Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)

Yours, Mine and Ours
Film poster by Frank Frazetta
Directed by	Melville Shavelson
Produced by	Robert F. Blumofe
Written by	Helen Beardsley (book) Bob Carroll Jr. (story) Madelyn Davis (story) Mort Lachman (screenplay) Melville Shavelson (screenplay)
Starring	Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda
Music by	Fred Karlin
Edited by	Stuart Gilmore
Production company	Desilu-Walden Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	April 24, 1968 (1968-04-24)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2.5 million
Box office	$25,912,624

Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film, directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson. Before its release, it had three other working titles: The Beardsley Story, Full House, and His, Hers, and Theirs.

It was based loosely on the story of Frank and Helen Beardsley, although Desilu Productions bought the rights to the story long before Helen's autobiographical book Who Gets the Drumstick? was released to bookstores. Screenwriters Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll wrote several I Love Lucy-style stunts that in most cases had no basis in the actual lives of the Beardsley family, before Melville Shavelson and Mort Lachman took over primary writing duties. The film was commercially successful, and even the Beardsleys themselves appreciated it.

Another film based on the same screenplay was released in 2005 with Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo as Frank and Helen Beardsley.

Frank Beardsley is a Navy Chief Warrant Officer, recently detached from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and assigned as project officer for the Fresnel lens glide-slope indicator, or "meatball," that would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers. Helen North is a civilian nurse working in the dispensary at NAS Alameda, the California U. S. Navy base to which Frank is assigned.