Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Jennifer Leak: Colleen North

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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!

• 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.

• Helen North : [getting ready for her date with Frank]  Good heavens! What did you do to this dress?

  Colleen North : Oh, Mother, it was practically an antique!

  Janette North : We just shortened it a little.

  Helen North : A little? I look like a teeny-bopper!

  Janette North : What's wrong with that?

  Helen North : I can't go out like this!

  Jean North : Why not? Your legs are better than mine.

• Jean North : You mean he doesn't know about us?

  Helen North : Well, of course he does, darling!

  Jean North : All of us?

  Colleen North : Oh, Mother, that's so romantic! You lied to him!

  Helen North : I did not lie to him! I just didn't have the nerve to tell him the whole truth!

  Colleen North : Mmm, I understand! No man wants a liaison with a woman with eight children!

  Janette North : What's a liaison?

  Colleen North : An affair.

  Janette North : That's what I thought.

  Jean North : Me too.