eggroll" or vice versa?

Vice versa.

Tim Matheson was so delicious in that movie. He's practically the only reason I always watch it on TCM.

Fonda is one of those people who always looked old to me, even when he was young

Rofl R18!

That kid is annoying as fuck!

I'm so glad the Nun punched him in the eye!

Did Van Johnson get to taste Tim Matheson's cock?

A young hot Ben Murphy is in it, as well.

Well that was entertaining.

I actually laughed when Lucy got drunk, and dumped mashed potatoes and milk all over the little girl!

When she started cracking up, so did I. Lol

It would have been hot if Ben Murphy and Tim Mathieson had gotten into a fist fight that evolved into a hot make-out session, with each of them tearing off the other's shirt, then pants. Murphy would have bottomed, of course, with Tim as the angry top. The cute blond teen who played Mathieson's younger brother would have jacked off furiously watching the two of them go at it.

[quote] I actually laughed when Lucy got drunk, and dumped mashed potatoes and milk all over the little girl!

At least it wasn't hot coffee.

I loved seeing Tim Matheson’s bare ass in Animal House.

Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball. Now THERE'S charisma.

The only time that Lucy was convincing in this role of Helen North-Beardsley, was when she was playing a drunk off her ass lush.

YMAO is playing right now on TCM, if anyone is interested.

North!

Beardsley!

It's on again tonight at 12:15 ET / 9:15 PT.

Do they play this movie every week?

Your Irish coffee is winking at me.

R32- For those queens who have Amazon Prime it's available for free- I just checked.

Saw this with my parents when it was first released. Lucy has a great bit where Fonda’s kids get her drunk and she makes a fool of herself at the dinner table. Van Johnson has some funny lines. Tim Matheson (who played Van’s role in the remake) is cute.

I've often thought that if Lucy had used this as a tv format, instead of Here's Lucy, it would've been a hit and changed the direction of her tv comedy, which could've then saved her the later embarrassment of Life With Lucy. However, we probably wouldn't have the Brady Bunch, as a result.

R3, R19 already answered your question but interesting to note that YMAO was based on a book titled Who gets the Drumstick? and seems to have inspired the Brady Bunch.

R3 Lucy was 57 in 1968 late life pregnancy is not unheard of.

Lucy was born in 1911???

Damn.

and Fonda b.1905

I don’t understand why Henry Fonda was a movie star - the most boring actor I’ve ever watched. Every movie he made is boring and he fits right in.

I'm watching Yours,Mine And Ours right now on Amazon Prime for free- JEALOUS BITCHES?!

Yes R42 I couldn't make it through the opening credits with that dreadful tune.

She was so frigid I had to slip her a mickey that knocked her out to get some pussy. Otherwise we would never have had kids.

The real-life guy that Henry Fonda plays was apparently a drunken sadist who abused all the kids physically, mentally, and sexually. Several years ago one of the North kids wrote a book detailing life in what was apparently a house of horrors.

Kind of soured me on the movie.

R45- He sounds just like Bing Crosby.

Sounds like a party, R45!

R38 - a woman at almost 60 getting pregnant? Yeah, no.

[quote] a woman at almost 60 getting pregnant? Yeah, no.

Daryl Hannah just got pregnant at 61.

It 'aint over, 'til it's over.

R48- A woman at57 getting pregnant in 1967- NO WAY

A woman at 57 getting pregnant today- Quite possible

Pretty sure that's not true, R49.

Jennifer Leak went on to play crazy Olive on Another World. She was married to Mathison IRL.

R48 R50 Ball was 57 but that doesn't mean the character she was playing was supposed to be 57. Angela Lansbury was 3 years older than Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate when she played his mother even though there's no known 3-year-old who gave birth. 72 is the oldest recorded age for a birth mother.

Maybe she was playing younger, but like somebody else said, Lucy and Fonda looked like grandparents, not parents of a newborn. Even in 1967.

R54- In real life Lucille Balls kids WERE teenagers. When her son was born she was 41 years old which is nothing today but in 1952 that was ANCIENT.

What does that have to do with Lucy playing a character giving birth? Yeah, she looks like she could be the mother of teenagers here, but not a baby.

As a kid, I thought it was great! I wouldn't watch it again.

57 might have been pushing it, but surprise change of life pregnancies used to be quite common before widespread birth control was available. There are at least two women in the small community I grew up in who had their last children in their fifties in the late 60s/early 70s.

Lucy, along with the kids on Ed Sullivan. I think she actually enjoyed performing with them.

Lucy belonged in the Miscasting Hall of Fame for this one! Not just because she's far too old to have all those young kids, but because she looked like she was in a totally different movie than the kids.

She's so Old Hollywood here, trying desperately for the vaseline-on-the-lens old school glamour that made Joan Crawford's later films such guilty pleasures, and she has a totally artificial look and affect... and the kids look like they wandered in off the streets of 1948. She looks like she belongs to a different species than the girls who play her daughters, with their makeup-free faces, stringy hair, and regular-kid bad posture.