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Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1950 American comedy film based upon the autobiographical book Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The film and book describe growing up in a family with twelve children, in Montclair, New Jersey.
Cheaper by the Dozen: Directed by Walter Lang. With Clifton Webb, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Betty Lynn. Myrna Loy plays the wife of the persnickety father of her 12 children, Clifton Webb, who has uniquely humorous methods for dealing with the ordeals such an unwieldy family undoubtedly encounters.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Walter Lang
- 1950-04-05
This colorful depiction of life in a family of 12 children stars Clifton Webb as Frank Bunker Gilbreth, an eccentric father who prides himself on some truly unorthodox child-rearing methods. Based...
Based on the true story of the large Gilbreth family, this film follows Frank Gilbreth (Clifton Webb) and his wife, Lillian (Myrna Loy), as they raise their 12 children.
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- Clifton Webb
- Walter Lang
- Kids & Family, Comedy, Drama
Cheaper By The Dozen - (Black-and-white trailer) Clifton Webb stars as a pioneering efficiency expert who tests his theories on his large family in Cheaper By The Dozen (1950).
- Walter Lang
- Clifton Webb
Cheaper by the Dozen is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, published in 1948. The novel recounts the authors' childhood lives growing up in a household of 12 children.
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In 1921, when Ann is sixteen, the family lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where her father, an industrial engineer, is also an efficiency expert utilizing time and motion studies. Frank informs the family that they are moving to Montclair, New Jersey.
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