“Yours, Mine and Ours” (1968) starring Lucy will be on PBS (NYC) tonight at 9pm

Tim Matheson look good in that film

The one time Gary told me to do it and it turned out well!

A fifty seven year old Lucy plays a pregnant woman in her thirties…lol

Love the movie!

Much better than "The Big Street," the turkey Ball and Fonda did together 25 years earlier...

This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. The scenes where the kids get Lucy drunk are really funny

R6 I may have been hormonal at the time, but I found that scene to be sad.

Even though she cried for only a a few seconds, I thought Lucy did a great job of showing her character’s profound disappointment in bungling her first meeting with his children

How did anyone buy 57 year old Lucy as a young mother still capable of childbearing?

It's hard to think of two less appealing stepparents than the aging Fonda and Ball.

Lucy was way too old and NOBODY CARED!

My family all love this movie and we loved Lucy in it and we don't give a shit she's the oldest woman to ever give birth one bit!

They’ve all done it r8. All of the film divas have played parts they were clearly too old for.

My mother owned this movie and loved it. I never stopped to watch it.

I first saw it when I was 16 (when it was released) and I liked it OK, but thought it was pretty corny. I've seen it many times since then even though I still think it's corny.

Yeah, she was way too old, but this movie just never gets old.

But playing a pregnant woman at 57, R11? That's absurd. And Lucy was a household name, and was famous for being preganant a full 15 years earlier at age 42. I just don't understand how audiences could accept a 57 year old actress playing a pregnant woman without commenting on it.

R1 Tim has a brief shirtless scene in this film.

WAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

R16 I remember that scene! He was quite the hottie

My favorite line is the teen girl telling Henry Fonda he doesn't know what sex is and him referencing an erotica written in the 1700s

Tim looks like a succulent Crispin Glover in that pic.

Because Lucy was 57 r15. The character wasn’t. It’s called ACTING.

Yeah, Lucy was at least 12-15 years too old for that role.

Watch the scene where the kids get her drunk. She's great in it! I love this movie.

"Not anticipating the huge box office returns from the movie, Lucille Ball failed to make appropriate tax shelter and thus saw most of her share going to pay taxes."

[quote]And Lucy was a household name, and was famous for being pregnant a full 15 years earlier at age 42.

I'm not sure everyone knew or realized that Lucy was that old back when she gave birth on the show (and in real life). I think they assumed she was a bit younger. Lucy Ricardo was almost a decade younger than Lucille Ball.

Wasn't Suzanne Crough, who played the forever silent Tracy on "The Partridge Family," one of the smaller children?

I was always so surprised this fed into this big fantasy other people had that if you were in a family that big you would always have someone to play with. i always saw it instead as a family so big there would not be enough money to send you to college and your mother would forget your name after a while.

I have a friend from a family of 11 kids. She told me she once bet her Dad that he couldn't remember her middle name, and he said, "Hell, I can't even remember your first name."

This film was a triumph for Lucy and proof positive that she was still dynamite at the box-office. Her gifts as an actress erased any questions of her real-life age when making the film, as she 'became' Helen North Beardsley, she never has a false moment in the entire film and I felt that I could feel her dilating when her character goes into labor. Ironically, she turned down Mrs. Robinson in the graduate to do this film, which while from a career point of view made sense (Yours, Mine and Ours was a box office sensation), in terms of improving her legacy as one of the great actresses of our time, it might not have been the best choice. The guidance Lucy received from those around her at this point in her career was not always most astute, in terms of her legacy, as she also turned down Julie Christie's part in Don't Look Now, Nurse Ratched in Cukoo's Nest, Faye Dunaway's role in The Champ, and of course, the Angie Dickinson role in Dressed to Kill and instead chose more commercial fare that doesn't stand the test of time. Really from the latter part of her career, only Mame holds up and that is after it received negative reviews upon its release. But much like The Night of the Hunter, Mame has been rediscovered by a new generation and cinephiles of all ages are in agreement that it is a forgotten treasure.

I don’t think Suzanne Crough was in the movie, R26, but Tracy Nelson (daughter of Ricky) played one of the toddlers.

R3, Arlene Francis was 56 when she played a pregnant woman in “The Thrill of it All” in 1963.

R28, Lucy also turned down Maria Schneider‘s role in “Last Tango in Paris”.

That movie always creeped the fuck out of me. I mean I never liked Henry Fonda because he has the chilliest aura ever, and by that point in her career Lucy had stopped bearing any resemblance to a human being, with her heavy makeup and vaseline on the lens. Why did she think that making herself up like a Beverly Hills Gorgon, and sharing the screen with a dozen teen girls who are wearing no makeup would work?

