Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Henry Fonda: Frank Beardsley

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• Colleen North : [as Helen is leaving for the hospital, about to have a baby]  I know this is a terrible time to talk about it, but Larry says...

  Frank Beardsley : I've got a message for Larry! You tell him *this* is what it's all about. This is the real happening. If you want to know what love really is, take a look around you.

  Helen North : What are you two talking about?

  Frank Beardsley : Take a good look at your mother.

  Helen North : Not now!

  Frank Beardsley : Yes, now.

  Frank Beardsley : [to Colleen]  It's giving life that counts. Until you're ready for it, all the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy haircuts in the world won't keep it turning. Life isn't a love-in - it's the dishes, and the orthodontist, and the shoe repairman, and... ground round instead of roast beef. And I'll tell you something else: It isn't going to a bed with a man that proves you're in love with him; it's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful everyday world with him that counts!

  [leaving the house, they say good-bye to the little kids] 

  Frank Beardsley : I suppose having nineteen kids is carrying it a bit too far - but if we had it to do over, who would we skip? You?

  Helen North : [getting into the car]  Thank you, Frank. I never quite knew how to explain it to her.

  Frank Beardsley : If we don't get you to the hospital fast, the rest of it's gonna be explained right here!

• Frank Beardsley : [narrating]  It was a typical wedding: enemies of the bride on the right, enemies of the groom on the left.

• Frank Beardsley : We've decided to use our company manners. Helen, the boys have something to say to you.

  Greg Beardsley : Mrs. North, I apologize for putting all that gin in your drink.

  Helen North : Ooh, *that's* what did it.

  Rusty Beardsley : And I apologize for all that vodka.

  Mike Beardsley : And I apologize for the scotch.

  Helen North : Scotch, vodka, and - ?

  Frank Beardsley : Helen, you've been the victim of an alcoholic Pearl Harbor. It's amazing you survived at all.

• Colleen North : Larry says he'll never speak to me again unless I grow up. He says that I'm being ridiculous and I don't love him, but I do love him. Am I being ridiculous?

  Frank Beardsley : You're not being ridiculous.

  Colleen North : Well, do all the other girls, like Larry says? And am I just being old-fashioned?

  Frank Beardsley : The same idiots were passing the same rumors when I was your age, but if all the girls did, how come I always ended up with the ones who didn't?

  Colleen North : But it's all different now!

  Frank Beardsley : I don't know, they wrote Fanny Hill in 1742 and they haven't found anything new since.

  Veronica Beardsley : Who's Fanny Hill?

  Frank Beardsley : Go to bed, that's who Fanny Hill is.

• Frank Beardsley : I don't quite understand. Am I being stupid?

  Helen North : No, you're being a man. Which is sometimes the same thing.

• Frank Beardsley : Is that all? Why didn't she tell me?

  Helen North : Because you would have said, "Is that all?".

• Frank Beardsley : [narrating why his ten kids resent him]  Truthfully, I think they blamed me for neglecting their mother all those years. But there seemed to me that there was enough physical evidence I hadn't neglected her completely!

• Family Doctor : Call my wife, will you, and tell her I'm on my way home?

  [beat] 

  Family Doctor : And tell her thank you.

  Frank Beardsley : For what?

  Family Doctor : We don't have any children.

• Helen North : Frank, there's something I have to tell you before we go any further. I have eight children.

  [sudden panic] 

  Helen North : Frank! We're on a cable car!

  Frank Beardsley : Of course.

  Helen North : I get sick on cable cars!

  Frank Beardsley : Well wait'll you hear what I have to tell you. I have TEN children.

  Helen North : Ten. TEN? Frank! Eight and ten is...

  Frank Beardsley : Ridiculous.

• Helen North : That was a wonderful dinner, I enjoyed all *eight* courses.

  Frank Beardsley : So did I.

  Helen North : And speaking of children...

  Frank Beardsley : We weren't speaking of children.

  Helen North : We weren't? Oh thank goodness.

• Frank Beardsley : This is the last time I'm going to bring it up but... you do like children, don't you?

  Helen North : Yeah, within reason.

  Frank Beardsley : In that case, the hell with it.

• Frank Beardsley : [going out]  Mike, see that it's lights out by ten o'clock.

  Rosemary Beardsley : Ten o'clock! Are we back in kindergarten?

  Louise Beardsley : They stay up later in prison!

  Frank Beardsley : Would you like to move?

• Helen North : Now that's just wonderful! And where was Veronica born?

  Frank Beardsley : In Japan!

  [Helen repeats] 

  Frank Beardsley : In Japan?

  Frank Beardsley : I call her my little fortune cookie 'cause she came right after dinner!

  Helen North : [Helen begins to laugh loudly]  That's funny!

  [ring bells in the kitchen] 

  Helen North : Where's the fire?

  Rosemary Beardsley : Dinner is served!

• Frank Beardsley : It's giving life that counts. Till you're ready for it, the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy haircuts in the world won't keep it turning. Life isn't a love-in, it's the dishes and the orthodontist... and the shoe repairman... and ground round instead of roast beef. I'll tell you something else. Going to bed with a man doesn't prove your love. It's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable... wonderful everyday world with him that counts.