A Quick Look: YOURS, MINE, AND OURS (1968 - color)

   Another film in which Hollywood greats have more kids than they know what to do with, YOURS, MINE, AND OURS was a big hit with family audiences and comedy fans. Setting the stage for television's The Brady Bunch, the film finds widowed Lucille Ball falling for career Navy man Henry Fonda, each afraid to tell the other that they have numerous children from previous marriages. Navy know-how and motherly love combine to take charge of a household of over a dozen! It's domestic comedy done epic scale! This film came along near the end of Lucy's full-time career, and it's a high note. Fonda would have a few more shining achievements, but after this largely settled for character parts in films like MIDWAY and METEOR. YOURS, MINE, AND OURS, as well as the earlier CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, was recently remade.