It was also clear that all the kids were being shoved into a house together, and were expected to grow up with parents who didn't remember their names or ages, and who weren't going to give one minute's help to any kid who wanted a higher education. And that the parents weren't about to notice if any of the kids were unhappy with the new arrangement, hell, they probably wouldn't have noticed if some of the stepsiblings killed a few of the others.

Colleen Dewhurst was 55 when she played the 46 year-old woman unexpectedly popping out another brat in "And Baby Makes Six".

How old were Bea Arthur and Sada Thompson when their characters became pregnant on their respective shows?

I am female - in the late 80s I used to work a lot of awards shows - I would ba assigned an actor and get their blocking and basically take them where they needed to be and wait for them offstage or in the green room to take them to the next place. In 1987? 88? I was at the American Comedy Awards and I was escorting/ handling Jack Lemmon (He kept wandering away!) …. I was in a dress with spaghetti straps and my arms were covered with goose bumps and I was waiting for Jack Lemmon. Suddenly someone was vigorously rubbing my bare arms like you would warm up a little kid - I turned around - it was LUCY!!!! My legs almost buckled under me - she said “Look at those GOOSEBUMPS!!” - it was just like LUCY. I thanked her and noticed that no one was with her or talking to her - it was like she sidled up to me because she was a little unsure . I said I couldn’t let it go by - she meant the world to me - she had given me hours of company and pleasure over the years - and she just said oh thank you - then I said my favorite movie was Yours, Mine and Ours and I loved the Lazy Susan scene. - Well - you guys - SHE TEARED UP - shook her head and chuckled - “Oh Boy! I haven’t thought about that in years!” Then she stood there kind of remembering to herself and laughed and said “Boy that was a FUN one! Boy, that was.fun! …. Thank you, Dear - you made me remember we something really nice” at that point someone came and hustled her away. Thank God she was LUCY and not one of the awful stories I had heard. It meant the world to me!

[quote]Arlene Francis was 56 when she played a pregnant woman in “The Thrill of it All” in 1963.

I guess there was nothing available in the legitimate theatre at the time.

Very cute story, R35, you don’t always hear nice stories about Lucy.

R33, I found And Baby Makes Six on YouTube and don’t know what’s less believable: believing that a woman with Colleen Dewhurst’s whiskey-soaked, eight-pack-a-day, post-menopausal rasp is capable of getting pregnant, or believing a woman with that voice is an enthusiastic jogger who scales the hills of San Francisco like a mountain goat.

All or these that complain about a celebrity being impatient, a bitch, a dick, a jerk or a cunt make me laugh. Everyone on DL is all of those things and we're not even famous or hounded by the press or fans. Well most of you that is. My fans seem to find me even in my dotage.

I have the Blu-ray signed by Tim Matheson. We talked about working with Lucy and Fonda. He said Lucy was kind but firm making sure the kids were professional on set. Nice words about Fonda too.

R28, you playin‘ us?

I think part of the reason it worked for Lucy to be pregnant at 57 in that movie was because “I LOVE LUCY” was in syndication 7 days a week back then - Lucy pregnant or “enciente” was something people saw all of CNN the time. Plus, it was aimed at families and they didn’t want kids over thing the sex angle of all of those kids. The real family was very Catholic so that was the reason for the kids. I think that the movie have a little wink when Fonda told Lucy to pick out a present for herself and the statue she picked out turned out to be an ancient Fertility Goddess. I think that Lucy and Henry Fonda make a romantic couple in this move - especially the location scenes showing them dating. …… Another favorite of mine is “With Six You Get Egg Roll” - Doris Day and Brian Keith had great chemistry, too.

In the real life family the father was abusive.

I have NO IDEA where CNN came from!!!!^

It's very...white.

And it wasn't a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film film, but labeled that way b/c MGM must've consolidated this United Artists-distributed movie.

I think the "drunk Lucy" family dinner scene is way overrated. It's not original IMO, it's just Lucille Ball doing one of her inebriated-Lucy-Ricardo sketches but in a threatrical film.

Fonda was kind of hot in this one. I also always liked the blonde son who was one of the aliens in the "Lost In Space" TV show Season 3 1968 episode where Will, Penny and Dr. Smith got their hippie groovy dancing thing on. :)

Pretty harmless stuff.

I think the film's success had maybe less to do with any brilliance about it or Lucille's box-office excellence, and instead with its place amongst whatever quality family fare (or, relative lack thereof?) there was that was showing in theatres at the time.

I like Henry Fonda a lot. Much better actor than his annoying spawn who cries about him being a big meanie (in other terms, an extremely typical man of his generation) whenever she gets the chance. Very good looking man too, especially when young. Jane looked like his carbon copy before the surgeries.

That being said, his rapport with Lucy was odd here. A bit mismatched?

