Rating: NR
Genre: Comedy Drama
Release Date: 03/06/2001
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: 1/5.1
Run Time: 111 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: MGM

This story is taken from the real-life marriage of two people in the early 1960s. Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a widow with eight children who falls in love with Naval officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda), a widower with ten children of his own. The two marry as comedy ensues from the sheer numbers and diverse age groups of the offspring. Narration is used in the first half of the film to help set the stage for the impending nuptials. Van Johnson is the mutual friend who brings the couple together. Tom Bosley plays the harried doctor who makes a house call and finds almost two dozen patients under one roof. The newlyweds are soon off to the hospital when Helen becomes pregnant with the couple's first child in this amusing family comedy.

~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Lucille Ball - Helen North
Henry Fonda - Frank Beardsley
Van Johnson - Darrel Harrison
Tom Bosley - Doctor
Louise Troy - Frank's Date
Jennifer Leak - Colleen North
Eric Shea - Phillip North
Ben Murphy - Larry
Nancy Roth - Rosemary Beardsley
Suzanne Cupito - Louise Beardsley
Maralee Foster - Mary Beardsley
Tracy Nelson - Germaine Beardsley
Stephanie Oliver - Joan Beardsley

Production:
Melville Shavelson - Director
Robert F. Blumofe - Producer
Fred Karlin - Composer
Stuart Gilmore - Editor
Melville Shavelson Mort Lachman - Screen Writer
James W. Payne - Set Designer
Arthur Lonergan - Art Director
Helen Beardsley - Book Author
Charles Wheeler - Cinematographer
Bill Phillips - Makeup
Fred Karlin - Musical Direction/Supervision
Arthur Lonergan - Production Designer
Madelyn Pugh-Davis - Screen Story
Bob Carroll, Jr. - Screen Story

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