Who Gets the Drumstick? The Story of the Beardsley Family

215 pp. Inspiration for 1968 film starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda (Yours, Mine and Ours), and a 2005 remake starring Rene Russo and Dennis Quaid. "Helen Eileen Beardsley was the mother of the famous blended family of twenty children — eight by her first marriage to Richard North, ten stepchildren from the first marriage of her second husband Frank Beardsley, and two that she and Frank had during their marriage. She wrote Who Gets the Drumstick? about her family's experience."