According to both Jane Fonda and Lucie Arnaz, Henry Fonda and Lucy dated a bit in the late 1930s. Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers and Fonda & Lucy double dated. Lucy and Henry Fonda made a movie “Big Street” back then. ….. the two leading men I really enjoy with Lucy on screen are Henry Fonda and Bob Hope. In the years after her divorce from Desi - she got so bossy and ballsy. I think Bob Hope and Henry Fonda had the star power and self confidence to not let her boss them around. I think that Lucy and Henry Fonda look great together in this movie - when they are out walking around seeing the the sights - they both look tall and trim and have nice long legs.

Eric Shea from The Poseidon Adventure was great as Phillip. He had really comic timing for a little kid.

His brother was Linus in some of the early Charlie Brown cartoons.

R47, Both Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda admitted in interviews that they were once romantically involved.

[quote]He had really comic timing for a little kid

He did.

R5. Actually, “The Big Street” is pretty good and has the added bonus of Lucy dying at the end.

Henry Fonda also dated a very young Bette Davis, who thought if he kissed her, they were engaged.

Wasn’t Bette a virgin until age 26?

Bette was a 24 year old virgin when she married Ham Nelson. Then she became a slut. Bette had so many abortions she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to carry a child to term. I'm sure later on she regretted not aborting BD.

Too bad she kept BD and not the others.

R54= Joan Crawford and R55 = Bette Davis

I agree R44 they should’ve cast trans women of color to play the kids.

Tim Matheson entered the Twink Hall of Fame in this film.

My mom had a good friend who merged families Brady Bunch style. The kids started sleeping with each other. Two got married and the son had an affair with the nanny. Was cast out of the family.

So, um, don’t think Lucy and Henry’s family would have fared much better. Too bad there wasn’t a sequel!

"A fifty seven year old Lucy plays a pregnant woman in her thirties…lol"

She simply postponed planning her family until she was in a good place careerwise.

R59 stupid comment.

[quote]R32 That movie always creeped the fuck out of me.

The actual family it’s based on, the Beardsley/Norths, was sad. One of the kids wrote their own book,

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[italic][bold]”Yours, Mine and Ours” child shares a darker version of his all-American family[/bold]… Tom North’s autobiographical book, “True North: The Shocking Truth About Yours, Mine and Ours,” depicts the real Frank Beardsley as a violent, wild-eyed tyrant who abused his children physically, emotionally and sexually, and paints North”s mother, Helen, as a woman so image-conscious that she became complicit in her children”s nightmare.

That was awful, r62. Interesting that Lucy disliked the dad.

[quote][italic]Lucille Ball, the iconic comedienne of “I Love Lucy” fame, visited the Beardsleys’ large Carmel home on Rio Road for several days in advance of the shoot to get a feel for the family, and, according to son Tom North, apparently sensed something wasn’t quite right with the family she had expected to meet.

[quote]”At the end of Lucy”s first day, she approached my mother and in a serious, almost-threatening tone, admonished her, ‘You keep that man (Frank Beardsley) away from me.’ She left and stayed at The Lodge in Pebble Beach for the duration of her visit,” Tom North wrote in his book.

R8- In 1967/68 that was absurd but today women considerably older than her have give birth to kids successfully.

How the Hell hasn't this been a musical by now?

Speaking of musicals, its a shame Lucy wasn't considered for HELLO, DOLLY! She would have been perfect.

Streisand had already been signed to the film when YOURS, MNINE AND OURS was released, but if the roles had still been available, Lucy would have been a top contender.

I don't think modern audiences would be charmed by the story of two ultra-Catholic natalists who found love.

[quote]Despite the disclaimer from the Beardsley siblings, North says he has no regrets. “I couldn”t have expected them to say anything else. In fact, I thought it was relatively kind and courteous,” he said of the Beardsley statement about his book. “I”ve had no interaction at all with the Beardsley side of our family since the book came out, but I spoke with two of their cousins — Frank”s nieces — who told me they”d always run and hide when ”Uncle Frank” came to visit because he creeped them out so bad. They also thanked me and said, ”What you are doing is giving us a voice we never had.””

Fucked up family. I would hate that woman if she was my mother.

[quote]Speaking of musicals, its a shame Lucy wasn't considered for HELLO, DOLLY! She would have been perfect.

You think she would've been better than Walter Matthau?

The character of “Sharon” on EastEnders miraculously gave birth to a child at the beginning of 2000 at age 50!!

[quote] It's very...white.

You were somehow expecting Lucy's character would get married to Paul Robeson, and they would all live together with their eighteen children in Watts? How realistic would that have been?

Two monster parents in real life.

Damn. People had a lot of kids back then.

Details, R74.

Lucy as parent.

Fonda

OH, I thought you meant the real parents of 27 kids, who got stuck in a huge blended family where the kids were lucky to have anyone remember their name!

They seemed like good bets for monsters.

The father was a beast and the mother was compliant

Beardsley!

North!

I remember during the darkest days of my parents marriage. Even though I was terrified of them splitting up, I knew that it would be the best thing for all of us. But Mom never got the courage. She had never been alone in her life and my grandparents loved me and my brother, they didn’t want the burden of two school age children living in their home during their retirement years. And Mom was terrified of being alone. So, she never left. We all stayed home and dealt with Dad’s booze binges and temper tantrums, leaving scars that still remain unhealed.

Even after we were adults she stayed with Dad until he dropped dead from an alcohol induced heart attack at 51.

I know something about what Mr. North and his siblings felt.

[quote]But much like The Night of the Hunter, Mame has been rediscovered by a new generation and cinephiles of all ages are in agreement that it is a forgotten treasure.

I can't decide whether this is satire or someone posting from an alternative dimension.

[quote]Speaking of musicals, its a shame Lucy wasn't considered for HELLO, DOLLY! She would have been perfect.

Perfect aside from having to get Harvey Fierstein to dub her songs.

Barbra Streisand, 81, wants to know - if a 57 year old Lucy can be believably pregnant in this film, why is she (Barbra) having so much trouble getting 'Gypsy' in front of the cameras ?

Because people don’t like Barbra…

[quote]Two monster parents in real life.

Knowing that colors my thinking of the movie, r74, and I don't watch it anymore.

Henry was about twenty years too old for his part as well…

Henry may have been 20-30years older than the real person he was playing, but it's hardly impossible for his character to have a lot of children, even if he is in in his 60s. If a religious man has a "misspent" youth, or concentrates on his career and holds off on marrying until he's in a position to support a large family, it's possible that he wouldn't marry until he's forty. And then he'd marry someone younger, and expect her to keep all the kids out of his hair, and then probe to be a terrible father when forced into single parenthood. The kids were never supposed to be his problem!

And BTW, you might be amused to hear that as an explanation as to why a Catholic church music director was pushing sixty and unmarried, even though a younger woman clearly saw him as husband material. "Oh, he's much too by-the-book to use birth control, he's afraid that if he marries Rosie he'll be stuck with 15 children". Uh-huh!

You also have to understand that you're looking at them with contemporary eyes and in retrospect. Lucille and Henry had never been away from the screen(s) since their careers began. Their ageing was so gradual to their audiences so they didn't seem too old for those roles at the time.

This is the worst fucking piece of shit they ever squeezed out.

Thank you for sharing, r92.

[quote]“Yours, Mine and Ours”

Are those their pronouns?

No love for Van Johnson?

[quote]No love for Van Johnson?

I wouldn't say that.

When I was kid we went to see a taping of David Frost's show in NY. Van Johnson was the guest and my Mom was a huge movie fan (I got her entertainment gene) and loved him. I only knew him from "Yours, Mine And Ours". After the show my Mom got to meet him and he treated her like she was the only person in the world. They talked at least fifteen minutes about Hollywood and his pictures and it ended with him giving her a big hug. Have nothing but respect for him since. That was when we had real movie stars.

"Frank Beardsley died in 2012 at age 97."

Why do evil people live so long?

R98, Henry Kissinger turns 100 in May.

R97 Thank you for sharing that neat story about Van Johnson and your mom!! …. Seeing Van and Lucy in this movie makes me think of one of my favorite Lucy episodes - “I like New York in June”

Lucy and the dancing star

Saw THE BIG STREET today. I was impressed by both of the lead performers.

Not a sympathetic role for her, r102.

R103, Not even by her character dying?

Well sure, r104, but she...dies.

Speaking of Van Johnson, I watched the film Battleground the other day (directed by the wonderful William Wellman) and was shocked that Wellman managed to somehow bully a decent performance out of that MGM cardboard queen.

also starring Suzanne Cupito as little Louise

I thought that Van Johnson did a good job in The Caine Mutiny. …… I thought he looked handsome out by the pool with June Havoc in some of Lucy and Desi’s old color home movies.

[quote]I thought he looked handsome out by the pool with June Havoc in some of Lucy and Desi’s old color home movies.

Interesting that this post was immediately preceded by one with a photo of Morgan Brittany, who, billed as Suzanne Cupito, played Baby June Havoc in the movie of "Gypsy." Dainty June Havoc was played by DL fave Ann Jillian.

R109 that’s right! Is it six degrees to Van Johnson?

R109. They BOTH played June, at different ages

Oops sorry R109 I misread your post ignore me

Morgan Brittany was also pecked in "The Birds". I love watching those little bastards get pecked by the birds.